Emerging India : Security and Foreign Policy Perspective

Contents Emerging India Security and foreign policy perspective/Arun Prakash. I. India and the security calculus 1. Strategic culture a military perspective/V.R. Raghavan. 2. Rethinking India's grand strategy/C. Raja Mohan. 3. Foreign policy imperatives for a post nuclear India/Lalit Mansingh. II. Military strategy technology and defense industry 1. India's future plans and defence requirements/Bharat Karnad. 2. Aerospace challenges for India/Jasjit Singh. 3. Yesterday today and tomorrow trends in the Indian Army's force structure and doctrine/Vijay Oberoi. 4. Future of Indian defence industry/Deba R. Mohanty. 5. India's defence expenditure a historical perspective/Pravin Joshi. III. India and the external powers 1. Overcoming the US India non proliferation divide/Raja Menon. 2. India and Russia/Nirmala Joshi. 3. India and Eu/Ummu Salma Bava. IV. India and Asia (Part I East West and Central Asia) 1. Indian ocean in India's security calculus/G.S. Khurana. 2. Looking east India and the Asia Pacific/G.V.C. Naidu. 3. India and central Asia policy review and projecting into future (2005 2005)/Jyotsna Bakshi. 4. Imperatives of Indian policy in West Asia/M. Hamid Ansari. V. India and Asia (Part II South Asia) 1. India Pakistan relations/Kalim Bahadur. 2. Indo Bangladesh Misreading as a policy/Sreeradha Datta. 3. India Nepal relations royal takeover and its implications/Sanjay K. Jha. VI. Energy terrorism and nuclear proliferation 1. An energy crisis in the making India's policy options/Shebonti Ray Dadwal. 2. Terrorism and Indian response/Afsir Karim. 3. India and non proliferation regime/Arundhati Ghose. 3. Valedictory address/Vijay K. Nambiar. This volume contains the proceedings of a two day seminar on Emerging India Security and Foreign Policy Perspective organised by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) as part of its 40 anniversary celebrations on September 1 2 2005 in New Delhi. This volume includes the inaugural and concluding addresses by Admiral Arun Prakash Chief of Naval Staff and Chairman COSC and Sri Vijay Nambiar Deputy National Security Advisor. The papers in this volume have been classified into seven major themes The global and regional security environment major powers military strategy India's relations with the major powers energy security terrorism and non proliferation concerns. The deliberations generated intensive debate on the efficacy of India's security and foreign policy formulations in addressing the security challenges in a dynamic environment. 376 pp.…