India's Emerging Challenges and Way Forward

Contents: 1 Introduction/Anurag Tripathi and Gaurav Kumar. Section I - India’s Internal Security Challenges And The Way Ahead: 2. Counter Terrorism Policy of India: An Overview/Vineeth Thomas. 3. Jammu and Kashmir: Post Revocation of Article 370/Mr. Varun Bhagat. 4. Arunachal Pradesh: Containing Spill Over Insurgency and Deepening The Dawn of Development/Giriraj Bhattacharjee. 5. External Linkages To Left Wing Extremism in India/Shuchi Shah. 6. Safety and Security of Nuclear Power Plants in India/Avala Gnaneswar Reddy. 7. Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Strategic Springboard of India/Thejus Gireesh. 8. India’s Coastal Security/Udbhav Krishna P. 9. Threats to Internal Security From Cyberspace/Commander Subhasish Sarangi. 10. India’s Neighbourhood First Policy: The Current State and The Way Ahead/Gaurav Kumar. Section II - External Dimensions of India’s Security Threats and Future Prospects: 11. The Dragon’s Shadow on The Himalayan Kingdom/Ms. Sandra Sreevalsan. 12. China-Pakistan Collusive Threat: A Challenge to India/Granth Vanaik. 13. China–Pakistan Economic Corridor and Their Possible Implications/Mohammed Shahrukh. 14. An Analysis of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and its Implications for India/Aiman Usmani. 15. Threats to Indian Diaspora in West Asia and The Way Ahead/Palak Bhatia. 16. India-Iran Relations: Challenges and Future Prospects/Nitya Jadeja. 17. India and Sri Lanka – Challenges and Prospects/Challa Sruthi. 18 India – Maldives Relation: Challenges and Way Ahead/Shruti Kunhiraman. 19 China’s Presence in East Africa: Implications For India/Vignesh Namani. Index. The twenty-first century is likely to sustain more transformational, innovative and challenging trends than any other century in the past. In this context, India is bound to visualise a relatively wider and more comprehensive vision of national security in the foreseeable future. As an important growing player in world politics, India’s internal and external security challenges are an important matter to study. This book covers various aspects of India’s internal and external security challenges. It is a compilation of scholarly works focusing on different strategic issues of India’s concern which include maritime security, Naxal issues, insurgency problem, geo-economics, ethnic conflict, climate change, cyber security and so on.…