Comprehensive Security for an Emerging India
Author | : | Kapil Kak |
Year of Publication | : | 2010 |
Publisher | : | KW Publishers Pvt Ltd |
ISBN - 13 | : | 9789380502304 |
Edition | : | First |
Language | : | English |
Binding | : | Hardcover |
Subject | : | General |
About the Book :
This volume objectively
evaluates the headwinds of comprehensive security challenges that India would
confront in the years ahead. Over nearly two decades, India has made successful
transitions to ‘emerge’ on the regional and global scene, but informed and
reasoned analyses of the multi-dimensional dangers that loom large, and the
common opportunities available, have been lacking. It is hoped that this lacuna
would be filled to an extent by this volume, in which leading luminaries on
‘hard’ and non-traditional security issues have provided incisive inputs that
together shape the meta-narratives on comprehensive security in the Indian
context.
The aforementioned dimensions include internal
security, foreign policy, military force application, state-sponsored
terrorism, left wing and religious extremism, and nuclear proliferation at one
end, and the global challenges of energy, food, climate change and water that
can best be resolved through substantial cooperation of the international
community, on the other. It is to be hoped that this volume would serve to
further enrich the existing material and discourse on India’s comprehensive
security challenges that would be both unpredictable and discontinuous.
About Author :
Air Vice Marshal Kapil Kak AVSM VSM (Retd), a veteran of two wars - 1965 and 1971 - has, post-retirement, served as Deputy Director, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, and Adviser (Strategic Studies), University of Jammu, apart from representing India in a number of Track II conferences on international security issues. A regular commentator on security issues in the electronic media and a prolific contributor of articles to a variety of journals, he co-edited the book India and Pakistan: Pathways Ahead. Air Vice Marshal Kapil Kak is currently Additional Director, Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi.