The Oxford Handbook of India’s National Security

This Handbook is the first comprehensive analysis of all the national security challenges facing India. With contributions from leading and rising scholars from across the world, the essays cover a wide range of topics including the colonial legacy; India’s wars; strategic culture; nuclear security; and the role of space, cyber security, terrorism, insurgencies, intelligence, and civil–military relations; among others.

It focuses on India’s external as well as internal security challenges, and traditional as well as non-traditional challenges to India’s national security, as also on the major theoretical approaches to India’s national security and on the relationship between national security and state-making. 

Features:

• Focus on the internal and external dimensions of national security
• Focus on traditional and nontraditional challenges to Indian national security
• Analyse the challenges inherent in the practice of national security (ranging from India’s experiences with war to the nature of civil–military relations in India)

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
Sumit Ganguly, Nicolas Blarel, and Manjeet S. Pardesi

PART I THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO INDIA’S SECURITY

1. India’s National Security: A Neo-classical Realist Account
Sumit Ganguly
2. India’s National Security: A Liberal Account
Ian Hall
3. India’s National Security: A Constructivist Account
Siddharth Mallavarapu

PART II TRADITIONAL SECURITY PROBLEMS AND RESPONSES

4. The Colonial Legacy and National Security
Kaushik Roy
5. India’s Wars
S. Paul Kapur
6. India’s Conventional Military Strategy
Manjeet S. Pardesi
7. India’s Defence Industrial Base: Decay and Reform
Richard A. Bitzinger
8. India’s Nuclear Trajectory: New Directions Amid Enduring Myths
Gaurav Kampani
9. Civil–Military Relations
Steven I. Wilkinson

PART III TRADITIONAL DOMESTIC SECURITY PROBLEMS AND RESPONSES

10. Indian National Security and Indian State Capacity
William R. Thompson
11. Insurgencies in India: Origins and Causes
Shivaji Mukherjee
12. Counterinsurgency in India
Paul Staniland
13. India’s Experience with Terrorism
Rashmi Singh
14. The Role of Intelligence in Indian Security Policy
Prem Mahadevan

PART IV NONTRADITIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES

15. India’s Pursuit of Economic Security
Rani D. Mullen
16. Environmental Security in India
Sumona DasGupta
17. Regional Migration and Indian Security
Kavita R. Khory
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18. Building Resilience: India’s Cyber Security, 2000–16
Hannes Ebert
19. Transnational Organized Crime
Rahul Mediratta

20. Indian Military Modernization

Shashank Joshi
21. India’s Strategic Culture(s)
Nicolas Blarel
22. India and United Nations Peacekeeping
Geetanjali Chopra and David M. Malone
23. India’s Space Ambitions and Capabilities
Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
24. India’s Energy Security: An Assessment of India’s International Quest for Energy Sources
Isabelle Saint-Mézard
25. The Expansion of India’s Security Sphere
David Brewster
Index