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National Security is a policy-oriented quarterly journal of the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi. It focuses on the principal issues and trends in India’s increasingly complex national and international security environment. The journal carries holistic analysis and informed debates on all aspects of security and has emerged as an important forum for top thinkers, policy experts, and academics from India and abroad. It also aims to meet the needs of an international readership that is increasingly interested in India’s security policies as its role in world affairs grows. Recent issues of the journal have covered a wide variety of vital themes: India’s two-front security challenge, the Indo-Pacific and Quad, developments in China and India-China relations, Pakistan, nuclear doctrine, BIMSTEC, the status of Tibet, defence policy, terrorism, the scientific revolution and security, and nationalism.
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Editor-In-Chief
- Arvind Gupta, Director, Vivekananda International Foundation, Former Deputy National Security Advisor, B-24, IFS Apartment, Mayur Vihar Ph. 1, Delhi -110091 E: director@vifindia.org
Editor
- Sujit Dutta, Distinguished Fellow V.I.F., Prof., Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace & Conflict Resolution (retd), and MK Gandhi Chair in Peace & Conflict Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, N.D. Former Senior Fellow, Inst. for Def. Studies & Analysis New Delhi E: sujitdutta@vifindia.org, nationalsecurity@vifindia.org
Editorial Committee
- C. D. Sahay, Distinguished Fellow, Vivekananda International Foundation Former Secretary (Research and Analysis Wing), Cabinet Secretariat E: sahay@vifindia.org Add: 158-P, Sec 31/32A, Opp Raheja Atlantis, Gurugram (Haryanaa) -122001
- Dilip K. Chakrabarti, Distinguished Fellow, V.I.F. Professor Emeritus, South Asian Archaeology, University of Cambridge E: dilipchakrabarti@vifindia.org Add: Flat No. 20, Uttranchal Apartments, IP Extension, Patparganj Delhi-110092
- Gautam Banerjee, General Editor V.I.F. Former Chief of Staff, Central Command, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, Editor E: editor@vifindia.org Add: P-101, Sispal Vihar Defence Enclave Sohna Road, Sec.-49 Gurugram (Haryana) - 122010
- Ravi Sawhney, Center Head and Senior Fellow, National Security and Strategic , V.I.F. Former Deputy Chief of Army Staff, PVSM and AVSM E: ravisawhney@vifindia.org Add: 4251, Sec. 23A, Gurugram-122017
- Sreeradha Datta, Senior Fellow, V.I.F Former Director Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata E: sreeradhadatta@vifindia.org Add: H 1593, First Floor, Chittranjan Park, New Delhi - 110019
International Advisory Board
- Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, Moscow
- Aparna Pande, Expert on South Asia, Director, Initiative on the Future of India and South Asia, Hudson Institute, Washington D.C.
- James Jay Carafano, Expert on Military Affairs and U.S National Security, Vice President, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, and the E. W. Richardson Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, Washington D.C.
- Dr. James M. Dorsey, Expert on West Asia and the Middle East, Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore
- Kanwal Sibal, Former Foreign Secretary, Analyst, Member of the Advisory Council, Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi
- Prabhat Shukla, Former Diplomat, Analyst, Member of the Advisory Council, Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi
- Tariq Karim, Former Bangladesh Diplomat, Advisor on South Asia Regional Integration at the World Bank
Volume 4 (2021) Issue 3 , (July-2021 to September-2021)
July-September
Articles
Belt and Road at the Cross-Roads: Imperial Ambitions and Blowback
by Sujit Dutta
Periphery, Vulnerability and the Belt and Road Initiative by Abanti Bhattacharya
China Pakistan Economic Corridor: Domestic Trajectory and Contested Geopolitics by Prateek Joshi
Bangladesh and Belt Road Initiative: Unfolding Possibilities by Sreeradha Datta
The China Myanmar Economic Corridor: A Reality Check by Jaideep Chanda
Book Reviews
A Sensitive Account of the Brave Gurkhas
by Arvind Gupta
Preparing for the 21st Century Battles
by P. K. Chakravorty
Volume 4 (2021)
Volume 4 (2021) Issue 2 , (April-2021 to June-2021)
Apr-Jun
Essays
The Contours of Biden’s Foreign-Policy
by Arvind Gupta
Re-energising Indo-US Defence Technology Cooperation
by S. Guruprasad
The Wrinkle in US-India Strategic Alignment by Walter Lohman
India and the Biden Administration
by Kanwal Sibal
Articles
An Agenda For India-US Relations in a Biden Presidency
by ARUN K. SINGH
Prospects of India-US Defence Cooperation by Anil Ahuja
Biden Administration and the Indo-Pacific Axis
by K.P. Vijayalakshmi
The United States And India: A Digital Partnership in Need of a Strategy by Arjun Kang Joseph & Rudra Chaudhuri
Book Review
Combating China’s Political Warfare: An American Analysis
by Satish Chandra
Volume 4 (2021) Issue 1 , (January-2021 to March-2021)
Jan-Mar
Essays
Rescuing the Nation from History: Implications of Indian Historiography for National Security
by Arpita Mitra
The Early Concept of Bharatavarsha by Rupendra Kumar Chattopadhyay & Arkaprava Sarkar
Reimagining Multilateralism : The Ethos and Philosophy of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam by Arvind Gupta
Articles
Nationalism in the Study of Ancient Indian History
by Dilip K. Chakrabarti
How the Ancient Indian Vīṇā Travelled to Other Asian Countries: A Reconstruction though Scriptures, Sculptures, Paintings and Living Traditions by Piyal Bhattacharya and Shreetama Chowdhury
Potential of Geospatial Technologies as a Cognitive and Spatio-visual tool for Mapping the Past by M B Rajani & Shalini Dixit
Book Reviews
Kautilya’s Arthashastra: Fusion of the Philosophical and the Strategic
by Kajari Kamal
Comparing India and China, but not without Western biases
by Abanti Bhattacharya
Volume 3 (2020)
Volume 3 (2020) Issue 4 , (October-2020 to December-2020)
Oct-Dec
Essays
The Politicisation of WHO
by Arvind Gupta
Building a Sustainable Ecology - Housing and Architecture in Mumbai by Samarth Das
Reforms in Agriculture: Promise and Challenges by Atul Sarma and Shyam Sunder
Articles
Responding to COVID 19: India’s trade restrictions and the World Trade Organization
by Varad Choudhary, Rudraksh Lakra and Ayan Gupta
Influence Operations by China by DN Mathur
Perilous Deterrent: Pandemic and the Consequent Re-evaluation of India’s National Security by Souradeep Sen
Book Reviews
The Bangladesh Story - Travails and Triumphs
by Pratim Ranjan Bose
Trump, Xi and the Making of the New Cold War by Prerna Gandhi
Volume 3 (2020) Issue 3 , (July-2020 to September-2020)
Essay
Nursing the economy back to health, post-Covid
by V. Anantha Nageswaran
Articles
World Order in the Post Covid 19: Modi and Kennedy parallel challenges
by Umberto Sulpasso
Design Intervention to Augment Non-Traditional Security by Mihir Bholey
Indian and Russian Engagement in Eurasia: New Areas of Cooperation by NIRMALA JOSHI
How Turkey uses Libya to achieve its foreign policy objectives by Dr Yatharth Kachiar
Wilayat-e-Internet: Islamic State Cyber Caliphate by Anurag Sharma
Book Review
China and the South China Sea Imbroglio
by Teshu Singh
Volume 3 (2020) Issue 2 , (April-2020 to June-2020)
Apr-Jun
Essays
Challenges to the Nuclear order
by Arvind Gupta
Pakistan Once Again - With Terror, Lies and Bomb by Sheel Kant Sharma
Colloquiumes
Indian Nuclear Posture and National Security
by Balraj Nagal
Voices of Change in Indian Nuclear Doctrine –an Analysis
by V K Saxena
Articles
On the Unravelling of Global Nuclear Order
by R.Rajaraman
Changing Nature of Deterrence: The Challenge of Asymmetric Threats by Rajaram Nagappa & N Ramamoorthy
Global Nuclear Developments 2017-2020: Implications for India’s Nuclear Policy by Manpreet Sethi
Pakistan’s Nuclear and Missile Capabilities: Implications for India by Dr Shalini Chawla
Book Reviews
A Rare Insight into India’s Nuclear Programme
by Sheel Kant Sharma
South Asia in the Second Nuclear Age by Jaideep Chanda
Tackling Deterrence Uncertainty in South Asia. by Souradeep Sen
Volume 3 (2020) Issue 1 , (January-2020 to March-2020)
Jan-Mar
Essays
BIMSTEC as a regional organization: Déjà vu or new beginning?
by Shambhu Ram Simkhada
BIMSTEC and its Future: Connecting South and Southeast Asia
by Tariq Karim
BIMSTEC and S & T Cooperation: A Long Way Ahead
by Kapil Patil
Submarines Gain Precedence in Bay of Bengal Naval Order of Battle
by Vijay Sakhuja
Articles
Regional Connectivity and India's BIMSTEC Policy
by Constantino Xavier & Riya Sinha
Bangladesh beyond Borders: Its Trans-Regional Experience in BIMSTEC by Niloy Ranjan Biswas
Sri Lanka and BIMSTEC: Past, Present and Prospects for the Future by Bhagya Senaratne
A New BIMSTEC? : Reforms, Possibilities and Complexities by Angshuman Choudhury
Report
VIF-BIMSTEC Security Dialogue
by SreeradhaDatta
Book Discussion
The Borderlands and Borders of the Indian Subcontinent
by Dilip K Chakrabarti, Abanti Bhattacharya , K. Warikoo
Book Reviews
Exploring new avenues of regionalism in South Asia
by Alakh Ranjan
Conflicting Identities: Travails of Regionalism in Asia by Anurag Sharma
Volume 2 (2019)
Volume 2 (2019) Issue 3 , (July-2019 to September-2019)
Jul-Sep
Essays
Regional and Sub-Regional Constructs within the Indo-Pacific
by Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa
Essay
An Australian view of the Indo Pacific – three big problems and one way forward
by Michael Shoebridge
Essaay
Unpacking the Trump Administration’s New Indo-Pacific Strategy
by Jeff M Smith
Articles
China’s Multilateral Gambit in South Asia
by ASOKE KUMAR MUKERJI
The Geo-political Underpinnings of the "Open and Free Indo-Pacific" Concept by Baladas Ghoshal
Importance of East Africa in Indo-Pacific by NEHA SINHA
Geopolitics of the South Pacific and Opportunities for India by Maitrayee Shilpa Kishore
Book Reviews
The Indo-Pacific in India’s imagination
by Amruta Karambelkar
India and Asia’s Changing Balance of Power by Manish
Indo-Pacific – Diverse Perspectives by Udayan Das
Volume 2 (2019) Issue 2 , (April-2019 to June-2019)
Apr-Jun
Essays
Domestic Knowledge Product: Enhancing Wealth, Welfare and National Security
by Umberto Sulpasso
Disruptive Technologies and India’s Military Modernisation by J P Singh
Rising Role of Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security by Durga Prakash Devarakonda
Aarticles
Strengthening Food Security through Technologies
by Suhas P Wani, Mukund D Patil & Dhirendra Singh
Decision Intelligence for the Indian Agriculture Sector by Roger Moser
Higher Education Ecosystem’s Preparedness for IR 4.0: An Indian Perspective by K. K. Aggarwal & Avinash C. Sharma
Analyzing Predictions about The Future of Manufacturing and Technology and Their Extension to India... by Alimah Rehan
India's Need for Strategic Minerals by AJEY LELE
Blockchain as the funding foundation for Indian MSME Sector by Pallav Kumar Singh
Book Reviews
Technological Revolution and the Emerging Military Environment
by Anand V.
Humanity in the Age of Data by Prerna Gandhi
Future of War by Anurag Sharma
Volume 2 (2019) Issue 1 , (January-2019 to March-2019)
Jan-Mar
Essays
India in an Age of Uncertainty and Instability
by Satish Chandra
Towards a Rule Based Order in the Indo-Pacific by Arvind Gupta
Assessing India’s Nuclear Doctrine by Amit Sharma
Supreme Court ruling on Gilgit Baltistan: A legacy of unfulfilled promises by Prateek Joshi
Articles
Tibet was Never Part of China Before 1950: Examples of Authoritative pre-1949 Chinese Documents that Prove It
by Hon-Shiang LAU
China’s Policies of Exploitation in Mekong River Region by Vinod Anand
Anti-Terror Laws in India: An Appraisal by Ramanand Garge
Mitigating the threat in space: Chinese military space capability and India’s response by Rahul Krishna & Aradhya Shandilya
Book Reviews
Coping with the Nuclear Shadow
by Arvind Gupta
The Sardar’s Legacy by Shantanu Chakrabarti
Volume 1 (2018)
Volume 1 (2018) Issue 2 , (August-2018 to December-2018)
2018
Colloquium
U.S.- China Rivalry - Global Impact
by P K Basu & Pinaki Bhattacharya
Essays
Understanding China's foreign policy in Xi Jinping’s “New Era”
by Arvind Gupta
Can India and China have a Mutually Beneficial Relationship? by Anil Wadhwa
China’s Growing Presence in the Indian Ocean ~ India’s Options by Satish Soni
Articles
China's Role in the United Nations: Utilitarianism Overshadows Universal Values
by ASOKE MUKHERJI
PLA Reforms under Xi and their Security Implications by S L Narasimhan
China’s Green Innovation Strategy under Xi Jinping by Avinash Godbole
China’s `Mass Incidents’: Declining Numbers or Hidden Data? by Gunjan singh
Book Reviews
Comprehensive Work on Security
by Satish Chandra
Cracking the ‘Fortune Cookie’ of Chinese Power by Rana Divyank Chaudhary
Musharraf and the Price of Kargil by Prateek Joshi
Documents
Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth from Facts and Unite as one in Looking to the Future,1978
Remarks Made During an Inspection Tour of Shanghai, 1991
Volume 1 (2018) Issue 1 , (January-2018 to August-2018)
Jan-Aug
Colloquium
Two-Front War: What Does it Imply?
by N C Vij, R K Dhowan, K K Nohwar & Krishan Varma
Essay
Securing the Nation: The Indispensability of Institutional Synergy
by Arvind Gupta
Articles
Ruling from the Shadows: The Political Predominance of the Military in Pakistan
by Tilak Devasher
CPEC at Three: Mapping Progress, Stakeholders and Sustainability by Prateek Joshi
Transition in the Middle East: Transition to What? by James M. Dorsey
"Quad” from the Japanese Perspective by Yasushi Tomiyama
Looking Further East: India’s Engagement with the Pacific Island States by Asha Sundaramurthy
Book Reviews
My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir by Jagmohan, Allied Publishers, 1991
by Satish Chandra
The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace by A. S. Dulat, Aditya Sinha & Asad Durrani, Harper Collins, 2018 by C D Sahay & Prateek Joshi
India’s National Security: Annual Review 2016-17, Edited by Satish Kumar, Routledge, 2018 by Arvind Gupta
India, China, and the World: A Connected History by Tansen Sen, Oxford University Press, 2018 by Gunjan singh
Documents
Statement to Parliament on Nuclear Tests in Pokhran:Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 27/05/1998
“Evolution of India’s Nuclear Policy” Paper laid in Parliament by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 27/05/1998
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Introduction
National Security is a policy-oriented quarterly journal of the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi. It focuses on the principal issues and trends in India’s increasingly complex national and international security environment. The journal carries holistic analysis and informed debates on all aspects of security and has emerged as an important forum for top thinkers, policy experts, and academics from India and abroad. It also aims to meet the needs of an international readership that is increasingly interested in India’s security policies as its role in world affairs grows. Recent issues of the journal have covered a wide variety of vital themes: India’s two-front security challenge, the Indo-Pacific and Quad, developments in China and India-China relations, Pakistan, nuclear doctrine, BIMSTEC, the status of Tibet, defence policy, terrorism, the scientific revolution and security, and nationalism.
Topics
Important and fundamental areas of Political Science & International Affairs
Subject Covered
Important and fundamental areas of Political Science & International Affairs
Instructions to Authors
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EDITOR (Sujit Dutta, E-mail: sujitdutta@vifinida.org ; national security@vifindia.org),
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