Institutional Roots of India's Security Policy

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Milan Vaishnav (Senior Fellow and Director, Senior Fellow and Director, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

Institutional Roots of India's Security Policy

Milan Vaishnav (Senior Fellow and Director, Senior Fellow and Director, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

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Oxford University Press
28 March 2024

Espionage & secret services; Geopolitics; Military administration; Military intelligence

In recent years, India has asserted its desire not simply to be a balancing power but to become a leading power on the world stage. As India's economic development has steadily progressed, so too have its foreign policy and security ambitions. However, India's ability to sustain high rates of economic growth at home and project power overseas rests on unsteady state capacities. Despite widespread concerns over the severe institutional constraints that India faces, there is a lack of scholarly research on the administrative and organizational effectiveness of India's security institutions. Myriad inadequacies related to both procedure and personnel continue to hamper the Indian state's ability to perform one of its most essential functions: protecting Indians from security threats at home and abroad. Institutional Roots of India's Security Policy aims to deconstruct and interrogate disparities in India's security institutions through high-quality analytic examinations of more than a dozen foreign policy and national security institutions spread across four domains: the armed services, intelligence, border and internal security, and police and investigative agencies. A one-stop resource on India's security institutions, this volume demystifies secretive institutions that have long eluded careful scrutiny, including India's paramilitary forces, the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Edited by: Milan Vaishnav (Senior Fellow and Director Senior Fellow and Director South Asia Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9780198894612
ISBN 10: 0198894619
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 28 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Milan Vaishnav: Chapter One: Institutions and the Future of Indian National Security Part I: Armed Forces Ayesha Ray: Chapter Two: The Indian Army Atul Bhardwaj: Chapter Three: The Indian Navy Rahul Bhatia and Shibani Mehta: Chapter Four: The Indian Air Force Part II: Intelligence Shreyas Shende and Rudra Chaudhuri: Chapter Five: The Research and Analysis Wing Praveen Swami: Chapter Six: The Intelligence Bureau Part III: Internal and Border Security Paul Staniland: Chapter Seven: India's Central Paramilitaries Jabin T. Jacob: Chapter Eight: The Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the Sashastra Seema Bal Anirudh Deshpande: Chapter Nine: The Border Security Force Raghuveer Nidumolu and Srinath Raghavan: Chapter Ten: The Assam Rifles and the Rashtriya Rifles Part IV: Police and Investigative Agencies Akshay Mangla and Vineet Kapoor: Chapter Eleven: The Police in India Navneet Rajan Wasan: Chapter Twelve: The Central Bureau of Investigation and the National Investigation Agency

Milan Vaishnav is a Senior Fellow and Director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary research focus is the political economy of India, and he examines issues such as corruption and governance, state capacity, distributive politics, and electoral behaviour. Vaishnav is the author of When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics (Yale University Press, 2017) and co-editor of Rethinking Public Institutions in India (with Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Devesh Kapur; Oxford University Press, 2017) and Costs of Democracy: Political Finance in India (with Devesh Kapur; Oxford University Press, 2018).