CSA Publications

Edited by Gopalji Malviya

Published by Centre for Security Analysis

ISBN.NO: 81-902317-3-1

National security studies have traditionally focused on threats to territorial integrity and use of military in response to external threats. With the dawn of the 21st century, the debate on the classical formulation of national security versus human security or comprehensive security gained momentum amongst scholars, thinkers, academia and think tanks. There has, thus, been a paradigm shift not simply from state centric focus to societal security concerns but also in the concept, meaning and understanding of national security.
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Is it necessary to 'securitize' larger dimensions of human concern under the umbrella of non-traditional security and, if so, to what extent? Where do we draw a line between traditional and non-traditional security? What should be the scope of national security in contemporary teaching and research by the academia? To seek answers to these questions, the Centre for Security Analysis along with the National Center of International Security and Defence Analysis (NISDA), Pune and Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, University of Madras organised a workshop in September 2006 in Chennai. This book is a compendium of the papers presented at the workshop.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword
V. R. Raghavan

Introduction
Gopalji Malviya

Essential Components of National Security
Keynote Address by Amitabh Mattoo

PART I - Changing Paradigms of National Security

Globalisation and the Changing Contours of Sovereignty:
Implications for National Security
A.K.Ramakrishnan

National Identities and Myths in National Building:
Political Communication of India's Security Perceptions
Shrikant Paranjape

PART II - Human & Internal Security Dimensions

The Human Security Umbrella in the 21st Century: A Realist Approach
A. J. Majumdar

From Human Security Deficit to Crisis: The Issue of
Left Extremism and its Implications for India's Internal Security
Mallika Joseph

Naxalism and Internal Security Anxieties
Priyankar Upadhyaya

Environmental Security: An Emerging Threat
Ajey Lele

PART III - National Security as an Academic Discipline

Strategic and Military Dimensions of India's Integrated Security
in the 21st Century
D.B.Shekatkar

Security Studies in the New Millennium: The State of the Discipline
W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar