Full Description
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).
Contents
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
