Overview
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).
Full Product Details
Author: Milan Vaishnav (Senior Fellow and Director, Senior Fellow and Director, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.487kg
ISBN: 9780198894612
ISBN 10: 0198894619
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 10 July 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
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).
