Left Wing Extremism (Naxalism) and Urban Youth – Why Educational Institutes Are Emerging Battlefields?
Background: The year 2016 kept India occupied with shocking revelations on the campus of renowned Education Institutes. FTII, HCU, IIT Chennai, JNU, Osmania University, Jadhavpur University, Delhi University, Baghalpur University are just few names to highlight. The common thread in all these ̳Institutes turned Battlefields‘ is protest against Indian Government in the name of Constitutional principles and Democratic Values. This was at students level. Few teachers too tried to escalate these protests through their active participation or supportive roles. Different Political parties, tried to exploit the situation. All this left the common man of this country wondering and guessing ̳How students turned anti India?‘ ̳What is suddenly wrong with all these universities and institutes?‘ A need is felt to analyse the factors that produced sporadic events which sustained or made to sustain discontent over a long period of time. There are different dimensions of these incidents. The objective of this document is to analyse the dimension of Left Wing Extremism, particularly Maoism and Urban strategy of Maoists which is affecting Educational Institutes and Urban Youth. Read More
Human Trafficking from Bangladesh: An Issue of National and Human Security
: Human trafficking a crucial non-traditional organised crime, which has been remarkably on the rise for the last decades. With increasing global and security concerns, human trafficking has aroused many actors at international and state level to play vital role in curbing this crime. This crime comes at an incalculable human cost and represents one of the most shameful facts of the modern world. Virtually none of the country in the world is unaffected by the crime of human trafficking. Trafficking has become the third most profitable illegal activity after illegal drugs and weapons dealing. It is estimated that half of these numbers come from South Asia. Within South Asia, India is identified as a major country of origin destination and transit country for trafficking of persons. Across the Eastern part of India, Bangladesh is one of the most prominent state for cross-border human trafficking. Read More
Military – A De facto power in Pakistan
Despite the existence of democratic government in Pakistan for around a decade, military is the most important political institution in Pakistan. Military plays a dominant role as decision maker in core areas of defense, national security and foreign policy. In fact, Military is the de- facto power holder in Pakistan. The extensive role of military in Pakistan‘s society and Politics has to be understood in the context of Pakistan‘s fractured nation-building process, and the challenges to Pakistan‘s integrity within, its geopolitical position in the region and the resultant external threats. Read More
China Threat Perception and Strategic Options
For most authors, India – China relations revolve around boundary dispute or border wars. Moreover, most base their thinking on historical accounts. For neo-liberals, India and China are driven to secure support of other powers to maximize their interest in the condition of anarchy.1
would involve settlement of boundary disputes.2 Here India needs to get first hand pulse of China for formulating China Policy instead of relying on western sources and thinking.3 Read More
China’s Geo-economic Statecraft for Dominance in Southeast Asia and South Asia
The rise of China and India as major world powers promises to test the established global order in the coming decades. As the two powers grow, they are bound to change the current international system, with profound implications for themselves and the world. A close examination of Chinese and Indian perspectives on the fundamentals of the emerging international order reveals that Sino-Indian differences on many issues of both bilateral and global significance are stark (Tellis and Mirsky, 2013). The Chinese leaders nourish a clear objective of becoming the most powerful nation in the world. In order to become a superpower, China must first establish a complete swag in Asia and the only factor that stands in the way of realisation of this is India (Joshi, 2006). Read More
Book Review: How India Sees The World: Kautilya to the 21st Century; Shyam Saran
An acclaimed senior diplomat – Mr. Shyam Saran (former foreign secretary, a former Prime minister‘s special envoy and a former chairman of the National Security Advisory Board) has come up with an extraordinarily engaging and revealing book on Indian diplomacy and making of India‘s foreign policy.
The initial part of the book traces history of the Indian tradition of diplomacy, pursuit of state power and prudence in interstate relations to the time of Kautilya. He presents the contributions made by Kautilya and Kamandaki as the sources of India‘s today‘s approach in making of foreign policy. Read More
