This book is an independent project co-sponsored by the National Security Council Secretariat and Confederation of Indian Industry. This is the third volume in the series, which was started in September 2000. The previous two volumes were widely acclaimed by the members of the strategic community in India and abroad. The present volume, apart from reviewing global security trends and the external and internal security environment of India, undertakes an in-depth examination of the challenges to India's military modernization, economic security, and problems of self-reliance in defence technologies. In addition, it focuses on some non-traditional security issues like health hazards, urbanization, and climate change and their security implications for India. A highlight of this volume is the national security index, which ranks India at eighth position among the top 50 countries of the world on the basis of their defence capability, GDP, HDI, R&D, and population. Other invaluable features are a chronology of major events, select documents and basic statistics, which vividly bring out India's power profile as well as the world power structure.
READERSHIP: Policy makers, researchers, tertiary students, media professionals, military decision-makers with an interest in India's security issues and her defence capabilities with reference to world powers.