India\'s Internal Security : Issues and Perspectives

Contents: Introduction. 1. Internal security and role of the state: a conceptual framework/Shrikant Paranjpe. 2. Role of the state and challenges to internal security/Sadanand Kulkarni. 3. The third state debate and security Dilemma/Dilip Mohite. 4. State and terrorism in India/Jayant Umranikar. 5. Role of the armed forces in internal security/Sashikant Pitre. 6. Military response to the challenges of internal security at the level of sub-conventional war in the Indian context/R.D. Limaye. 7. Handle with care: Indian armed forces--their involvement in internal security duties and implications/D.B. Shekatkar. 8. Internal security, the state and civil society: a human security perspective/Shirish Kawadi. 9. Civil society and internal security/Mehda Saykhedkar. 10. Kashmir: issues and perspectives/Vijay Khare. 11. Diplomacy, development and demilitarization: the K-solution/Rashmi Bhure. 12. Economics of internal security/Sanhita Athavale. 13. Role of the media in the context of internal security/Abhay Vaidya. 14. Psychological warfare in internal security scenario/Arun Bhat. Index.

"The problem of internal security came to be addressed as a "security policy issue" in India only in the 1980s. This area is one of the important non strategic concerns of security policy. It presents the critical debates on the application of the principle of self determination in its political, economic and socio-cultural dimensions. At the political level, it focuses on the degree of autonomy within the framework of national integration; at the economic level, the problem of decentralization of economic power; and at the socio-cultural level, the issue of the state and civil society. This book seeks to bring together a wide range of scholarship including those who have participated in policy making the policy implementation in the areas of military, police, media economics, political science, non state sector, etc. This book is an attempt to create a broad based understanding of the problem of internal security and the role of the state in India from an interdisciplinary perspective." (jacket)