
TOWARDS SHAPING A FAVOURABLE AND POSITIVE MARITIME ENVIRONMENT IN THE INDO-PACIFIC
Doctrinal and Strategic Nuances
The methodology of shaping a favourable and positive maritime environment can assume many forms, which can be pursued by three main distinct approaches. The first is via a stand-alone nationalistic approach,…
NE INDIA BROADCASTSTRENGTHENING MARITIME SECURITY GOVERNANCE IN INDIA: A CASE FOR ‘STATE MARITIME SECURITY COORDINATORS’
In February 2022, the Central Government appointed India’s first National Maritime Security Coordinator (NMSC). The need for an apex-body for coordination was recommended way back in 2001 in the Report of the Group of Ministers on National…

ATMANIRBHAR BHARAT — CHOOSING SWAVLAMBAN (SELF-RELIANCE) OVER SELF-SUFFICIENCY
Note: Some segments of this article have been published by the author in the South Asia Defence and Strategic Review (Vol 16 Issue 2 May – Jun 2022) and are repeated here with due permission.
As the Indian Navy gears up for the 2022 edition…
BBC NewsTHE INDO-PACIFIC LEGACY OF ABE SHINZO
Over the week that has elapsed since the tragic loss of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in his home country on the 8th of July 2022, the world has witnessed a deluge of eulogies for this charismatic world leader…

CRIMINAL JURISDICTION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
This article was first published in the April 2022 edition of Benedict's Maritime Bulletin [Vol 20, No 2, Second Quarter 2022] and is reproduced with due permission".
Even almost a century after the seminal 1927 Permanent Court…
