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INDIA’s RESPONSE TO MARINE OIL SPILLS: AN EVALUATION

Climate Change and Marine Oil Spills Climate change is the greatest challenge that humanity is facing — a challenge that would be significantly greater had it not been for our oceans, which play a crucial ameliorating role when it comes…

INDIA’S APPROACH AND POSITION ON CLIMATE CHANGE GOVERNANCE

India recognises that climate change is a significant global problem and an issue of great socio-economic and political importance. Currently, the global average temperature has already risen over 1 degree Celsius (°C) since the pre-industrial…

IDENTIFYING THE LEGAL AND REGULATORY CHALLENGES IN INDIA TO PREVENT ILLEGAL AND UNREGULATED TRADE OF CORALS

In May of 2022, two aquarium hobbyists, from New Town and Kasba (Kolkata) respectively, were arrested by forest officials and placed under judicial custody for a week, for decorating their fish tanks with live corals. A marine species protected…

REAM NAVAL BASE UPGRADE PROJECT IN CAMBODIA: NEW POINT FOR GEOPOLITICAL CONTESTATION IN THE INDO-PACIFIC

A resurgent China aspires to be a great maritime power with a vision to maintain a naval presence in distant seas across the globe. Recognising that this presence can only be sustained through logistics and administrative support, Beijing seeks…

MARITIME DOCTRINE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 2022: AN ANALYSIS

On Sunday, 31 July 2022, by Presidential Decree 512, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin approved the 2022 Maritime Doctrine of the Russian Federation, which replaces the 2015 maritime doctrine. Released on the occasion of the Russia’s 326th…

Coastal Security Ex Matla Abhiyaan

INDIA @75: REFLECTIONS ON THE HOMELAND DIMENSIONS OF MARITIME SECURITY IN INDIA

As India celebrates and commemorates 75 years of independence, it is also a moment to trace the events which shaped the development of the homeland dimensions of maritime security and to reflect on its evolution. Evolving maritime threats,…

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,…

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STRENGTHENING 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…

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF MARITIME SECURITY COOPERATION IN THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION: A CASE STUDY OF THE INDIAN OCEAN NAVAL SYMPOSIUM (IONS) – PART I

Overview “States that adjoin this ocean are differentiated by their varying political ideologies, by the God they pray to, by the language they converse in, by their history and their race.”[1] The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has variously…

ICG ship and ACV apprehends Bangladeshi poachers

THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST ILLEGAL, UNREPORTED AND UNREGULATED FISHING

In December 2017, the United Nations General Assembly in its annual resolution on sustainable fisheries declared 05 June as the ‘International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing’. The UN also declared…

BOOK REVIEW - BALOCHISTAN IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF HISTORY

By Sandhya Jain. New Delhi: KW Publishers Pvt Ltd, 2021. 332 pages. The story of Balochistan is steeped in depredation, treachery and pillage. This region has remained, for much of its existence, on the sidelines of history. Its ethnic…