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THE 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…

FRANCE’S INDO-PACIFIC STRATEGY 2022: AN ANALYSIS
Introduction
During his speech on 02 May 2018 at the Garden Island Naval Base at Sydney, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, spelt out his country’s Indo-Pacific Strategy. The strategy was based on seven pillars and aimed at placing…

HOLISTIC MARITIME SECURITY CHALLENGES FACING INDIA: MITIGATION IMPERATIVES AND OPTIONS
India, by virtue of having a large coastal frontage in the northern Indian Ocean, is faced with a wide range of maritime security challenges in both, traditional and non-traditional domains. While traditional threats arise primarily on account…

MARINE POLICING AND MARITIME SECURITY IN INDIA: EVOLVING DIMENSIONS
Introduction
While navies and coast guards dominate the discourse on maritime security, marine units of…

MARITIME SAFETY AND SECURITY IN INDIA: FISHERIES “MCS” A KEY ENABLER
Introduction
India has close to 2,60,000 registered fishing vessels.[1] These include deep-sea fishing vessels (61), motorised mechanical vessels (62,130), motorised non-mechanical vessels (1,40,272) and non-motorised/traditional boats…

A CRITIQUE OF THE REPORT ON “A SECURITY THREAT ASSESSMENT OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: HOW LIKELY WARMING SCENARIOS INDICATE A CATASTROPHIC SECURITY FUTURE”
Kate Guy et al, Product of the National Security, Military, and Intelligence Panel on Climate Change, eds. Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werell. (Washington, DC: The Centre for Climate and Security, an Institute of the Council on Strategic Risks,…

NEED FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADAPTIVE GEOSTRATEGIES TO ADDRESS CLIMATE-CHANGE: AN INDIAN AND AN ISRAELI PERSPECTIVE
Abstract
The issue of climate change continues to hog the lime-light. Even though there is no unanimity in the scientific community about the rate at which climate change is actually occurring, there is no doubt that climate change is actually…

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO COASTAL AND OFFSHORE DEFENCE: LEVERAGING THE COASTAL SECURITY CONSTRUCT
Introduction
The second edition of Exercise SEA VIGIL, a two day pan-India biennial coastal defence exercise, was conducted on 12 and 13 January 2021.[1] The exercise, which is India’s largest such exercise, was facilitated by central…

COMMUNITY OUTREACH FOR MARITIME SECURITY IN INDIA: NEED FOR A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH
Introduction
On 26 November 2020, seven fishermen on board a sinking boat were rescued off the Maharashtra coast after fishermen from a nearby boat alerted the owner…

COASTAL SECURITY IN INDIA: TWELVE YEARS AFTER ‘26/11’
INTRODUCTION
It has been twelve years since the heinous attack on Mumbai on 26 November 2008. While ‘coastal border management’ was institutionalised in 2004 with the establishment of the Department of Border Management (DoBM) in the…

CLIMATE RISKS TO INDIA’S HOLISTIC MARITIME SECURITY- PART 3: COLLAPSING OCEAN BIODIVERSITY
This article constitutes the third part of an ongoing series relating to a comprehensive research-project, being undertaken by the National Maritime Foundation (NMF), on the impacts of climate change on India’s holistic maritime security. …

EXPANSION OF THE NATIONAL CADET CORPS IN COASTAL DISTRICTS: STRENGTHENING LOCAL CAPACITIES FOR MARITIME SECURITY
Introduction
The genesis of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) is intricately linked to the India-Pakistan War of 1947-48. The war highlighted the need for sufficient strength of reserves who could take up arms when required. This found…