Diplomatic Dimension of Maritime Challenges for India in the 21st Century

The ebbs and flows of Indian history can also be charted through the countrys maritime blindness its onset and the national endeavour to overcome it. The story of developing Indias maritime capacity, since independence, is also about the kind of international and regional footprint it needs to have. In this book, the author discusses Indias new and old maritime challenges and contextualises them in terms of its inherent institutional strengths to cope with their bewildering complexity. Their complexity is not just due to their sheer scale; the degrading institutional capacities, within countries and internationally, act as threat multipliers. The dynamics of global geopolitics, the seismic perturbations of global economy, and the dizzying pace of technology belie presuppositions for global future; all strategic analysts recognise our current, persisting conundrums.