Vij Books India Pvt Ltd: 131 books
Maritime Security of India
The Coastal Security Challenges and Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This book focuses on various aspects of maritime security of India. Starting with the changing dimensions of national security, it addresses the issues such as non-traditional threats to security, the threat posed by non state actors, the causes of insecurity and also the imperatives of tackling the...
Geopolitics, Security and Bilateral Relations
Perspectives from India and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
India-South Korea bilateral relations achieved a critical landmark with the upgrade of a fast growing relationship to a ‘Strategic Partnership’. As a timely initiative intended to contribute to the process of this upgrade, two premier strategic think tanks, namely the United Services Institution...
Canada-India
Partners in Progress
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book should prove to be unique in many ways. Written in two parts, Part I is a comprehensive survey of Canada – its history, geography, the people, the political and economic aspects, arts and culture including the film industry and a bird’s eye view of the entire country, including possibly...
India's Special Forces
History and Future of Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Employment till now of our nascent Special Forces have been analyzed including whether our Special Forces have actually been employed or used as Special Forces or primarily used in counter insurgency operations for which we have any number of other units available. The book brings out whether a rare...
China’s One Belt One Road
Initiative, Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The Chapters in this book written by Chinese and Indian academics and researchers from United Service Institution of India and Sichuan University, explaining the inter-disciplinary approaches and comparative perspectives, that may help to understand the essence and implication of China’s ‘One...
Nepal - India Open Borders
Problems and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The present book is based on field study of Nepal-India open border arrangement and conduct of such unique and free border existing between the two countries since the signing of Sugauli Treaty in 1815-16. Its openness poses both challenges and opportunities for disturbing as well as making bilateral...
by Kalyani Shankar
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book is a pioneering work about the growing domestic influences on India’s foreign policy with the increasing number of powerful chief ministers asserting at the state level. It investigates how and why in a coalition era with a globally integrated Indian economy, managing a parliamentary coalition...
A Peace History of India
From Ashoka Maurya to Mahatma Gandhi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book is a great contribution to Peace Research. It places India in the world as a worthy player in international relations from ancient times. The selection of four of the most significant historical peaks over two millennia, the Ashoka era, the Pala era, the Orientalist era and the Gandhi era...
Strategic Vision 2030
Security and Development of Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Andaman & Nicobar Islands located over 1200 km to India’s East are nature’s bounty inherited by India during the process of our Independence. Located on the strategic Sea Lines of Communication connecting the Indian Ocean to the Asia-Pacific region and sitting at the entrance of the Malacca...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
There is a widespread perception amongst the intelligentsia that India lacks strategic culture. The deficiency if any perhaps lies in the reluctance to articulate India’s perceptions on strategic issues, as also to formulate a long-term strategic view. As the oldest think tank in Asia, United Services...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
India’s First War of Independence in 1857 ended in a fiasco, primarily for want of effective leadership and perhaps equally important, for lack of a viable strategy. Even after Independence, India has been found wanting on many occasions in dealing with situations concerning our National Security....
The Changing Dimensions of Security
India's Security Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The end of cold war and the on-going globalization process along with the proliferation of non-traditional threat to security of the nations led to multilateralism in international relations. Though the great powers are not ready to accept the new developments, the post-cold war events such as threat...
Pakistan's Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Giving the devil more than his due?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Amidst many developments in the constantly evolving Indo-Pak conflict paradigm, the latest and perhaps the most intriguing has been the induction of Tactical Nuclear Weapons (TNWs) by Pakistan. While nuclear sabre rattling is not new to Pakistan's strategy, this time around there seems to be a strong...
Cyber Warfare
Its Implications on National Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Each era brings with it new techniques and methods of waging a war. While military scholars and experts have mastered land, sea, air and space warfare, time has come that they studied the art of cyberwar too. Our neighbours have acquired the capabilities to undertake this new form of asymmetric form...