Research Papers

The whole dynamic of security is changing in India. Rising inequality is going to develop into a crime epidemic, India – Pakistan relations are going to dramatically change in the next ...

Cyber 9/11 is a catastrophic incident which will bring about a huge amount of financial loss, governance crisis, and widespread systems failures.

In 1980, when Alvin Toffler wrote The Third Wave, he said ‘Force base warfare will be transformed in the future into knowledge-based warfare.’ We saw this happen in the first...

"The “World Urban Forum” meet (March 22, 2010) at Rio de Janeiro had warned that “mega cities” were merging to form vast “mega regions” which would stretch hundreds of miles...

For the last 10 years or slightly longer we’ve seen a consistent decline in every conceivable theatre of violence – our North East insurgencies have diminished....

Looking at the problems presently facing the World Order, I think the first important thing that we must notice is that the relative power of the United States is in decline, and...

The Roman Empire was built around roads, the foundations of which still exist today. The British Empire was based on a mastery of the sea lanes, railways and the telegraph.

Intelligence organizations have two functions - the generation or production of intelligence and the analysis of the intelligence thus produced. Intelligence could be generated...

The financial dimension of a terrorist threat remains relatively unknown. In fact, the topic of terrorism financing is often neglected and not given much attention in terrorism discourse.

No one is going to ring a bell when there’s a disruptive tech, and no one is going to ring the bell when you are being the one that is disruptive. This is a very key moment in time...

The response of the law enforcement agency in contrast to the internal security mechanisms are different. Now when it comes to law enforcement, the response has always...

A lot is being made of China and for many years, India has put it on a pedestal. I don’t see the reason why. Being a military man, and specifically an air force man, I’ve always...