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In August 2021, the Indian Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, chaired a High-level Open Debate on ‘Enhancing Maritime Security – A Case for International Cooperation’ during India’s rotating presidency of the UN Security Council. This was the first time that maritime security was discussed exclusively as a holistic concept at the UN Security Council. This marked the progressive upscaling of efforts by India to shape the discourse on international cooperation for maritime security.
In the 21st century, the concept of maritime security has evolved, and continues to evolve, encompassing widening dimensions of security. Increasing threats to maritime security have also underscored the need for enhancing international cooperation to ensure freedom of the seas.
Over the years, India has taken on a stewardship role in fostering international maritime security cooperation through policy pronouncements, such as Security and Growth for All in the Region (SAGAR) in 2015, and providing greater first-order specificity to the policy through the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI) of 2018, and even greater orders of specificity, through cooperative and practical actions dispersed over time and space.
Against this backdrop, this book, aims to comprehensively explore the ‘nuts and bolts’ of India’s multidimensional maritime security cooperation, going beyond military maritime diplomacy. In doing so, the book also endeavours to link India’s vision, policy, doctrine, strategy, and action. In short, the book is about the India Way for maritime security cooperation. A must read for all categories of stakeholders in, and beyond, the maritime domain.
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