Behera, Anshuman and Moazzam, Areeba Ahsanat (2022) India’s National Security Discourse: A Conceptual Introduction. In: Varying Dimensions of India’s National Security: Emerging Perspectives. India Studies in Business and Economics . Springer Nature, Singapore, pp. 3-16. ISBN 978-981-16-7593-5
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| Abstract: | In the larger and rather ‘underdeveloped’ concept of security discourse (as Barry Buzan would call it), the idea of national security is often found to be entangled between two dominant narratives around power struggle and pursuit for peace in international politics. Within a policy framework, national security is often understood to have encompassed the decision and actions deemed imperative to protect domestic core values from external threats (Leffler, The Journal of American History. 77:143–152, 1990). However, such a position on national security only offers a limited understanding of the subject and the issues related to it. Stepping away from the scope of traditional understanding of international relations and security discourses, national security issues offer more critical questions, like security of what to whom and security at what cost to whom (Buzan, People, States, and Fear: The National Security Problem in International Relations, Wheatsheaf Books, 1983). Such questions are better answered, possibly, when the concept of national security is contextualized based on the specificities of a nation-state. In this process one can critically engage with multiple issues concerning security, ranging from the threats to people to that of the nation-state. This chapter critically engages with the various discourses of national security and in this process makes a case for various issues that need to be highlighted and discussed in the scope of India’s security concerns. |
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| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
| Subjects: | School of Conflict and Security Studies > International Relations School of Conflict and Security Studies > Political Conflict School of Conflict and Security Studies > Political Science |
| Divisions: | Schools > Conflict and Security Studies |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Feb 2026 04:30 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Feb 2026 04:30 |
| Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-... |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7593-5_1 |
| URI: | http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/3159 |
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