India’s Pursuit of Energy Security

Domestic Measures, Foreign Policy and Geopolitics
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-93-5388-219-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 532 g

This book is a comprehensive examination of the dynamics of India’s energy security policy in the domestic and international context. Over the past decade and a half, energy security has been a constant driver of India’s foreign policy. Successive Indian governments have emphasized it as a major concern, next only to food security.

The long-term satisfaction of India’s energy security needs calls for a fresh and multi-pronged approach. This is imperative in the light of the recent dynamics of India’s foreign policy and the challenges that India is facing in its quest for energy security, mainly in the context of diversification of sources abroad and shift to alternative sources in a carbon-controlled environment. This is further intensified in the context of the complex and competitive strategic rivalry between India and China in the Indo-Pacific region, as India looks outward and expands its outreach to meet its pressing energy security challenges. The book presents an in-depth analysis of all such domestic and foreign policy challenges and measures to meet India’s fast-growing energy demand in a competitive geopolitical environment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharma, Ashok

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by V.K. Singh
Preface
Acknowledgements
Energy Security as a Concept: Thematic Issues in India’s Energy Security in Domestic and International Settings
India’s Energy Reserves and Energy Mix: Addressing the Demand in a Carbon Controlled Environment
India’s Domestic Measures to Energy Security: Exploration and Production, Privatization and Energy Efficiency
Energy Security as a Foreign Policy Priority: India’s Diversification of Energy Acquisition Sources and Exploration Abroad
India’s Quest for Atomic Energy: Diplomacy and Nuclear Agreements
India’s Quest for Energy Security Abroad: India-China Energy Geopolitics and Great Game
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sharma, Ashok
Ashok Sharma is currently a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Canberra, at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). Dr Sharma is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Institute of Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra. He is the Head of the South Asia Strategic, Security and State Fragile Program and Conjoint Head of the Indo-Pacific and Major Power Studies Program at the National Asian Studies Centre at the University of Canberra. He is also a Deputy Chair at New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Auckland.

Prior to joining the UNSW at ADFA in 2016, Dr Sharma was a Fellow at Australia–India Institute, the University of Melbourne, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, a Visiting Academic at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, and an Endeavour Post- Doctoral Fellow at the Australian National University in 2008.

Dr Sharma has a BA (Hons) in Political Science from Ramjas College, University of Delhi, an MA in Political Science and an MPhil and PhD in American Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was a Faculty at the University of Delhi and worked with think tanks based in New Delhi, namely Brookings Project at the Observer Research Foundation, Centre for Air Power Studies and Centre for Land Warfare Studies.

Dr Sharma specializes in great power politics with emphasis on US–India–China geopolitics. He is extensively published and is the author of well-received book Indian Lobbying and its Influence in US Decision Making: Post-Cold War (SAGE Publications, 2017).