Security in a complex era : emerging challenges facing India / Neil Padukone.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [115]-147).

Foreword by General V.P. Malik (Retd) -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- MICRO LEVEL CHALLENGES The Information Revolution and the Role of Perception -- Identity -- Perception Management and Perception Influence -- Networked Organization -- Networked Threats -- Communication in Networks Information and Communications Technologies -- Religious Extremist, Ideological and Nationalist Groups -- Economic Networks -- Narcotics Trafficking -- Arms Proliferation --Human Trafficking -- Organized Crime Syndicates -- The Trans-national Dimensions -- Nexus -- The Threat of Governance -- Personnel Retention and Morale -- Privatization and Accountability -- Systemic Enablers of corruption and Mismanagement -- Expectations and Realities of a {u2018}Flailing{u2019} State -- MACRO LEVEL CHALLENGES -- Perception at he Macro Level -- Perception Management in the State System -- State Perceptions: Pakistan -- State Perceptions: India{u2019}s Smaller Neighbours -- State-to-State Conflict -- International Engagements in a New Global Order -- The Indian Ocean -- Further Afield -- Nuclear Afield Nuclear Policy Utility of Nuclear Weapons in an Age of Complexity Nuclear {u2018}Strategy{u2019} Space Policy -- Civilian Development vs. Militarisation vs. Weaponisation -- Civilian Capacities -- Technology and Information in Military Affairs -- Emerging India and Strategic Culture -- MICRO-MACRO INTERACTIONS -- Nuclear Security -- Frontier Security -- Political Issues -- Logistical Issues -- Technological Drivers of Conflict -- Cyber Warfare -- Information and Its Security -- Emerging Technologies -- The Environment, Climate Change and National Security -- Rising Temperature -- Extremes and Anomalies in Weather -- Rising Sea Levels -- Himalayan Glaciers --Resource Wars --Governance of the Environment -- Poverty and Economics in the Realm of Security -- Economics as Instruments of State Policy -- Conflict Economies --The Military-Industrial Complex -- Urbanization, Migration and Development -- Poverty --The Nation and the State in the 21st Century: Perceptions at the Micro-Macro Level -- CONCLUSION: MANAGING SECURITY IN A COMPLEX AGE -- A Complex Era --An Evolutionary Systems View of National Security -- A Systems View -- Evolutionary Perspectives: Stability and Change Foresight and Action --Anticipatory Governance -- Diverse Thinking --Networked Management -- Conclusion Notes.

This book is a horizon scan of conceptual shifts in the nature of conflict. These shifts include the threat posed by networked forms of organization; the augmented role of information and perceptions in both shaping and resolving conflicts; deficits in governance as security threats; the security implications of emerging technologies, climate change and economics; emerging challenges in nuclear, space, and military strategies; and global shifts in geopolitical power and their effects on Indian strategic thinking. Security in a Complex Era concludes by proposing an alternative paradigm for conceptualizing and acting on national security: an evolutionary systems view of security that employs networked management and anticipatory governance. This book focuses on the conceptual shifts in the nature of conflicts. Most of this work is based on concept of complexity theory, which is based neither on ideology nor on the theories of realism and liberalism.