Conceptually, maritime security is understood as a buzzward or nebulous concept in international relations which is still a matter of deliberation, description and exploration in multidimensional aspects. The transforming nature and scope of intercourses among the nations in various aspects have both deepen and broaden the idea of maritime security vertically and horizontally. Thereby, the referent object of maritime security has become one of the significant issues to be analysed and explored in the present context, where multiple factors and actors are involved in ensuring and preserving the maritime security through national as well as international efforts while adopting comprehensive strategies to encounter the emerging challenges to the same. Empirically, Gulf Maritime security has not been exception to the ongoing effects of the globalisation in both aspects. As a significant reservoir of energy resources and strategically located transportation routes through water bodies, Gulf has become region of rivalry and competition among both regional and extra-regional actors. The paper attempts to provide a comprehensive discourse on maritime security from multidimensional aspects while putting the Gulf maritime security in the centre.

This paper examines Pakistan’s nuclear security challenges in the face of the Tehreek -I-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) resurgence, political instability, and economic recession. The proximity of nuclear facilities to extremist strongholds and their ability to launch attacks pose significant risks. Political instability hampers decision-making and coordination, while economic recession strains resources. Security gaps further compound concerns. The paper recommends strengthening political stability, countering extremist groups, allocating adequate resources, enhancing international cooperation, improving insider threat mitigation, and promoting a robust security culture. Implementing these measures will enhance Pakistan’s nuclear security and mitigate the risks of nuclear terrorism. International support is crucial for regional and global nuclear security.

The Security and Growth for all in the Region (SAGAR) is a pole star for India to drive its Indo-Pacific approach. Prime Minister Modi pronounced it for the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) in 2015. Then it was extended to the Indo-Pacific Region (IPR) at the 17th Asia Security Summit – Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) 2018. This article maps out how the SAGAR Vision evolved, what has been implementing strategies and challenges to explore its key objectives, scale and institutional frameworks. In doing so, this article surveys a range of declassified official records, speeches of key leaders and leading commentaries. The article argues that the SAGAR initiative rejuvenates India’s historical ignorance of the maritime domain and provides vision to its ‘sea blindness’. It encapsulates a range of promising areas for necessary regional maritime cooperation. Given India’s geopolitical positioning and shifting pivot of global politics, the SAGAR vision and stated goals of the associate projects are a blend of India’s domestic needs, regional commitments, and global aspirations. However, to grasp all envisioned objectives of the SAGAR, it needs dedicated resource flow, associated domestic reforms and an enhanced level of coordination between various governmental agencies.

Understanding the emotional or mental stress and physical changes that women endure in war literature gives insight into the special issues they confront in conflict settings. This viewpoint illuminates the often-overlooked experiences of women who are directly or indirectly affected by warfare. War literature or trauma studies frequently investigate the complex relationship between mental and physical health. Physiological changes show how emotional discomfort may have physical consequences and vice versa. This emphasizes the significance of holistic approaches to healing and rehabilitation as it is vital to understand the mental well-being of a women. The article provides insight into the mental stress and physical changes endured by women war victims with the aid of Cannon Bard’s theory of emotion.

The developmental deficit in Northeast India vis-à-vis the rest of India is an uncontested fact acknowledged even by the Indian state. Hence, we see a concerted attempt by the state to reduce this growth disparity via the current infrastructure development drive. This paper makes the argument that the Act East Policy and the MDoNER are two facets of the current developmental state. While MDoNER focuses on fixing infrastructure links within the region, the Act East Policy provides the region with a vision for the future, one which envisages the end of the geographical isolation of the region by linking it with Southeast Asia. This paper examines the historical impact of state developmentalism in Northeast India from colonial to contemporary times. It argues that the Act East Policy of today, which is a part of the neoliberal state developmentalism, possesses a genuine prospect of transforming the region, despite facing some structural and technical impediments.

To achieve maximum security for both human and other national resources, the management of defence has become a challenge in many nations. The growing realization of the importance of optimizing the resources and maximizing the productivity of armed forces is a major goal. This attempt has led to the creation of a revolution in military affairs in many nations’ defence establishments. Since the development cost of nations and increasing population and reducing resources and global warming seem to be creating a short space of sharing resources the use of Information Technology and information revolution are becoming the new frontiers of defence and war-fighting techniques. The battle space is being reduced to the wavelengths in cyber warfare rooms. Such critical advances in technology will have a revolutionary impact on the armed forces. These modern systems have enough capability to ensure that smaller numbers have the ability to alter the course of the battles in war. This brings in the new valuation system in place and is in turn helped by the Geographical Information System, if strategic information about you and your transacting partner’s assets and lacking are to be known. Since the nature of information is a humongous volume, tracking it and deducing a particular nature of information makes GIS the ideal tool. This is so because, other than merely storing data, one can simultaneously link and provide results and assumptions for many kinds of location, cost, volume, and valuebased queries. We can define the element of GIS in warfare as an approach to armed conflict focusing on the use of management and location based information to achieve decisive military advantage in the current form of integrated intelligent information savvy battlefield. According to Sun Tzu, the General who wages war without having to resolve to actual conflict is the superior tactician. This is envisaged in his writing giving impetus to the importance of information. The relevance of application of new technologies like GIS is also added as an attribute to the Military technical revolution which is in fact a part of the larger Revolution in military affairs.