The impending removal of the piracy High Risk Area off the coast of Somalia presents an ideal opportunity for India, in partnership with the wider Indo-Pacific maritime community, to delegitimise China’s naval presence and strengthen regional mechanisms for ensuring maritime security.
Russia’s new maritime doctrine, the first policy document in Russia’s national security domain since the Ukraine conflict, reveals a bolder and more assertive Russia, and presents several opportunities for cooperation with India.
The India-Russia partnership is longstanding and time-tested, one of steadiest of the major relationships in the world. Although the relations between the two countries have remained exceptionally warm and cordial, their full potential has not been realised.
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA Captain (IN) Anurag Bisen’s Paper ‘Enhancing Maritime Security in the Bay of Bengal: Resolution of Grey Areas between India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar’ has been published online in Maritime Affairs, by Taylor & Francis, on 20 July 2022.
There are five fundamental deficiencies in India’s maritime security mechanism that will need to be addressed by the newly appointed National Maritime Security Coordinator (NMSC), to prevent a recurrence of a 26/11 scenario.
Ensuring maritime security and freedom of navigation in the Indian Ocean and the wider Indo-Pacific region is key security imperative and one of the key objectives of India’s engagement with the US and other partners.
India’s Arctic Policy can be seen as the first step towards developing a whole-of-government approach on India’s engagement with the region. The policy seems to be inclusive and participative wherein India offers its readiness to “play its part and contribute to the global good”.
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Capt (IN) Anurag Bisen’s Issue Brief ‘India–Russia Cooperation in Indian Ocean Region, Arctic and Russian Far East’ published in the MP-IDSA website was cited by the Economic Times in the article ‘India, Russia could create regional security architecture for Indian Ocean Region stability’ published on 22 December 2021.
