Centre for India's Neighbourhood and Internal Security Studies
The Centre for India's Neighbourhood and Internal Security Studies (CINISS) is a dedicated research centre which aims to study and research the multifaceted security dynamics surrounding India and its neighbourhood. Recognizing the need to develop research acumen, curiosity and awareness among students, CINISS is committed to an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses student-driven research on India's security challenges in both traditional and non-traditional realms, India's neighbourhood first policy, Indian foreign policy, India's extended neighbourhood, and emerging technologies and International relations.
About Centre for India's Neighbourhood and Internal Security Studies (CINISS)
The Centre for India’s Neighbourhood and Internal Security Studies (CINISS), under the umbrella of SICSSL, is a scholarly intervention into a field that has long been characterised by episodic inconsistency in analysis and imposition of externally determined discourses. In an era when the proximate neighbourhood of India is experiencing a dynamic political change, strategic rivalry and multi-layered security issues, CINISS strives to institutionalise a continued, rigorous and geographically informed knowledge base with regard to the geostrategic landscape of India.
The intellectual focus of the Centre is directly embedded in the Indian immediate & extended neighbourhood; however, not as a peripheral offshoot of world geopolitics, but as a major actor of intersection where domestic politics, regional power dynamics, and forces of the world converge. CINISS adopts an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to question this space, drawing on security studies, political economy, strategic communication, migration studies, climate research, and public policy.
What makes CINISS stand out is that it places a value on depth rather than the proximity and analytical rigour of the response. The Centre is devoted to unbundling emergent challenges, such as the hybrid and non-traditional security threats, narrative warfare and information disorder, climate-related vulnerabilities, cross-border mobility, and shifting defence postures, and placing them into local political, social, and historical perspectives. By so doing, CINISS aims at revisiting analytical asymmetries and pre-empting indigenous, evidence-based explanations of what is happening in the region.
The book is a direct expression of such an intellectual imperative. The volume, instead of providing fragmented or event-based commentary, is a compilation of continuous scholarly enquiries that together trace the changing strategic & security dynamics of India’s neighbourhood. It is designed as an underlying scholarly tool educating policy discussion, developing neighbourhood studies as a professionally significant subject and reinforcing India as a knowledge provider and constructive stabilising actor and a trustworthy partner for its neighbours.
About Centre for India's Neighbourhood and Internal Security Studies (CINISS)
The Centre for India’s Neighbourhood and Internal Security Studies (CINISS), under the umbrella of SICSSL, is a scholarly intervention into a field that has long been characterised by episodic inconsistency in analysis and imposition of externally determined discourses. In an era when the proximate neighbourhood of India is experiencing a dynamic political change, strategic rivalry and multi-layered security issues, CINISS strives to institutionalise a continued, rigorous and geographically informed knowledge base with regard to the geostrategic landscape of India.
The intellectual focus of the Centre is directly embedded in the Indian immediate & extended neighbourhood; however, not as a peripheral offshoot of world geopolitics, but as a major actor of intersection where domestic politics, regional power dynamics, and forces of the world converge. CINISS adopts an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to question this space, drawing on security studies, political economy, strategic communication, migration studies, climate research, and public policy.
What makes CINISS stand out is that it places a value on depth rather than the proximity and analytical rigour of the response. The Centre is devoted to unbundling emergent challenges, such as the hybrid and non-traditional security threats, narrative warfare and information disorder, climate-related vulnerabilities, cross-border mobility, and shifting defence postures, and placing them into local political, social, and historical perspectives. By so doing, CINISS aims at revisiting analytical asymmetries and pre-empting indigenous, evidence-based explanations of what is happening in the region.
The book is a direct expression of such an intellectual imperative. The volume, instead of providing fragmented or event-based commentary, is a compilation of continuous scholarly enquiries that together trace the changing strategic & security dynamics of India’s neighbourhood. It is designed as an underlying scholarly tool educating policy discussion, developing neighbourhood studies as a professionally significant subject and reinforcing India as a knowledge provider and constructive stabilising actor and a trustworthy partner for its neighbours.