There is widespread consensus that as two rising powers, India and China will have progressively more to do together at the regional and global levels and that their cooperation needs to be strengthened and expanded. This book represents the first occasion where academic specialists and retired military personnel from both countries have come together with serving military officers to give their views on a number of important and sensitive topics ranging from nuclear CBMs to maritime cooperation to terrorism. It is hoped that the debates engendered in this volume, will contribute to better understanding and the improvement of bilateral ties not just in the security domain but also in other fields in which the two countries are increasingly engaged.

The purpose of this collected volume of essays is to build on and contribute to the larger conceptual literature on environment and security. In particular, the book seeks to fill one of the glaring gaps within this stream of scholarship- the inadequate number of existing case studies for South Asia and its component territories. Written entirely by the leading scholars from South Asia, the book examines a region that is the setting for some of the most important environmental security challenges of our time.