Security is a wide concept that has multiple dimensions that pertain not only to national security but also become an essential factor for human well being and progress. A range of threats to the survival and development of people, societies, and the global communities is now included in the ambit of discussions on security. In the current global scenario, many new dimensions of security have emerged that range from national security to human security, which expanded its content and definition. This manifests in a wide range of interconnected issues like climate change, food insecurity, pandemics, and terrorism, making the study of security imperative and relevant.

The Asian security milieu has a great impact on South Asia, the Asia-Pacific region and the world at large. The region is confronted with many complex and daunting challenges like the denuclearization of North Korea, international terrorism, tensions in the Taiwan Strait, Chinese aggression, and assertion of sovereignty in the South China Sea. These issues have resulted in severe repercussions on the regional security structure.  Beside these factors, recent developments in Afghanistan, emerging trends in transnational terror networks, sectarian violence, drug trafficking and illegal migration are issues that have created deep security concerns in the region. Therefore, a deeper understanding of Asia’s security aspect has become indispensable for the economic progress, peace, and stability of this region.

The concept of this book is to focus on the security issues in the Asian context because the road to global peace and stability in the 21st century passes through this region making it a new locus of international affairs and the centre of power-politics in which security is mostly influenced by geopolitical factors. The emergence of China as a powerful nation has also been a very significant strategic event of this century, which is affecting the entire security framework of the region. Against this backdrop of the security concerns of Asia, an honest effort has been made to analyze some of the major issues of security at one place.

Sarika Dubey, an alumna of the University of Allahabad and Central University of Prayagraj, has been amongst the most visible faces and stalwarts of the academic and social representation of political science in recent times. She has spent more than a decade in teaching Political Science   with expertise on foreign policy, strategic affairs and peace studies. She is also actively involved in projects for promotion of female literacy and Indian culture. Currently, her erudite scholarship and versatility earned her the designation of Principal of Krishna Devi Girls Degree College, Lucknow.

Having and enriching experience of more than 18 years in academics, she has ceaselessly inspired many scholars by involving herself in multifarious activities, both socially and academically. She has delivered several talks in national and international conferences in India and abroad and represented her institution on the international platform.  Because of her invaluable contributions in her field, she was recently felicitated by the much coveted “Young Social Scientist Award” by Malaya University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and was honoured several times with innumerable other awards like ‘Pratibha Samman’, Innovative Teacher Skill Award and many more. Her prolific writing has gained much recognition. She has so far authored four books published by renowned publishers.  She has also contributed as an editor to “Current Issues in World Politics” and more than four dozen research papers and articles of hers have been published in reputed national and international journals. At present, she is engaged in an important project of the UP State Government, “Cultural and National Unification of India through ‘Mahaparv Kumbh’.”