India’s Quest for Energy Through Oil and Natural Gas

Sanjay Kumar Pradhan is an Assistant Professor of International Relations, at the School of Liberal Studies, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gujarat, India. He received his postgraduate, advanced postgraduate, and Ph.D. degrees from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. During his M.Phil. (advanced postgraduate) studies, was awarded a centrally sponsored fellowship to pursue his doctorate by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Government of India. He has 14 years of teaching and research experience, teaching and guiding undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D. students in areas ranging from political science, international relations, to law. His research interests include the geopolitics of energy, energy security, resource diplomacy, international political economy, green energy, climate change & sustainable development, Africa, diaspora, gender, foreign policy, peace & conflict, and theories of international relations. He has published a book and 43 research papers in various respected journals, including the Indian Journal of Social Work, Asian Studies, Indian Foreign Affairs Journal, Journal of Peace Studies, Asian Profile, and Economic & Political Weekly.  

CHAPTER-1: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS1.1.Energy perspective in International Relations



1.2.Inextricability of Energy Security and Energy Geopolitics



1.3.Energy Security-A wider connotation



1.4.Energy Security-The Indian perspective



1.4.1. Growth of India’s Oil and Natural Gas Industry



1.4.2. Policy perspectives and geopolitical developments since 1990s



An Assessment



 



CHAPTER-2: AFRICA-EXISTING MARKET WITH PROMISING FUTURE



2.1 Oil and natural gas potentials



2.2. Nature and extent of investment



2.3. Resource diplomacy



2.4. Chinese resource diplomacy-Where does India stand?



2.5. Internal Security Challenges



2.6. The New Scramble for Resources!



2.7. Could Energy deficit hinder export?



2.8. Can India have better footprints?



An Assessment



 



CHAPTER-3. ENERGY GEOPOLITICS AND SECURITY IN WEST ASIA



3. 1. Geopolitical dynamics



3. 2. Energy- ‘Asia Bound’



3. 3. Trade and Investment



3. 4. Security Challenges



3. 4.1. Security arrangements



3. 5. Balancing the  adversaries



An Assessment



 



CHAPTER-4. CENTRAL ASIA-DOING BUSINESS IN A GEOPOLITICAL COMPLEXITY



4. 1. Historicity of relationship



4.2. Energy Potentials, Trade and Investment



4.3. Energy in ‘Connect Central Asia’ policy



4.4. The Great Game and present scenario



An Assessment



 



CHAPTER-5.THE LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (LAC)- AN INTROSPECTION



5.1. The  Potentials



5.2. Trade and  Investment



5.3. Geopolitics and  Security Challenges



5.3.1. Venezuela- Oil Curse or Oil Socialism?



5.3.2. Chinese Competition



5.3.3. Other issues



5.3.3.The LAC-neglected in foreign policy?



An Assessment



 



CHAPTER-6. OTHER REGIONS-THE UNENDING DISCOVERIES



6.1. Arctic Energy-A new frontier of risk



6.1.1. Littoral countries, global interest and harnessing of natural resources:



6.1.3. Drilling Challenges



6.1.4. Arctic Exploration and Implications on Environment



6. 1.5. The New Great Game?



6.1.6. What prospect for India?



6. 2. South China Sea-Drilling in the Troubled Waters



9.2.1. Energy potentials and Chinese claims



9.2.2. Sea lane security



9.2.3. International law and intricacy of disputes 



9.2.4. Contemporary dimensions of disputes



9.2.5. Is South China Sea in India’s energy map?



An Assessment



 



CHAPTER-7. PIPELINE-CHALLENGES MANY,  PROGRESS SLOW



7.1.  Pipeline Pursuits



7.2. Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Pipeline (TAPI)



7.2.1. Issues and Progress



7.2.2. Pipeline Implications



7. 3. Myanmar-Bangladesh-India pipeline (MBI)



7.3.1. Delayed project benefitted China



7.3.2. Gas Pipeline without Bangladesh!



7.3.3. Implications of MBI



7.4. Iran-Pakistan-India Pipeline (IPI)



7.4. 1.  Implications and Challenges 7.4.2. Undersea Pipeline option



7.5. Russia-China-India pipeline (RCI)



An Assessment



  CHAPTER-8. RUSSIA-GEOPOLITICS IN A FLUID MATRIX



8.1. Russia-The energy world leader?



8.2. ‘Asia Pivot’ Approach



8.3. Russia in India’s Hydrocarbon Map



8.4. Implications of Pipelines and Energy Trade



8.5. India on Crimean crisis



8.6. Declining crude price and western sanctions



8.7. India-US-Russia-China energy matrix 



An Assessment



 



CHAPTER-9. THE US- DESTINATION  FOR THE NEW ENERGY 



9.1. Shale energy and potentials



9.2. Shale Resources in India



9.3. US Strategic Policy Framework



9.4. Energy Trade



9.5. Implications of bilateral energy trade



9.6. Shale, OPEC and West Asia-the prospect of competition



9.7. Shale- A shift in geopolitical landscape



9.8. Shale Vs. Environment



An Assessment



 



CHAPTER-10. THE WAYFORWARD



10.1 Summary of all chapters taken together through an integrated manner



10.2. The Roadmap to promote trade and investment and ensure energy security in a geopolitical dynamics