Revisiting National Security

Prabhakaran Paleri was the director general of the Indian Coast Guard with a naval, customs and corporate background. He is an alumnus of the National Defense University, Washington, D.C., (Hall of Fame). He has researched and authored various books and papers on strategic and corporate subjects. Presently he is an academician, researcher and discussant in his fields of expertise and interests including governance by national security, the term he examines in this study.  His previous book for Springer was Human Investment Management: Raise the Level by Capitalising Human (2017). He lives in Kozhikode, Kerala, India.

Part I   In Quest of National Security: World of Sapiens.- 1.   Humans and Human Systems: Shifting Centroid of National Security.- 2.   National Security: Concept, Evolution and Descriptive Stasis.- 3.   National Security: Definitions and Manifestations.- 4.   Threats, Risks and Uncertainty: Triad of Chaotic Balance in a Chancy, Chancy World.- 5.   Terrains and Terrain Specificity.- 6.   Elements of National Security: Gravity Centres.- 7.   Convolution of Apparent Security and Perceived Security in Governance.- 8.   Rule of Law and Role of Government —Law Making, Enforcing and National Security.- Part II   Elements of National Security.- 9.   #1   Military Security (Milsec) (ms).- 10.   #2   Economic Security (Econosec) (es1).- 11.   #3   Resource Security (Resourcesec) (rs).- 12.   #4   Border Security (Bordersec) (bs1).- 13.   #5   Demographic Security (Demosec) (ds1).- 14.   #6   Disaster Security (Disastersec) (ds2).- 15.   #7    Energy Security (Energysec) (es2).- 16.   #8   Geostrategic Security (Geosec) (gs1).- 17.   #9   Informational Security (Infosec) (is).- 18.   #10   Food Security (Foodsec) (fs).- 19.   #11 Health Security (Healthsec) (hs).- 20.   #12   Ethnic Security (Ethnicsec) (es3).- 21.   #13   Environmental Security (Envirosec) (es4).- 22.   #14 Cyber Security (Cybersec) (cs).- 23.   #15   Genomic Security (Genomesec) (gs2).- 24.  #16 Microbiomic Security (Microbiomicsec) (ms2).- Part III   Strategising National Security.- 25.   Trendlines in National Security.- 26.   Strategic National Security and National Security Strategy.- 27.   Tradeoffs in National Security Governance.- Part IV   Examining National Security.- 28.   Research Purpose—National Security Governance.- 29.   Research Factors and Questions—National Security Governance.- 30.  Assessing and Indexing National Security.- Part V   Future of Governance and Human Well-being.- 31.   Beyond National Security—Global Perspective.- 32.   Will Sapiens End? Premising Governance….- 33.   Human Well-being—Visions in Dark and Grey.- Part VI   Conclusions.- 34.   Present Imperfect—Future Perfect.- 35.   Capsuling National Security.