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Editor : R.K Mishra, Ranjit Sinha and R.B. Rybakov

Co-publisher: ICSSR, in collaboration with Academic Foundation

Publication Year : 2011

Price : 795

About the Book

This volume incorporates select papers on energy security in India and Russia relating to scenario and challenges of energy security, energy sector reforms, sustainable development and alternative energy sources, and problems and issues in energy security and cooperation in the two countries. India is facing a serious threat regarding the energy production. The higher economic growth achieved with limited energy supply is turning out to be a major contributory factor to a double-digit high rate of inflation. Russia, on the other hand, is sitting pretty on this score, owing to recent discoveries resulting in lifting energy output and making it a leading energy producer in the world. The book reveals that both India and Russia view energy as a very critical aspect of economic development.

The coming together of India and Russia could result in opening of a new chapter in the field of energy security not only for the four BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries which are emerging as a great economic force, but also for the world as a whole. The volume contains recommendations of vital import for the purpose of assuring energy security based on the Indian and Russian experience and will be useful to policymakers, planners, practising managers, researchers and postgraduate students in various disciplines.

About the Editors

R.K. Mishra is Senior Professor and Director, Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad. He has been a Fellow of British Council and Commonwealth Secretariat. He has had research stints at London Business School and Maison des Sciences de l'Hommes, Paris. He has taught at the University of Bradford, United Kingdom and was a visiting Professor at Maison des Sciences de l'Hommes, Paris. He is a member of the UN Taskforce on International Taskforce on Standards of Excellence in Public Administration and Education. His current interests include: e-governance, modernisation of state, civil service systems, financial administration, human resource administration, environmental administration, privatisation and restructuring, poverty management and good governance.

Ranjit Sinha, Member Secretary, Indian Council for Social Science Research, holds MA in Political Science, and PhD in panchayat raj, rural development. He has worked on wide range of projects focusing on crimes, anatomy of poverty and unemployment and income distribution in rural India. He was consultant, Indira Gandhi Open University, New Delhi in early 90s. He was Secretary to the Indian Delegation in Social Science to China (1984 and 1986). He was Vice President of the Science Council of Asia, 2004.

R.B. Rybakov, Director, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow is the Co-chairman of the Indo-Russian Joint Commission. He had been working for the last three decades on the strategic issues facing India and Russia and has been on the Indo-Russian Joint Commission for the last 10 years. He is a recipient of Padmashree awarded by the Government of India in recognition of his magnificent services to the country.