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The present volume is an anthology of papers presented in the first NISDA Security Conference in 2005 with interdisciplinary contributions from a variety of professionals from government organization, academics and researchers on the common theme of conceptualizing the notion of security in the 21st century. It entails a multi-pronged input from organizational, bureaucratic and academic perspectives to look at in a focused way the Indo-centric view towards the national and international security matters. It is hoped that the volume will be useful to the policymakers as well as the students of international relations and international security. About Author: Gautam Sen served the Indian Army between 1961-74. Thereafter, he resumed his postgraduate studies at McGill University and Carleton University in Canada and at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in USA. He was Ford International Fellow at Harvard University and MIT between 1979-81. He was invited to hold the Swatantryaveer Savarkar Chair Professorship in Defence Studies at Pune University in 1981, which he holds till date. He also served as Head of the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, University of Pune, from 1981-2001. He was twice Research Associate at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London and was Jean Monnet Fellow at European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is the Founder Director of National Centre of International Security and Defence Analysis (NISDA), established in 2001 with an exclusive grant from the University Grants Commission. He has extensively written on national security and international relations in the past 29 years. He is also the Honorary Director-General of the Indian Institute of Education, Pune and Visiting UGC Professor at University of Gorakhpur.