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The concept of 'threat perception' is central to the study of International relations, as there exists a symbiotic relationship between international relations studies, foreign policy studies and defense studies. While stray articles are written on the subject, a book length treatment of the subject is uncommon. Threat perceptions are usually analyzed with reference to an individual country. Regional and global level configuration of forces is rarely touched upon. As can be readily recognized, neither threats nor their perceptions are eternally fixed. If there are no permanent friends and enemies but just permanent interests in international relations, threats and their perceptions are varied and disparate across time and space. They emanate from the dynamics of a given intra and international ambiance face by states. Since dynamics are, ipso facto, in a state of eternal flux, no long term theorizing on a universal scale sounds feasible on the subject. Yet the subject of threat perception is far too important to be left unstudied in a systematic way. In the present volume, an attempt is made to throw light on the phenomenon of threat perception from different angles. The introduction proffers theoretical understanding of the concept. An overview of the Indian sensitivities/sensibilities on the subject is then attempted. Eminent national and international scholars have attempted to cover multifarious areas/aspect/dimensions of the subject with reference to different countries and regions of the world. Top level defense personnel and journalists, besides the eminent academics, have joined this exercise of analyzing the concept of threat perception. The students, scholars, university teachers associated with international relations studies would find the book both interesting and viable in current perspective. About the Author:- Mohd. Moazzam Ali Muztarib is presently a Professor of Political Science, University of Hyderabad. His book The Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Nationality Causes was published in 2004. He did his M.Phil and Ph.D from JNU. He studied in Moscow for over two years (1982-1985). He speaks Russian. He also visited London, Brussels, East and West Berlin, Warsaw, Helsinki. He was selected by the UGC again (1992) to go to Moscow to lecture in the Institute of State and Law and the Institute of Oriental Studies. He was invited under Linnaeus Palme Scholarship programme to visit Uppsala University, Sweden. He visited Vienna, Stockolm in 2006. His visit to Paris was sponsored by Maison Des Sciences de L' Homme. He also visited Rome. He again visited Uppsala in 2008. He attended Eurasian conference in Antalya and visited Istanbul, Turkey, in November-December, 2012. He has published over 80 articles in various edited boks, research journals, magazines and newspapers besides giving many radio and TV interviews and lectures.