India and Russia Problems in Ensuring Energy Security

Well-informed and analytically oriented, this volume incorporates select papers on energy security in India and Russia. Relating to the scenario and challenges of energy security, energy sector reforms, sustainable development and alternative energy sourcesand problems and issues in energy security and cooperation in the two countriesthe book reveals that both India and Russia view energy as a very critical aspect of economic development. With recommendations of vital import for the purpose of assuring energy security based on the Indian and Russian experience, this account will be useful to policymakers, planners, practicing managers, researchers, and postgraduate students in various disciplines.

R. K. Mishra is a senior professor and the director at the Institute of Public Enterprise in Hyderabad, as well as a member of the United Nations Taskforce. He is also a former fellow of the British Council and a former professor at the University of Bradford. Ranjit Sinha is a member secretary of the Indian Council for Social Science Research, a former consultant at Indira Gandhi Open University in New Delhi, and the former vice president of the Science Council of Asia. R. B. Rybakov is the director of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and the cochairman of the Indo-Russian Joint Commission. He is a recipient of a Padmashree, awarded by the Government of India in recognition of his magnificent services to the country.