The Centre promotes research, teaching and other academic
programmes on the following areas of concern to Indian national
interests. Considering India’s strategic location across the eastwest
SCLOCS of the IOR, the Centre promotes studies on India’s
role in ensuring the safety of SLOCs, trade, energy security and
cooperative linkages with other coastal states to combat the
maritime threats and maintain a peaceful and stable order in the IOR
1. Maritime jurisdiction, resources, cooperation and conflicts
with neighbours
2. Non-traditional threats to India’s maritime security: piracy,
maritime terrorism, environmental threats
3. Building maritime connectivity, merchant shipping,
development of maritime infrastructure, national maritime
development policy, foreign collaborative ventures.
4. India and Indian Ocean Security Regime
5. India and the Regional Initiatives
