Associate Professor - College of Security and Global Studies
  • Publications : 12
  • Citations : 39
  • h-Index : 4
  • Last Updated : Sep/19/2024 04:49:28

  • Commander Dr. Shishir Upadhyaya (Retd.) is a former Indian naval intelligence officer. He was awarded PhD in International Relations and Security Studies from the University of Wollongong in Australia for this thesis on maritime security cooperation in the Indian Ocean region. His areas of interest broadly include maritime security developments in the Indo-Pacific region, South Asia security and defence cooperation.
  • Dr. Shishir has vast and diverse experience including the Indian Navy, industry, think tanks and academia. His naval experience includes positions of responsibility in various operational, training and staff appointments, and two command tenures at sea. As an intelligence officer, he specialised in Indo-Pacific security and defence diplomacy and worked on several important assignments earning a commendation medal by the Chief of the Naval Staff. Later he was also awarded the Fellowship of Indo-Pacific Security (FIPS) by the United States Department of Defence/ INDOPACOM at Hawaii for his research in the field of maritime security.
  • His industry experience includes senior managerial positions at leading aerospace, defence and maritime consulting companies such as IHS Markit and Lloyds in Singapore.
  • In his earlier tenures, Dr. Shishir Upadhyaya was a research fellow at the National Maritime Foundation at New Delhi, adjunct faculty the Defence Services Staff College and Associate Professor at the Gujarat Maritime University and the OP Jindal Global University.
  • Dr. Shishir is the author of India’s Maritime Strategy-Balancing Regional Ambitions and China was published by Routledge (London and New York). He has also authored numerous other books, journal articles/ book chapters and media commentaries. He is an enlisted South Asia correspondent to the world-famous Janes Defence Weekly and Navy International, and geopolitics contributor to Russia TV.

Journal

Publications
Cover Date Title Citations
Sep/02/2017 A case for a pan-Indian Ocean information grid for improved maritime domain awareness 1
Jan/01/2023 Do the AUKUS and Quad deter Chinese aggression against India? 0
Jan/02/2017 Expansion of Chinese maritime power in the Indian Ocean: implications for India 12
Jan/01/2022 Harmonizing maritime governance in the Indo-Pacific region 3
Jan/01/2024 India’s Defence Cooperation with the GCC: Role for the Indian Navy 0
Jan/02/2019 India’s maritime security relations with the gulf cooperation council countries – prospects amid rising Chinese influence 5
Jan/01/2024 Indian Navy–the guardian of the Indian Ocean 0
Jan/01/2023 Indo-Pacific Ocean Initiative - an opportunity to create new institutions for maritime governance 0
Jan/01/2014 Maritime security cooperation in the Indian Ocean Region: The role of the Indian Navy 10
Jan/02/2016 Multilateral maritime security cooperation in the Indian Ocean region: status and prospects 7
Jan/01/2022 Naval humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) operations in the Indo-Pacific region: need for fresh thinking 0

Book

Publications
Cover Date Title Citations
Jan/01/2019 India's Maritime Strategy: Balancing Regional Ambitions and China 1

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