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GIGA Research Programme:
Power, Norms and Governance in International Relations
___________________________
Measuring Geopolitical Power in India:
A Review of the National Security Index (NSI)
Karl Hwang
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MeasuringGeopoliticalPowerinIndia:
AReviewoftheNationalSecurityIndex(NSI)
Abstract
ThisreviewexamineshowIndiaperceivesitsownrisetopowerbyundertakingadetailed
analysisoftheIndianNationalSecurityIndex(NSI)fortheperiodfrom2003to2008.Like
otherpowerformulas,theNSIincludesvariousindicatorsofpower,thoughitisuniquely
Indian in that it initially emphasized human development and later included ecology
basedonaholistichumansecurityparadigm.Theanalysisdemonstratesthatthisholistic
approachhasnowbeenabandonedinfavorofamoreconventionalone,andthatthetech
nical formulas and theoretical concepts of the NSI exhibit various inconsistencies and
problems. In particular, one can recognize the absolute need for a unified standard for
handlingvariablesintheconstructionofcompositeindexesingeneral.
Keywords: India,geopolitics,statistics,powerformula,powerindex,humansecurity
KarlHwang
isaPh.D.studentattheGIGAGermanInstituteofGlobalandAreaStudiesandtheUni
versityofHamburg.
Contact: conducator@gmail.com
Website: http://conducator.jimdo.com/
GIGAWP136/2010
Zusammenfassung
DasMessengeopolitischerMachtinIndien:EinekritischeAnalysedesNationalen
Sicherheitsindexes(NSI)
DieseStudieuntersuchtdurcheinedetaillierteAnalysedesNationalenSicherheitsindexes
(NSI)frdenZeitraumderJahre2003bis2008,wieIndiensichselbstwahrnimmt.DerNSI
bestehtwieandereMachtformelnauchausverschiedenenIndikatorenfrMacht,doch
isterspezifischindischinsofern,alserseinenSchwerpunktursprnglichaufdiemensch
liche Entwicklung legte und erst spter die kologie auf Grundlage eines ganzheitlichen
Paradigmas der menschlichen Sicherheit mit einbezog. Die Analyse zeigt, dass dieser
ganzheitlicheAnsatzzugunsteneineseherkonventionellenWegesaufgegebenwurdeund
dass die technischen Formeln und theoretischen Konzepte des NSI verschiedene Wider
sprche und Probleme aufzeigen.Allgemein ist zu erkennen, dass ein einheitlicher Stan
dard im Umgang mit den Variablen bei der Zusammensetzung von Indizes unbedingt
notwendigist.
MeasuringGeopoliticalPowerinIndia:
AReviewoftheNationalSecurityIndex(NSI)
KarlHwang
ArticleOutline
1 Introduction
2 GeopoliticalChallengesinIndiasQuestforGreatpowerStatus
3 TheRoleofPowerinKautilyasArthashastra
4 TheInstitutionalBackgroundoftheNSI
5 PossibleInspirationsbehindtheNSI
6 FromNationalSecuritytoHumanSecurity
7 TheHumanDevelopmentIndexandtheEnvironmentalVulnerabilityIndex
8 TheLackofaUnifiedStandardintheCalculationoftheNSI
9 The Trend in the Composition of the NSI Towards the Abandonment of Human
Security
10 ReceptionandCritiquesoftheNSI
11 Conclusion
1 Introduction
Powerindexesdontmeasurepowerassuch;rather,theymeasurepowerasitisperceivedby
their designers. Michael Pillsbury undertook a groundbreaking study on Chinese power
formulasin2000.Hejustifiedhisundertakingbyemphasizingthatitisnecessarytoappreci
ateChineseviewsasuniqueandnotmerelyasamirrorimageofAmericanviews(Pills
bury 2000: xv). In order to do so Pillsbury used the analogy of studies on the Soviet Union
andquotedAndrewMarshall,whohasbeendirectoroftheOfficeofNetAssessmentinthe
USDepartmentofDefensesince1973:
Sovietcalculationsarelikelytomakedifferentassumptionsaboutscenariosandobjec
tives [] perform different calculations, use different measures of effectiveness, and
perhaps use different assessment processes and methods. The result is that Soviet as
sessments may substantially differ from American assessments. (Marshall, quoted in
Pillsbury2000:xv)
6 KarlHwang:MeasuringGeopoliticalPowerinIndia
TheAmerican international relations (IR) theories neorealism and offensive realism assume
thatthereisauniversalrationalitybehindstatesquestforpower;thetheoriesdifferonlyin
theirapproachestoriskbehavior(seeMearsheimer:1722).Incontrast,advocatesofstrategic
culturepointoutthatelitesconditionedbydifferentculturalenvironmentsmaymakediffer
entchoiceswhenplacedinsimilarsituations(Johnston1995:35,38).Rankedpreferencesare
one method for determining strategic culture (Johnston 1995: 48). Power indexes are gener
ally a more tangible source of information because the preferences are already quantified
andweighted;byknowingthedetailsofpowerformulasonemaythusinfernationalpriori
tiesandpossiblymakepredictionsregardingnationalstrategy.
Powerformulaspartlyexpresstheidiosyncraticviewsoftheirdesigners,partlyexpress
theculturallybasedpreferencesandprioritiesoftheirrespectivesociety,andpartlyexpress
theuniversalpursuitofpowerintheformofcapabilityandresources.Whilepowerformulas
rarely come along with explicitly new perspectives and definitions, they may contain new
variables and new methods of calculation, which appear to be the most important aspects
whenstudyingthevariouspowerindexes.
It can be assumed that any nonomniscient Being (i.e. any frail human being) proba
blycanneverapprehendthetrueobjectivefact(Kent1951:42),butsubjectivitymayindeed
be useful in contributing new ideas from previously ignored perspectives. The National Se
curityIndex(NSI),whichwasdevelopedbytheIndianNationalSecurityCouncilSecretariat
in2002,hasanIndianflavor:itinitiallyemphasizedhumandevelopmentandlaterincluded
ecology,asIndiawherethepopulationdensityishigherthaninJapanisknownformass
povertyandovercrowding.ItistemptingtosuspectthatIndianIRanalystsingeneralwould
beratherfondofGDPatpurchasingpowerparity(PPP)ratherthanattheofficialexchange
rate (OER) as this would immediately triple their economic size, but such a general subjec
tivepreferencecannotbeconfirmed.
1
The argument could be made that Indian power indexes are relevant because India is
increasinglyrelevant,butthiswouldthenimplythatthepowerindexesofsmallercountries
arelessrelevant.TheIndianpowerindexesmayberegardedasasymptomofIndiasascen
dancytoglobalpower,butanyhypotheticalattributionofpowerindexestogrowthinpower
can be expected to suffer from selfselection bias, which means that the increased public
availabilityofsomeindexesdatavisvislessavailableindexesdistortsperception.Indians
have most likely constructed power indexes before, and it may simply be the Internet that
makes those Indian power indexes constructed nowadays internationally traceable. Pre
Internet Indian power indexes may never be resuscitated without considerable research on
thepartofIndianscholarsthemselves.
1
TheNSIusesOER.TheIndianeconomistArvindVirmanidevelopedhisownpowerindexin2004/05;here
peatedlyinsiststhatPPPisthebettermeasureandresentsanynotionthatOERmaybeasgoodorbetter.The
basis for his claim is a rather unconcealed nationalist bias regarding the ranking of India (see Virmani 2004,
2005a,2005b,2005c,2005d).
KarlHwang:MeasuringGeopoliticalPowerinIndia 7
Thepaperisstructuredasfollows:sections2&3seektobrieflyilluminatethecontext
oftheNSI.Theobjectiveofthesesectionsisto,ingeneralterms,connecttheNSItoIndiaas
far as the latters greatpower aspirations and strategic culture are concerned. Section 2 ex
plains Indias attempt to attain greatpower status and its economic performance. Section 3
returns to Indias strategic culture, looking at the role of power in the Arthashastra by Kau
tilya,whichisthekeytextinthisrespect.
Sections4to7seektoconnecttheNSItoitsspecificinstitutionalandtheoreticalroots.
Section4examinestheinstitutionaloriginoftheNSIasthebasisforitsdevelopment.Section
5tracestheideationalrootsandintellectualheritagethatculminatedinthedevelopmentof
the NSI in order to distinguish the intellectual baggage from preceding efforts in power
measurementbyotheranalystsfromthefreshimpulsesofthedesignersoftheNSI.Section6
focusesonthetheoreticalbasisfortheuniqueemphasisoftheearlyNSIonhumansecurity
as well as on the conceptual problematic involved. Section 7 looks critically at the Human
DevelopmentIndex(HDI)andtheEnvironmentalVulnerabilityIndex(EVI)astheseindexes
wereintegratedintotheearlyNSIwithitsfocusonhumansecurity.
Section8maybeofinterestonlytoexpertsonthetechnicalaspectsofpowerformulas.
However, it is crucial to understanding why the NSI has not managed to produce satisfac
tory numbers. Section 9 demonstrates through thematic weighting and correlation analysis
howtheNSIhaseffectivelyabandoneditsoriginalemphasisonhumansecurityandlooksat
possiblereasonsforthis.Section10investigateshowtheNSIhasbeenreceivedaswellasthe
criticismsofit.Thelattermaycontainsuggestionsforfurtherimprovement.Section11con
cludes the inquiry by looking at the two big issues facing the NSI, which are (1) the inclu
sion/exclusion of human security and (2) the inadequacy of results due to the absence of a
unifiedcalculationstandard,andofferssuggestionsforfurtherresearch.
ForreaderswhowanttoseethefivepublishedversionsoftheNSIitself,AppendixA
provides details on the indexs changing composition. The complete results of the five pub
lishedindexescanbefoundinAppendixB.
2 GeopoliticalChallengesinIndiasQuestforGreatpowerStatus
IhaveaTHIRDvision.Indiamuststanduptotheworld.BecauseIbelievethatunless
India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. Only strength respects strength.
We must be strong not only as a military power but also as an economic power. Both
mustgohandinhand.
AvulPakirJainulabdeenAbdulKalam
EleventhPresidentofIndia(20022007),2006
IntheindexofMearsheimersTheTragedyofGreatPowerPoliticsfrom2001,onefinds65en
triesforthePeoplesRepublicofChinaand3entriesforIndia(Mearsheimer2001:538,543),a
fact which is symptomatic for the low prestige that India has suffered so far. Yet in recent
yearsithasbecomeincreasinglyfashionabletolaudIndiasascendancetotherankofglobal
power (Basu 2008: 396). The problem is pinpointing the timing of Indias entry into the
leagueofgreatpowers.ThePokhranIInucleartestsfromMay1113,1998couldrepresenta
suitable date, but only because India successfully weathered the resulting sanctions. These
tests were surely meant to validate Indias claim to greatpower status (Nayar/Paul: 27;
Perkovich2003:5).
2
In contrast, Indias low point in economic development may be established as 1979,

thoughrelativetoChinathedifferenceinwealthhasneverbeenasgreatastoday.Thetime
period19471979wasmarkedbyFabiansemisocialism,lesssointermsofownershipthanin
terms of control through the illfamed Licence Raj.
3
The relatively stable per capita growth
rateofjustover1percentduringthisperiodbecameknownastheHindurateofgrowth.
Moderate reforms were initiated in the 1980s; however, large fiscal deficits during this time
period spilled over into the trade deficit and thus brought about a serious balance of pay
mentscrisisin1991,whentheIndiangovernmentwasclosetodefaultonitsexternalobliga
tions.Thiscrisissparkedthepushformoredrasticreformsaimedatfurthereconomicliber
alization from 1991 to 1993. Compared to its unsustainable growth track of the 1980s, India
nowlookstobeonasustainablepathasallcriticaldebtratios
4
havedevelopedinafavorable
direction.
Countlessscholarshaveemphasizedtheimportanceofwarinprovingnationalpower.
KarlHaushofer
5
statedthattheultimatetestofnationalstrengthiswar(Haushofer1913:8);
George Perkovich stated in a more recent lecture on India that war provides the empirical
test of military power (Perkovich 2003: 14, 2004: 136); and Chang ChinLung referred to
oneonone allout conflicts, as the acid test for power equations (Chang 2004: 21). India
2
In this regard the role of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) elites in pushing for an overt nuclear program in
1998 can also be mentioned. The BJP bases its ideology on Hindutva, which demands Hindu nationalism,
one nation, one religion, and one country. Its ideology comes from the Arthashastra and states that India
shouldbestrong.ApertinentbookonthisissueisChristopheJaffrelot,ed.2007.HinduNationalism:AReader.
Delhi:PermanentBlack.
3
TheLicenceRaj(19471990)referstoabureaucraticsystemthatsetquotasforbusinessesastohowmuchofa
certainproducttheywereallowedtomanufacture.Thequantityofgoodswasthereforenotdeterminedfreely
bysupplyanddemand.
4
That is (1) Debt StockGDP Ratio 19901991: 28.7; 19992000: 22.0; (2) DebtService Ratio 19901991: 35.3;
19992000: 16.0; (3) DebtExports Ratio 19901991: 491.7; 19992000: 258.6; (4) Shortterm Debt/Total Debt
19901991: 10.3; 19992000: 4.1; and (5) Shortterm Debt/Foreign Currency Reserves 19901991: 382.3; 1999
2000:11.5(Baru2003:186187).
5
Karl Haushofer has been much criticized over the connection between German geopolitics and Nazi expan
sion; nevertheless, geopolitics has been regaining some of its popularity, which also encourages a differenti
ated treatment of this particular issue. When asked about Karl Haushofer, prominent American IR expert
Parag Khanna stated recently in an interview that Germany was indeed an essential pillar of geopolitical
thought.[]Ofcoursewecanusetheoldgeopoliticalterms[authorsretranslation](Khanna2010:45).
wasclearlybeateninthebriefSinoIndianWarin1962;Vietnamperformedbetterinthebrief
SinoVietnamese War in 1979. Historically, major victories and major defeats have been the
entryandexitpointsformembershipintheleagueofgreatpowers,sothepressingproblem
forIndiaistheabsenceofapeacefulmechanismforrisingpowerstogainacceptanceinthe
internationalhierarchy(Nayar/Paul2003:78,35).
Figure1:PerCapitaGDPPPPforChinaandIndiaasPercentageofPerCapitaGWPPPP
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
1950 1958 1966 1974 1982 1990 1998 2006
China
India
Source: Maddison2009.
Greatpowerstatusmaywellbeanarbitraryjudgment;mostdefinitionsofitareneartauto
logical, employing arbitrary cutoffs as to capability and timing (see Levy 1983: 1119).
Mathematicallytheissueisoneofdeterminingthresholdsfordividingcountriesintodiver
gent classes with emerging attributes clearly associated with a higher level of capability.
6
A
promisingindicatorofgreatpowercapabilitymaybethelevelofemploymentinarmspro
duction; thus, the five members of the UN Security Council happened to also be the five
countrieswiththelargestemploymentinarmsproductionaslateas2003.Armsproduction
isIndiasweakpointasitisheavilydependentonexternalsuppliersformajorweaponssys
temssuchasfighteraircraftandadvancedmunitions(Nayar/Paul2003:44).
6
FortheapplicationoftheHerfindahlHirschmanindexofconcentrationtodeterminearatherabstractsystem
threshold,seeHwang2008a:18.
Table1:EstimatedLevelofEmploymentinArmsProduction,2003
Country Employees
UnitedStates 2,700,000
China 2,100,000
Russia 780,000
France 240,000
UnitedKingdom 200,000
Ukraine 180,000
India 170,000
NorthKorea 120,000
Germany 80,000
Japan 80,000
Source: SIPRIdatabase2009(originalsource:BonnInternationalCenterforConversion).
ManyIndiansinsistasamatterofprinciplethatIndiadeservesapermanentseatontheUN
Security Council. China seems to act as an obstacle to this aim (Perkovich 2004: 142;
Nayar/Paul: 12). Brazil and Germany are geographically far away from China, so two per
manent seats for Brazil and Germany would have no direct bearing for China. However,
givenIndiasandJapansgeopoliticalpositionsasChinasdirectneighborsandcompetitors,
ChinacannotreallybenefitfromsupportingIndiaandJapan.PerkovichputstheIndianchal
lengethisway:
OnemeasureofIndiandiplomacyinthefuturewillbehowiteitherlowersthevalueof
aSecurityCouncilseatandthereforemakesIndiaspowerrankingindependentofsuch
aposition,oralternativelyhowIndiaattainsaseat.(Perkovich2003:19)
IndiansmayliketoimagineIndiaasavegetarianelephant(seeVirmani2005a:8),butsooner
or later frustrated impatience could possibly lead to adventurism.
7
Some may assert Indias
peaceful nature, especially as a democracy, but democratic peace theory merely states that
democraciesdontfightotherdemocracies(seeMearsheimer2001:16),andasIndiasneigh
borsarentdemocracies,theyremainpartofthedevaluedoutgroup,andlegitimatetargets
ofviolence(Johnston1995:6061).Indiansunderstandablyresistthedisadvantagesofbeing
underestimated but seem to forget that being considered too powerful too soon might be
worse.TheChinesehavewiselyfollowedDengXiaopings24CharacterStrategy
8
inorderto
avoidpreemptivecontainmentstrategies.
7
CharuMajumdar(19181972)mosteloquentlyexpressedthisfrustratedimpatienceinthecontextofguerrilla
warfare:Merecollectionofarmsdoesnotalterthecharacterofstrugglethegunscollectedhavetobeused
(Majumdar19651967:VIII).
8
Translatedasobservecalmly;secureourposition;copewithaffairscalmly;hideourcapacitiesandbideour
time;begoodatmaintainingalowprofile;andneverclaimleadership(USDOD2007:6).
3 TheRoleofPowerinKautilyasArthashastra
GiventhattheArthashastraisthekeytextonIndianstrategicculture,itisexpedienttosaya
littleabouttheroleofpowerinit.Kautilyalivedcirca350283BC.Hewaslargelyresponsible
forthecreationoftheMauryanEmpireinhisroleasadvisorandprimeministertothefirst
Maurya emperor, Chandragupta. In addition, he was a professor at Takshashila University.
KautilyawrotetheArthashastraasatreatiseonstatecraft.AccordingtoRogerBoesche,itis
abookofpoliticalrealism,abookanalysinghowthepoliticalworlddoesworkandnot
veryoftenstatinghowitoughttowork,abookthatfrequentlydisclosestoakingwhat
calculatingandsometimesbrutalmeasureshemustcarryouttopreservethestateand
thecommongood.(Boesche2002:17)
ForKautilyapoweristhemeansandnottheend,sostrengthispower,andhappinessisthe
end. [] Hence a king shall always endeavor to augment his own power and elevate his
happiness(Kautilya,Arthashastra6.2).Further,thepossessionofaprosperoustreasuryand
a strong army is the strength of sovereignty (Kautilya, Arthashastra 6.2). As for the seven
constituents of the state, Kautilya listed Swamy (King), Amatya (Prime Minister), Jana
pada(populatedterritory),Durga(fort),Ksha(treasury),Bala(force/army)andMitra(ally)
(Naik2004).
Fortheaugmentationofpowerthegeneralruleappliesthatwhoeverisinferiortoan
other shall make peace with him; whoever is superior in power shall wage war (Kautilya,
Arthashastra7.1),sopoweristhebasisfortheacquisitionofmorepower.Forsuccessfulwar
fare the conqueror should know the comparative strength and weakness of himself and of
his enemy (Kautilya, Arthashastra 9.1), and comparison entails measurement according to
SunZi.
9
Asfortheimportantconnectionbetweeneconomicsandmilitarymatters,SanjayaBaru
hasrecentlyreiteratedKautilyasargumentasfollows:
The management of theeconomy, and of the treasury, has been a vital aspect of state
craft from time immemorial. Kautilyas Arthashastra says, From the strength of the
treasurythearmyisborn.[]menwithoutwealthdonotattaintheirobjectiveseven
after hundreds of trials [] Only through wealth can material gains be acquired, as
elephants(wild)canbecapturedonlybyelephants(tamed)[]Astatewithdepleted
resources, even if acquired, becomes only a liability. Hence, economic policies and
performancedohavestrategicconsequences.(Baru2009)
9
Sun Zi (circa 544496 BC) had in mind a procedural chain: The rules of the military are five: measurement,
assessment,calculation,comparison,andvictory.Thegroundgivesrisetomeasurements,measurementsgive
rise to assessments, assessments give rise to calculations, calculations give rise to comparisons, comparisons
giverisetovictory(SunTzu,TheArtofWar:4).
4 TheInstitutionalBackgroundoftheNSI
Given that every power index is the idiosyncratic product of its author and its institutional
environment, some information regarding which people and institutions the NSI has de
pended on in its formation and evolution is provided here. This provides some context re
gardingthemotivationsandviewpointsthatwentintotheNSI.
The National Security Council (NSC) was set up on November 19, 1998 to overcome
structural deficiencies in the coordination of national security. The council originally in
cludedthenewlycreatednationalsecurityadvisor(NSA);theministersofdefense,external
affairs, home, and finance; and the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission. The Na
tionalSecurityCouncilSecretariat(NSCS)wasestablishedinApril1999andsucceeded,with
expanded responsibility, the existing Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), which had been
largelylimitedtoproducingamonthlyintelligencereview(Chandra2006:209,215).
ThenationalistBharatiyaJanataParty(BJP),withAtalBihariVajpayeeasprimeminis
ter, had come to power on March 19, 1998, two months before the PokhranII nuclear tests
from May 1113, 1998. It had then established a task force to study the national security
mechanisms of other countries and to submit recommendations on revamping the Indian
system, the result being the NSC and other subgroupings (Raman 2004, 2005). Apurba
Kundu comments that in a marked departure from previous national governments, those
ledbytheBharatiyaJanataParty(BJP)soughttoaddressnationalsecurityissuesbothproac
tively and strategically in line with the partys philosophy of achieving a strong India
(Kundu2004a:4).
Satish Chandra served as chairman of the JIC from January 1999 to April 1999, and
thenasdeputyNSAandsecretaryoftheNSCSfromApril1999toFebruary2005.Heempha
sizesthattheNSCwasintendedtobegearedtowardsamoreholisticviewofnationalsecu
rity that included issues like good governance, health, water management, environment,
technology or even the economy in addition to conventional topics such as insurgencies
andlawandorder,terrorism,foreignpolicy,etc.(Chandra2006:202,seealso207).Inaddi
tiontoevaluatingtheintelligencecollectedbyotheragencies,theNSCSbecameaquasithink
tankthatinitiatedpapersonhumansecurityaswellasnationalsecurity(Chandra2006:217).
TheNSIappearstohavebeenoneoutgrowthofthesecretariatsassertivecreativity.
Thereappearstohavebeensomeinstitutionalresentmentbetweenthetraditionalmin
istries and the newly established NSC and NSCS as a result of their different outlooks.
Chandra states that regrettably, the political and bureaucratic leadership continues to re
mainweddedtoadamagecontrolmoderatherthanamorecerebrallongtermpolicyevolu
tionmode(Chandra2006:224).TherelativelynewNSCSseemstohavelostoutinthisinsti
tutionalpowerstruggle:ministrieshavenotsoughtadvicefromitonaroutinebasis,andit
hasnotbeeninformedonallrelevantissues(Chandra2006:224225).Thereturntopowerof
theleftleaningIndianNationalCongress(INC)partyonMay22,2004hasnothelpedeither.
ThedeputychairmanofthePlanningCommissionisnolongeramemberoftheNSC,andthe
JIChasbeenrevivedincompetitionwiththeNSC;theNSChadoriginallyreplacedtheJIC.
As one of its many projects, the NSCS has funded the Indias National Security Annual
Review (INSAR) series, though it has been clearly stated in each volume that the views ex
pressed in the INSAR are not those of NSCS. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
joinedasanothersponsorstartingwiththeINSAR2004.TheaimoftheINSARistobringto
getheressaysondifferentnationalsecurityissuesaswellastoprovideareviewofeventsfor
aparticularyear.RegardingtheINSAR,thefirstNSA,BrajeshChandraMishra,stated,we
haveabookwhichtakesaholisticandintegratedviewofinternalandexternalsecuritychal
lengesbeingfacedbyIndia(Kumar2004a:jacket).WiththeINSAR2008,publishedin2009,
theseriesnowconsistsofeightvolumes.
SatishKumarhasbeeneditoroftheINSARsinceitsinceptionin2000.
10
Hewasbornin
1933,andfrom1961to1998hewasaprofessorofdiplomacyatJawaharlalNehruUniversity
(JNU)in NewDelhi.Hehaswrittenseveralbooks,especiallyonPakistan,andhastraveled
toseveralcountriesasavisitingscholar.HeisconsideredoneofIndiaspreeminentIRschol
arsandhastrainedmanycadresofIndiasForeignServicethroughhispositionatJNU.
Kumar is most often associated with the NSI, though the original idea as well as the
firstindexweredevelopedbytheNSCS.KumarwasthenaskedbytheNSCStocontinuethe
projectandtoupdatetheindexeitherannuallyorperiodically.Sincehehasrevisedtheindex
four times in consultation with a subgroup of the INSAR editorial board. The NSI has been
publishedirregularly:itwaspublishedfor2002,2003,2004,2006,and2007,butwasnotpub
lishedfor2005and2008.EconomicexpertsfromJNUhavedonethecalculationsfortheindex.
5 PossibleInspirationsbehindtheNSI
The original NSI was published inthe INSAR 2002; however, in the first INSAR 2001 Satish
Kumaralreadyexhibitedadeterminedinterestinquantificationmeasures:
Any national security review would require that an ongoing assessment of the power
profileofthenationismade.Itmaynotbepossibletoassessallthecomponentsofna
tional power at a given time, or quantify all of them.And yet, it is worthwhile to at
temptasmanyaspossible.(Kumar2002:21)
InthisregardalltheINSARpublications,from2001to2008,haveincludedastatisticssection
unrelatedtotheNSI.Thoughnodirectlinkexists,thepatternisreminiscentoftheZeitschrift
fr Geopolitik [Journal for Geopolitics], published from 1924 to 1944, which also regularly fea
10
Satish Kumar looked at the initial draft of this working paper and kindly contributed many comments and
suggestionsthatcorroboratesomeoftheinformationpresentedhere.
tured sections on statistics.

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Geopolitics has been understood from the very beginning as a
practical and empirical science as opposed to excessively abstract theorizing (see Ratzel
1923:1; also Hwang 2008b: 101102). A geopolitical triangle consisting of geography, statis
tics,andinternationalpoliticscanbedepicted.GiventhattheINSARseekstoprovidepracti
cal information and guidance for longterm policies and emphasizes geography, as can be
seeninthemaponIndiasstrategicneighborhood(Kumar2006:318,2007:xxi),alongsideits
regularstatisticssection,itsstructuralpatternsandemphasesareunquestionablyinthetra
ditionofgeopolitics.
Intermsofaroughgenealogicaloutline(seeHwang2008a:59),theinspirationforthis
powerindexmostlikelycamefromtheUnitedStatesandChina.TheUnitedStateshashad
somethingofacrossreferencingquantitativecommunitypartiallyconcernedwiththemeas
urement of power at least since 1960. From the late 1980s onwards the Chinese have devel
oped a vibrant community focused on measuring comprehensive national power (CNP);
they took their inspiration from the United States and Japan. India has not yet developed a
community proper concerned with the measurement of power, but this index could be a
creativesparkinthisdirection.
Satish Kumar alreadymentioned the Tellis approach in the INSAR 2001 (Kumar2002:
2021);itseemslikelythatthisapproach,publishedbytheRANDCorporation,awellknown
American think tank, in 2000, was widely known at that point and may have inspired the
construction of the NSI. It measures national power according to three realms: national re
sources, national performance, and military capability. Each realm consists of numerous
variables.TheTellisapproachhasnotproducedaworkingformulaorresultssincethattime,
possiblyduetoquantificationproblemsencounteredintransformingagreatdealofmeticu
louslydetailedtheory(212pages!)intopracticallyusefulcalculations(seeTellisetal.2000a,
2000b).IntheintroductiontotheNSI2003KumarstatesinregardtotheTellisapproachthat
itisobviousthatallthesefactorsarenotquantifiable(Kumar2004b:228).
ThesameintroductiontotheNSI2003alsomentionsMichaelPillsburysworkonChi
nesegeopoliticalpowercalculationsregardingCNPstartinginthelate1980s(Kumar2004b:
228229).BeforePillsburysworkinEnglish,accesstoinformationonChinasvibrantefforts
in the calculation of CNP was limited to Chineselanguage sources. Like the Tellis paper,
Pillsburys work was published in 2000, but it is not clear whether it received the same im
mediate publicity in India. While Satish Kumar focused on the CNP formula from the Chi
nese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), he didnt show any interest in the other CNP in
dexes,norinthepowerindexesbyWilhelmFucks,RaySteinerCline,andtheJapanesegov
ernment,allofwhichinspiredtheChinese(seePillsbury2000:225226).TheCASSindexwas
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Statistics was mostly defined as statecraft (Staatskunde) until 1850, while from 1850 onwards most defini
tions considered statistics a methodological science. Hybrid definitions fall mostly into the period 18461854
(Klezl1940:12).InEnglandstatisticswasknownaspoliticalarithmeticbefore1798,whentheGermanword
Statistikwasthenimportedasstatistics(Witt1993:12).
createdbyWangSongfen;itconsistedof64variablesgroupedintoeightmajorareas,asout
linedinTable2.
Table2:WeightedCoefficientsofMajorComponentFactors
NationalPowerFactor WeightedCoefficient
TotalCNP 1.00
Naturalresources 0.08
Economicactivitiescapability 0.28
Foreigneconomicactivitiescapability 0.13
Scientificandtechnologicalcapability 0.15
Socialdevelopmentlevel 0.10
Militarycapability 0.10
Governmentregulationandcontrolcapability 0.08
Foreignaffairscapability 0.08
Source: Pillsbury 2000: 229 (original source: Wang Songfen, ed. 1996. Shijie zhuyao guojia zonghe guoli bijiao
yanjiu[Comparativestudiesofthecomprehensivenationalpoweroftheworldsmajornations].Chang
sha:Hunanchubanshe,169).
SimilartohiscommentontheTellisapproach,Kumarstatesthatmanyofthesefactorsare
againnotquantifiable(Kumar2004b:229),whichisnottrue,astotalCNPvalueshavebeen
calculated using the CASS formula. Thus Kumar is probably referring to factors for which
expertshadtobesurveyed.Itcanbearguedthatperceptionvaluesarelessreliablethanma
terialdata,whileatthesametimeperceptionsurveysaremuchmorework.Intermsofbasic
structure the CASS is not far away from the NSI, and according to Pillsbury it is not clear
whethertheCASSindexusesaunifiedstandardforhandlingaggregatesandpercapitaval
ues. Sanjaya Baru (former media adviser to the prime minister) comments that based on
suchconcepts,theINSARsNationalSecurityIndex(NSI)forIndiaisanattempttoconstruct
asimplerindex(Baru2005:113).
ThesocialdevelopmentlevelintheCASSformulaconsistsof(1)educationallevel,(2)
culturallevel,(3)healthcarelevel,(4)communications,and(5)urbanization(Pillsbury2000:
221).AssuchitprecededtheNSIinusinghumansecurityvariables,buthumansecurityfig
ures account for perhaps 5 percent of the index; this small percentage does not indicate a
consciousparadigmshift.Incontrast,humansecurityintheoriginalNSIstoodat26.67per
cent,awhoppingdifferencefromtheCASSindex.
Chinese scholars were quite fond of the Growth Competitiveness Index (GCI) pub
lished annually by the World Economic Forum in the Global Competitiveness Report (GCR).
The GCI focused on macroeconomic conditions and was complemented by the Business
Competitiveness Index (BCI), which focused on microeconomic conditions; both were re
vamped and consolidated into a new Global Competitiveness Index in 2004 (see Bandura
2008:42).Y.S.RajanmentionstheGCIinrelationtonationalpower(Rajan2002:255).Healso
mentionstheTellisapproachinrelationtocompetitivecommercialtechnologies(Rajan2002:
252253). While competitiveness is not directly part of the NSI, it can be noted that technol
ogyhasreceivedarelativelyhighweightingat1520percent.
AsforthenameoftheNSIitself,theNSIdoesnotdirectlymeasurenationalsecurity.It
does so only indirectly, as evidenced by the introduction of the original NSI, where it is
statedthatacountrysnationalsecurityissafeguardednotjustbyitsarmedforcesbutbyits
comprehensive national power (NSCS 2003: 349). The difference between national power
andsecurityisthatthenotionofnationalpowertendstotakeashorttermviewofinterna
tionalrelationswhilenationalsecurityprovidesalongtermperspectiveoninternationalre
lations,psychologicallyspeaking.
6 FromNationalSecuritytoHumanSecurity
Interstate military conflicts have decreased relative to domestic conflicts and violence. This
tendencyhaschangedthefocusofsecuritythinking.Nationalsecurityhastraditionallybeen
concernedwithterritorialintegrityandarmsraces,butgiventhattheinternationalenviron
mentisrelativelystableandthatinternationaltreatiesnolongerguaranteedomesticpeace,a
closerlookatconflictsisrequiredinordertolinkdomesticstabilityandsecuritywithhuman
development.Accordingly,individualsratherthanstatesmovetothecenterofattention,for
individualsaretheprimaryconsumersofinsecurityintermsofciviliandeathsand,equally,
they are the primary perpetrators in terms of insurgencies and socioeconomic motion. The
conceptofhumansecuritypromotesaholisticconvergenceofwarstudieswithdevelopment
studies.
The UNDPs Human Development Report 1994 actively promotes human security as its
central theme. It provides an explicit definition of human security by focusing on two key
aspects:Itmeans, first, safety from such chronic threatsashunger, disease and repression.
And second, it means protection from sudden and hurtful disruptions in the patterns of
dailylifewhetherinhomes,injobsorincommunities(UNDP1994:23).Humansecurity
consistsof(1)economicsecurity,(2)foodsecurity,(3)healthsecurity,(4)environmentalsecu
rity,(5)personalsecurity,(6)communitysecurity,and(7)politicalsecurity(UNDP1994:24
25).Criticshavearguedthathumansecuritymayaltogetherbeamanipulativeattemptto
capturesomeofthemoresubstantialpoliticalinterestandsuperiorfinancialresourcesasso
ciatedwithmoretraditional,militaryconceptionsofsecurity(Paris2001:95).
The problem with concepts of human security is that they tend to be too broad and
fuzzy,makingithardtodiscernadifferencebetweenhumandevelopmentandhumansecu
rity(seeTrachsler2003:7576).SanjayaBarustatesthattheUNDPsHumanDevelopmentRe
port tries to capture trends in human security through measurement of human develop
ment(Baru2005:112).Moreover,itcanbearguedthathumansecurityrunscountertona
tionalsecurity,sothathumansecuritycanbeconstruedasaninvitationtohumanitarianin
tervention that disregards and undermines state sovereignty (see Trachsler 2003: 70, 7778,
8586,102).
Effortshavebeenmadetoquantifyhumansecurity(Trachsler2003:7981),oneofthem
being the Index of Human Insecurity (IHI) from 2000 (see Bandura 2008: 5455). One of the
sixteen variables of the IHI is public expenditures on defense versus education, which is
reminiscentofthevariablethatmeasuresmilitaryspendinginrelationtohealthspending
in the Global Militarization Index (GMI) by the Bonn International Center for Conversion
(BICC).Itisunclearhowsuchvariables,whichbringmilitaryspendinginoppositiontoso
cialspending,couldeverconvincemoreconservativelymindedscholars.Humansecurityis
theproductoftheUNDPmilieu;however,devoidofanypoliticalagenda,aholisticandin
tegrated approach to security is also compatible with more conservative views (compare
Paris2001:97).
Apurba Kundu considers human security to be the basis of the original NSI, and he
implicitlycommendstheNSIforthis(Kundu2004b).Kundudisplayssomenavetwhenhe
asks Whatdo highly expensive military modernisation items do for the humansecurity of
theindividualcitizen?(Kundu2004b:7)becauseinademocracyhumansecurityshouldbe
moretheconcernofthepoliceandnotaquestionofdirectmilitaryprowess,asthequestion
implies.Still,Indiaisapoorcountrywherecapitalisscarce,sosynergyeffectsaredesirable
inordertooptimizetheuseofresourcesandcapabilities.Thismaysuggestthatexpenditures
onnationalsecurityenhancehumansecurity,atleastwithregardtoinsurgenciessuchasthe
MaoistNaxaliteinsurrectionandtheconflictoverKashmir.
7 TheHumanDevelopmentIndexandtheEnvironmentalVulnerabilityIndex
The first two NSI publications contained the Human Development Index (HDI), which was
perhaps the most prominent feature of the NSI. The HDI was developed by Pakistani
economistMahbubulHaq(19341998).PriortoitsdevelopmentHaqhadexplainedtofellow
Indian economist Amartya Sen, we need a measure of the same level of vulgarity as the
GNPjust one numberbut a measure that is not as blind to social aspect (sic) of human
lives as the GNP is (Sen 1998). This vulgar measure happened to be the HDI, which was
published with the first Human Development Report 1990 and has been published annually
ever since. The HDI basically tends to inflate the development level of poor countries com
pared to GDP, whether at the official exchange rate (OER) or in terms of purchasing power
parity(PPP).SenexplainsthatHaqwasanoptimistopposedtothepessimismthattheexclu
siverelianceonGDPgenerates.
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TheNSIhasadoptedthebasicmethodologyoftheHDI,butwithoutusingaunifiedstandard(seeSection8)
fortreatingvalueseitherasaggregatesorpercapitavaluesorotherwise.TheHDIseekstorepresentpercap
itadevelopment,andtheNSIseekstorepresenttheaggregatepowerofnations,butinusingtheHDImeth
ThethirdNSIincludedtheEnvironmentalVulnerabilityIndex(EVI).TheEVIwasini
tiallydevelopedbytheSouthPacificAppliedGeoscienceCommission(SOPAC)forsmallis
landdevelopingstatesin1999,andwasthenexpandedtoallstatesin2004and2005.TheEVI
consistsof50indicatorsgroupedinto(1)hazards,(2)resistance,and(3)damage.Allindica
torshaveascaleof1to7tomakethemdirectlycomparable.Thecutoffvaluesforeachindi
catoronthisscalearearbitrary,buttheyrepresentthebestestimatepossiblegiventhecom
plexityofmatter(Prattetal.2004:14).Acompositescoreiscalculatedfromthese50indica
tors.TheEVIhasanumberofproblematicindicatorsthatconstructanirreconcilableopposi
tion between human development and environmental sustainability. For example, one indi
cator (use of electricity for industry over the last 5 years per square kilometre of land)
negativelyevaluateseconomicactivityperse;itdoesnottakeintoaccountthetypeofindus
try,thesourceofelectricity,ortheenvironmentalstandardsinplacetolimitandcompensate
fordamagetotheenvironment.Thismeansthataprimitivelifestylealwaysscoresbetterre
gardless of the actual damage caused.Another issue is those indicators that are a fixed fea
tureoftheenvironmentandindependentofhumanaction(numberofvolcanoes);practi
cally,theymayrendertheindexstatic.
8 TheLackofaUnifiedStandardintheCalculationoftheNSI
ThechangingcompositionoftheNSIinvariousyearsisdocumentedinAppendixA,there
sults inAppendix B. The most important observation from a technical point of view is that
theNSIsdifferentsubindexeshaverandomsharesofaggregateandpercapitavariables,as
wellasofattributablevariablesthatareneither.Aggregatevaluesmeasurethesumtotalofa
variable in a given country, for example, the total number of patents.
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Per capita values
odology without adjustment, the result is a technical disaster that produces questionable end results. In any
casetheHDIisnotwithoutflawseither,andforthisreasonitisusefultotakeacriticallookattheHDIitself.
The HDI consists of three subindexes: (1) life expectancy, (2) education comprising adult literacy and gross
enrollment, and (3) GDPPPP. While the areas of these subindexes seem optimal for its purpose, the HDIs
methodofcalculationiscarelessandinconsistent.Forlifeexpectancy85isarbitrarilytakenastheupperlimit
and25asthelowerlimit,insteadoftherealmaximumandminimumvalues.TheCIAFactbookexplainsmost
eloquentlythatroundingofnumbersalwaysresultsinalossofprecisioni.e.,error(CIA2009:FAQ).For
literacy and gross enrollment no minimum value is used in the calculation. For gross enrollment and GDP
PPP a completely arbitrary upper limit is applied, beyond which no differences will be registered; for GDP
PPPanequallyarbitrarylowerlimitisapplied.Giventhatadultliteracyhasreachedsaturationindeveloped
countries, the measure is worthless in comparing such countries. The logarithm is used only for GDPPPP,
though it would make more sense to apply it all subindexes, so that relationships are preserved in the com
positeindexscale.Instead,thenumericalvalueoftheHDIismoreorlessdevoidofmeaningfulinformation;
the only usefulness is in determining rank. India is ranked 128 out of 177 countries measured (UNDP
2007:128).
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Complicationsarisewhentheseaggregateshappentomeasuresomethingnegativelikeenergyimports(i.e.,
themoreenergyimported,theweakerthecountry).Thoughtheyarestillaggregates,theproblemingeneral
divide these aggregate values by the population to determine the average individual level,
for example, researchers per million. A third group of attributable variables consists of
values that by themselves are neither aggregate nor per capita, for example, high technol
ogyexportsaspercentageofmanufacturedexports.Nosystemfortheuseofvariablescan
bediscernedbeyondtheinertiaofinitialavailability,whichmeansthatifthedesignersofthe
NSIfindanaggregatevariable,theyuseitdirectlywithoutdiscriminationoradjustmenttoa
unified standard. The same way that if they find per capita variables or attributable vari
ables,theyusethesevaluesdirectlywithoutdiscriminationoradjustmenttoaunifiedstan
dard. The proper way of constructing an index would be to decide on a uniform standard
thatdetermineswhetherallvariablesaretobeconvertedintoaggregatesorpercapitavalues
andtostickwithit.Onlythenwoulditmakesensetocombinethosevalues.
Table3:DifferentFunctionsofNSIVariables
Function 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Aggregate 56.00% 52.00% 55.00% 57.25% 60.25%
Percapita 28.00% 28.00% 26.00% 14.50% 15.25%
Neither 16.00% 20.00% 19.00% 28.25% 24.50%
Source: Authorsowncalculation,seeAppendixAfordetailedindexes.
The NSI is thus an incoherent hybrid which calculates results of dubious value;
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the NSI
values are neither aggregate values indicating the total power of India compared to other
countries,noraretheypercapitavaluesenablingtheindirectmeasurementofthelevelofse
curityfortheaverageIndiancomparedtotheaveragecitizensofothercountries.TheNSIis
in dire need of a unified standard for handling aggregates and per capita values, and the
most straightforward solution would be to transform all values into positive aggregates as
farpossible.ThecombinedNSIvaluewouldthenindicatenationalpowerasasumtotal,al
lowingthesimplecomparisonofnationalvalues.
Thecriticismcanbemadethatongoingchangesincompositionandweightingprohibit
yeartoyear comparisons. While this is true to some extent, it is exactly these ongoing
changesthatmarktheNSIasacreativeandwellrunexperiment,despiteallthemisgivings.
Anydemandfortemporaluniformitywouldkillthiscreativity,astheNSIwouldnolonger
be free to use all available variables, including many of recent origin, to sustain continuous
qualityimprovement.
Fourminorissuesremain:(1)TomultiplytheHDIbythepopulationleadstoimpreci
sion because HDI values are in theory stretched between maximum and minimum and not
isthatthemorenegativeaggregatesareused,themorelikelythelinearcalculationscouldresultinnegative
sum totals, so that a country would have a negative value as total power, which is illogical. Because of this,
suchnegativeaggregatesarecountedasNeitherinTable3.
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The incongruous method of randomly adding up aggregate and per capita values creates a bias favoring
smallbuthighlydevelopedcountries(Scandinavia).
precise values with fixed ratios; the NSI no longer uses the HDI. (2) Economic growth as a
component of the NSI does not represent current abilities but rather future expectations on
thebasisofpastperformance;furtherrapideconomicgrowthalsomeansthattheinfrastruc
tureisincreasinglydeficientrelativetoeconomicactivity,soeconomicgrowthmayconferan
inflated picture of economic conditions in the short run. (3) Population by itself can be a
strengthaswellasweakness(NSCS2003:351).Theadditionofpopulationaged1564to
the NSI 2007 contradicts this earlier realization by taking demography solely as a strength
without adjustment for qualitative factors such as health and education that could demon
stratepopulationtobeaweakness;demographyalonedoesnothingbutboostIndiasrank.
15
It can be assumed that population is already included in most aggregate values (compare
Mearsheimer 2001: 61). (4) The NSI 2004 included Hong Kong, which is obviously a subna
tionalarea.
Thenumberofvariablesintechnologywasincreasedfrom3intheNSI2002to5inthe
NSI2007,thoughtheweightingoftechnologywasdecreasedfrom20percentto15percent.
Theinclusionofnumbersonmainbattletanks,aircraft,andprincipalsurfacecombatants
16
to
indicate defense capability seems too simple because it does not account for quality differ
ences;however,nobettermeasureisreadilyavailable.
17
Giventhatthetotalnumberofvari
ablesintheNSIincreasedfrom8intheNSI2002to17intheNSI2007,parsimonyseemsad
visable.
15
TheNSIdesignersputsome effortintomeasuringwhattheycalleffectivepopulation(thepopulationin
dexintheNSI2002and2003)bychangingthecomponentsofthissubindexthreetimes(seeAppendixA),a
fact which also indicates that they havent yet found a satisfactory measure. The obvious goal is to measure
the population without omitting the quality dimension of this population, such as pertaining to health and
educationforexample.Somewhatsimilarinnatureandintent,theCIAFactbookhasalsocalculatedavariable
called manpower fit for military service: This entry gives the number of males and females falling in the
military age range for a country (defined as being ages 1649) and who are not otherwise disqualified for
health reasons; accounts for the health situation in the country and provides a more realistic estimate of the
actual number fit to serve (CIA 2009: Definitions and Notes). Though the input and the formula of this
measure are not given in this definition, multiplying the population aged 16 to 49 by the square root of life
expectancyprovidesarelativelygoodproxy.
16
Principal Surface Combatants (PSC) are not counted in a consistent manner in The Military Balance; that is,
sometimescorvettesareincludedinthenumberandsometimesnot.AnalternativetocountingPSCistolook
attonnage(seeMartello1990:1617,6768).
17
In1976thePentagondevelopedtheconceptofArmoredDivisionEquivalent(ADE),whichcombinedmany
factors to measure conventional force. By 1988 this had been refined into Division Equivalent Firepower
(DEF)(seealsoMartello1990:36);theinformationavailableontheInternetaboutthesemeasuresislimited.
9 TheTrendintheCompositionoftheNSITowardstheAbandonmentofHuman
Security
As can be seen from Table 4, the first three publications of the NSI had a relatively strong
humansecurityelement.ThisismostevidentintheNSI2004.Thenabreakoccurredin2005,
whentheNSIwasntpublished,andnowtheelementishardlyvisible.
Table4:DecomposedNSIAccordingtoNationalSecurityandHumanSecurity
ThematicSectors 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
NationalSecurity 73.33% 73.33% 65.00% 85.00% 97.00%
Economy 33.33% 33.33% 25.00% 25.00% 28.00%
Military 20.00% 20.00% 25.00% 25.00% 25.00%
Technology 20.00% 20.00% 15.00% 15.00% 15.00%
Energy 20.00% 20.00%
Demography 9.00%
HumanSecurity 26.67% 26.67% 35.00% 15.00% 3.00%
Education 13.33% 13.33% 7.50% 7.50% 3.00%
Health 13.33% 13.33% 10.00%
Poverty 7.50% 7.50%
Ecology 10.00%
Source: Authorsowncalculation,seeAppendixAfordetailedindexes.
ThistransitioncanbefurtherdocumentedbylookingattheresultsoftheNSI,asshownby
thefollowingPearsoncorrelationcoefficientsfortheresultsofsuccessivepublicationsofthe
index:
NSI2002&NSI2003: 0.97
NSI2003&NSI2004: 0.91
NSI2004&NSI2006: 0.88
NSI2006&NSI2007: 0.99
Itsdiscouragingthatthelatestcorrelationcoefficientisalsothehighest,whichcouldsuggest
that the NSI has settled somewhat and that less variation in its composition might thus be
expectedinfuturerevisions.
Kumarpointsoutthattheselongterm[nontraditionalsecurity]issues[]cannotbe
mixedwithindicesofinstantlyusablepower(Kumar2007:446),providingonehintofjusti
fication for this drastic measure of excluding human security. The justification itself is of a
practicalnature,asanyadvancesinthenationalsecuritysectorstendtodirectlyincreasethe
power of government, a better economy immediately contributes higher tax revenues, mili
taryassetsaredirectlyavailableinaconflict,etc.Anyadvancesinhumansecuritytendtodo
soonlyindirectly:educationprovidesabasisfortechnology,decreasedpovertymaysupport
political stability, etc. Another reason for excluding human security is that sometimes no
change seems to take place in the status of a country on issues like health, education, envi
ronment, etc. for years. These three issues have thus been put in a separate index in the
INSAR 2006 because they may not need to be reproduced every year. Still, Kumar is aware
that India has to do a lot to move up the ladder with regard to its international ranking on
theseissues.
TheINSARhasregularlyincludedoneortwoarticlesonhumansecurityissues.Satish
Kumar himself has stated that military capability is still the most important component of
nationalpower(Kumar2002:20).Theprogressiveforce behindtheoriginalNSIwasproba
bly Satish Chandra, the secretary of the NSCS from 1999 to 2005. He vehemently pushed a
holisticlineinaretrospectiveessayontheNSCS,goingsofarastoimplythataholisticun
derstanding of security was what necessitated the NSC and NSCS to come into being
(Chandra2006:201202,205208).SatishChandraseemstohavehadthesupportofhissupe
riors Brajesh Chandra Mishra, who served as NSA from 1998 to 2004, and Jyotindra Nath
Dixit,whoservedasNSAfrom2004to2005(diedinoffice).
The NSIs two most recent publications now make it fall into the category of Chinese
CNPindexesasithasbroadenedtheconceptofnationalpowerbuthasntfirmlycommitted
itselftoaparadigmshifttowardshumansecurity.
10ReceptionandCritiquesoftheNSI
PranabKumarMukherjee,theministerofdefensefrom2004to2006,commentedwithpride
ontheNSIinoneofhisspeeches:
[The]compilationoftheNationalSecurityIndex(NSI)bytheNationalSecurityCoun
cilin2002hasbeenthefirstsystematiceffortinIndiatowardsevolvinganindigenous
databasetocalculatecomprehensivenationalpower.Indiaisranked10thamong30na
tions in terms of its NSI and it is pertinent that in relation to other indicators, theDe
fenceexpenditureisamongthelowestinrelativeterms.Thegreateremphasisonnon
military dimensions of national security in [the] case of India dispels the impression
emanating from a few quarters that Indias military capabilities may be motivated by
the quest for power status. (Mukherjee 2004; see also Singh 2005; compare Mukher
jee2006)
The NSI gained the attention of the Indian and Chinese media in 2003/04. The Financial Ex
pressranastringofarticlesonit(seeTheFinancialExpress2003a,2003b,2003c,2004;seealso
The Hindu 2004), and the 2004 piece was noticed by Chinas Peoples Daily, which subse
quently echoed it in a string of articles there (see Peoples Daily Online 2004a, 2004b, 2004c).
One of these articles was in turn picked up by an Indian journalist (Shahin 2004). The Chi
neseweresatisfiedwithChinabeingrankedsecondbyitsneighboringcompetitorandstated
thatIndiasNSIisavariantoftheChineseComprehensiveNationalPower(CNP)indexand
anAmericanindexconstructedattheRandCorporation(TheFinancialExpress2004;Peoples
DailyOnline2004c).
TheintroductiontotheoriginalNSIstatedthatitdidhavesomelimitations,sothatit
didnottakeintoaccountresourceabundance,environmentalhealthandgoodgovernance
(NSCS2003:351).Resourceabundancewaslaterpartiallytakencareofthroughtheintroduc
tionofenergysecurityintheindexin2006and2007.Environmentalhealthwasaddressedin
the NSI 2004 but dropped afterwards. For good governance, the World Governance Indica
tors (WGI) by the World Bank might be perfect for use in future revisions of the NSI (see
World Bank 2009). Meetu Jain has criticized the NSI 2006 as the index ignores non
conventional threats like health, environment and HRD [Human Resource Development]
(Jain2007),whichwereincludedinthepreviouspublicationsoftheNSIandthendropped.
Jainfurthercriticizesthefactthatapowerfularmyandrobusteconomydonotcompensate
fordeficientsecurityduetoterroristsandinsurgents.HefindssupportforhisviewinSatish
Chandra,whohasstatedLookatpolicing,itsamixedexperience.Youcannotreallycallit
numberfour(Chandra,quotedinJain2007;compareAyar2006).
Table5:TopTenCountriesAccordingtotheNSI,20022007
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
UnitedStates UnitedStates UnitedStates UnitedStates UnitedStates
Japan China China China China
China Japan Japan Norway Norway
SouthKorea SouthKorea Sweden India Russia
Germany Sweden Finland Japan India
France Russia Russia Russia Japan
Russia Germany Canada SaudiArabia SouthKorea
UnitedKingdom India SouthKorea UnitedKingdom UnitedKingdom
Israel France India Germany Germany
India UnitedKingdom Germany SouthKorea France
Source: NSCS2003,Kumar2004b,2005,2007,2008.
RetiredlieutenantgeneralV.R.RaghavanisconsideredoneofIndiasleadingstrategicthink
ers; his criticism of the NSI 2007 as a feature of the INSAR 2007 is that the rankings in the
book seem to bear no relation to the real security status of these states (Raghavan 2008).
Raghavan seems to object to India being ranked above the United Kingdom, Germany, and
France. He also seems to object to Sweden being ranked above Brazil and Pakistan. More
over, Raghavan states that these rankings do not also help in formulating security policy
andplansforthefuture.Itishopedthatamorerealisticsecurityrankingofstatescanbepre
sentedinthenextvolumeoftheseries(Raghavan2008).TheINSAR2008didnotincludean
NSI.Withabitofluckmajorrevisions,especiallytowardsaunifiedstandardforthecalcula
tion method, are underway; this technicality appears to be themajor reasonthat some NSI
valuesareinadequate.
11Conclusion
HumansecuritywasthetrademarkoftheNSIfrom2002to2004;itiswhatdistinguishedit
from all previous power indexes. However, human security is not uncontroversial. Skepti
cismisabundantastowhetherhumansecurityisreallyafeasiblesecurityconceptorjustan
attempttoimposeadevelopmentagendaonsecurityissues.Thisunderlyingambiguitymay
havealsoplayedaroleinthewithdrawalofhumansecurityfromtheNSIin2006and2007.
Kumar Satish and the INSAR are principally open to nontraditional security approaches.
At the same time their main commitment remains with traditional security. If the five ver
sionsoftheNSIpublishedsofarproveanything,itisthatthedesignersareneitherdogmatic
norstaticintheirthinking.TheNSIhasbeenrevisedeachtime,andnoversionhasbeenlike
thepreviousoneintermsofthevariablesandweights.Thismeansthatevenifhumansecu
rityhasbeenabandonedforthemoment,itmayfinditswaybackintofutureeditions.
ThebigproblemoftheNSIisthattheresultsarenotveryconvincing.Itisobviousthat
perceptionsdiffervastlyonwhatrankanemergingcountrylikeIndiashouldhave,butitis
clear that ranking Norway as the thirdmostpowerful country in the world is implausible.
Norwayiscertainlyaveryrichcountryduetoitsoffshoreoilandthehighlevelofsocialin
frastructure typical of Scandinavian countries, which makes it outstanding on a per capita
scale, but it is still a country with less than five million people. The NSI mixes aggregate
variables, per capita variables, and other attributable variables together in the most careless
manner,sothatsuchresultsnotonlybecomepossiblebutlikely.Ifsomethingcanbelearned
fromtheNSI,itisthataunifiedstandardisasinequanonforapowerindex.Theeasiestsolu
tion would be to transform all variables into positive aggregates before adding them up ac
cordingtotheirweights.HopefullythiswillhappeninthenextNSI.
Furtherresearchshouldbedevotedtoidentifyingotherpowerindexesthatmayhave
beenconstructedinIndiabeforethearrivaloftheInternet.WhiletheNSIisthemajorpower
index produced in the country, it is essentially an Indian adaptation of the SinoJapanese
CNP concept, so trilateral comparisons seem opportune.An intriguing cultural research is
suealongtheselinescouldbewhetheranAsianmodeofthoughtisseekingandfindingex
pression in these power formulas. Any early conclusions on this topic are dangerous as
powerformulasaretoofewtoprovesuchhypothesesstatistically;however,thelimitedsetof
availableformulasencouragesspeculation.
APPENDIXA:NSIComponentsfor2002,2003,2004,2006and2007
TableA1:NSI2002for30countries
A 20.00% HumanDevelopmentIndex(HDI)
1 20.00% HumanDevelopmentIndex(HDI)2000
B 20.00% ResearchandDevelopmentIndex(RDI)
2 4.00% Patentsgrantedtoresidentspermillion1998
3 12.00% Researchanddevelopmentexpenditureas%ofGNP,19992000
4 4.00% ScientistsandengineersinR&Dpermillion,19902000
C 20.00% GDPPerformanceIndex(GDPPI)
5 16.00% GDPatofficialexchangerate,2000
6 4.00% GDPgrowthinpercent,2000
D 20.00% DefenseExpenditureIndex(DEI)
7 20.00% Defenseexpenditureatofficialexchangerate,2000
E 20.00% PopulationIndex(PI)
18
8 20.00% PopulationxHumanDevelopmentIndex(HDI),2000
Source: NSCS2003.
SubindexesareidentifiedbycapitallettersAE,componentsarenumbered18;theirrespec
tive weighting is given in the second column. Information for these indexes came from the
HumanDevelopmentReport2002(1,2,3,4,8)andtheMilitaryBalance20012002(5,6,7).This
istheoriginalNSIbytheNSCS.For1,valuesaretakendirectlyfromHDR2002.For2to7,
valuesarenormalizedusingthemaximumvalue,whichisthemethodusedbytheHDIfor
theeducationsubindex:
actualvalue/maximumvalue=indexvalue
For 8, values are normalized using the maximum value and the minimum value, which is
akintothemethodusedbytheHDIforthelifeexpectancysubindex:
(actualvalueminimumvalue)/(maximumvalueminimumvalue)
=indexvalue
18
George Perkovich mentioned the Population Index (PI) in a lecture, but he incorrectly stated that the PI
rankedIndiatwentyseventhofthe29countriesincluded(Perkovich2003:9).InfactthisistheHDIranking
by itself, without being multiplied by population.In an article based on hislecture, he corrected his mistake
andstatedcorrectlythatIndiaisrankedsecondoutof29countries(Perkovich2004:131).Ascanbeseenfrom
thetable,thePIwasonlyonesubindexamongthefiveequallyweightedsubindexes;Perkovichdidntmen
tiontheotherfoursubindexesnortheNSIitself.
TableA2:NSI2003for50CountriesSelectedontheBasisofDefenseExpenditures
A 20.00% DefenseIndex(DI)
2 10.00% Armedforcespersonnel
B 20.00% GDPIndex(GDPI)
4 8.00% GDPgrowthin%,20002001
C 20.00% HumanDevelopmentIndex(HDI)
5 20.00% HumanDevelopmentIndex(HDI)2000
D 20.00% ResearchandDevelopmentIndex(RDI)
6 12.00% Researchanddevelopmentexpenditureas%ofGNP,19992000
7 4.00% Patentsgrantedtoresidentspermillion,1998
E 20.00% PopulationIndex(PI)
9 20.00% Population2001xHumanDevelopmentIndex(HDI)2000
Source: Kumar2004b.
The only change in the NSI 2003 as compared to the NSI 2002 was the addition of armed
forcespersonnel(2)fortheDefenseIndex(A),whichwascalledtheDefenseExpenditureIn
dexinthepreviousindex.InformationfortheseindexescamefromtheMilitaryBalance2002
2003(1,2,3,4),theHumanDevelopmentReport2002(5,6,7,8,9:HDI),andtheWorldDevel
opmentReport2003(9:population).For5,valuesaretakendirectlyfromHDR2002.For6to8,
valuesarenormalizedusingthemaximumvalue.For1to4and9,valuesarenormalizedus
ing the maximum value and the minimum value. Furthermore, an alternative NSI without
thePopulationIndex(E)isoffered,whichmayindicatethattheinclusionofitwasuptothe
NSIsdesigners,whowereunsurewhethertoincludethissubindexintheNSI.
TableA3:NSI2004for50CountriesSelectedontheBasisofNationalIncome
A 25.00% NationalIncome
1 15.00% GNIatofficialexchangerate,2002
2 10.00% GNIgrowthratein%,20012002
B 25.00% DefenseCapability
3 12.50% Defenseexpenditureatofficialexchangerate
4 12.50% Sizeofarmyintermsofpersonnel
C 15.00% EffectivePopulation
5 15.00% Populationxadultliteracy2001xpercentageofpopulationabovepovertyline
D 15.00% TechnologicalStrength
6 3.00% Patentsgrantedtoresidentspermillion,1999
7 9.00% Researchanddevelopmentexpenditureas%ofGDP,19962000
E 10.00% NationalHealth
9 3.33% Lifeexpectancyatbirth,2001
10 3.33% Incidenceoftuberculosisper100,000citizens,2000
11 3.33% PrevalenceofHIVaspercentageofadults
F 10.00% EnvironmentalVulnerability
12 10.00% EnvironmentalVulnerabilityIndex(EVI)
Source: Kumar2005.
The most notable change for the NSI 2004 was the addition of the EVI, which had recently
been created by SOPAC. Another change was that the HDI was dropped and replaced by
similar measures in effective population (C) and national health (E). Information for these
indexescamefromtheWorldDevelopmentReport2003and2004(1,2,5,9,10,11),theMilitary
Balance20022003(3,4),theHumanDevelopmentReport2003(6,7,8),andtheTechnicalReport
No.356(12)bySOPAC.For6to8,valuesarenormalizedusingthemaximumvalue.For1to
5and9to12,valuesarenormalizedusingthemaximumvalueandtheminimumvalue.
NoNSIwascalculatedfor2005.
TableA4:NSI2006for50CountriesSelectedontheBasisofGDPatOfficialExchange
Rate
A 25.00% GrossDomesticProduct
2 10.00% GDPgrowthratein%
4 12.50% Armedforcespersonnel,2003
C 20.00% EnergySecurity
5 10.00% Percapitaenergyproductioninkilotonoilequivalent,2002
6 10.00% Energyimportsinkilotonoilequivalent,2002
7 6.00% Researchanddevelopmentexpenditureas%ofGDP2002
8 4.50% Researcherspermillion
9 2.25% Hightechnologyexportsaspercentageofmanufacturedexports,2003
10 2.25% Totalnumberofpatents
E 15.00% EffectivePopulation
11 15.00% Populationxadultliteracy19982002xpercentageofpopulationabovepovertyline
Source: Kumar2007.
Themostnotablechangewastheadditionofenergysecurity(C).Furthernationalhealthand
environmental vulnerability indicators were dropped altogether. Information for these in
dexescamefromtheWorldDevelopmentIndicators2004and2005(1,2,5,6,7,8,9,10,11)and
theMilitaryBalance20032005(3,4).For5and7to8,valuesarenormalizedusingthemaxi
mumvalue.For1to4,6,and9to11,valuesarenormalizedusingthemaximumvalueand
the minimum value. Further supplemental indexes on health, education and environmental
securitywereoffered,butthoseindexesnolongerconstitutedapartoftheNSI.
TableA5:NSI2007for50CountriesSelectedontheBasisofGDPatOfficialExchange
Rate
A 25.00% EconomicStrength
2 6.25% AverageannualGDPgrowthratein%,20002005
3 10.00% Armedforcespersonnel
4 7.50% Defenseexpenditureatofficialexchangerate
5 2.50% Mainbattletanks
6 2.50% Aircraft
7 2.50% Principalsurfacecombatants
C 20.00% EnergySecurity
8 10.00% Percapitaenergyproductioninmetrictonsofoilequivalent,2004
9 10.00% Netenergyimportsinmillions,$2004
10 2.25% Hightechnologyexportsaspercentageofmanufacturedexports,2004
11 2.25% Totalnumberofpatents,20002004
12 6.00% Researchanddevelopmentexpenditureas%ofGDP
13 2.25% Researcherspermillion
14 2.25% Scientificandtechnicaljournalarticles,2004
E 15.00% EffectivePopulation
15 9.00% Populationaged1564,2004
16 3.00% Populationeducateduptopostsecondarylevel,2000
17 3.00% PercapitaGDPatofficialexchangerate,2005
Source: Kumar2008.
Themostnotablechangewastheadditionofpopulationaged1564alongsideothervari
ablestoeffectivepopulation(E).Thisvariableispurelydemographicandhasnothingtodo
with human development, the previously synthetic variable for effective population having
beendropped.Furtherchangesweretheadditionofmorevariablesfordefensecapability(B)
and technological strength (D). Information for these indexes came from the World Develop
mentIndicators2007(1,2,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17)andtheMilitaryBalance20062007
(3,4,5,6,7).For5to8and11to14,valuesarenormalizedusingthemaximumvalue.For1
to4,9to10and15to17,valuesarenormalizedusingthemaximumvalueandtheminimum
value.
NoNSIwascalculatedfor2008.
APPENDIXB:CompleteListofResultsfromtheNSI,20022007
TableB1:CompositeIndexValuesfromtheNSI,20022007
Country 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
UnitedStates 0.726 0.687 68.51 56.50 57.5
China 0.411 0.551 52.93 45.90 42.5
Japan 0.480 0.481 40.61 26.67 24.1
Russia 0.330 0.386 35.40 26.60 24.8
Norway 0.321 32.87 31.36 29.1
India 0.296 0.384 34.73 27.05 24.6
SouthKorea 0.363 0.404 34.92 19.29 17.4
Germany 0.358 0.384 34.40 19.50 16.7
France 0.346 0.376 32.55 18.18 15.6
UnitedKingdom 0.329 0.358 30.67 19.89 17.2
Sweden 0.400 36.33 17.80 14.1
Australia 0.294 0.334 33.14 18.42 15.0
Belarus 0.255
Israel 0.328 0.352 29.89 15.02 11.9
Canada 0.320 35.13 17.56 14.9
Vietnam 0.230
Switzerland 0.344 33.36 13.28 10.6
Finland 0.233 35.91 17.93 13.2
UnitedArabEmirates 0.225
Denmark 0.314 27.43 16.03 13.0
Oman 0.219
SaudiArabia 0.201 0.216 27.79 24.44 14.8
Italy 0.275 0.307 25.34 13.00 9.9
Hong Kong 20.68
Ukraine 0.306 10.7
Netherlands 0.324 25.87 13.07 10.2
Kazakhstan 0.202
Uzbekistan 0.179 0.223
Brazil 0.240 0.267 26.81 12.58 9.4
Kuwait 0.184 0.213
Morocco 0.198
Spain 0.291 25.59 13.25 10.2
Belgium 0.304 25.94 12.42 8.8
Iran 0.198 0.257 23.83 15.46 11.5
Austria 0.297 25.87 12.16 8.9
Greece 0.222 0.266 24.99 12.01 8.2
Turkey 0.210 0.202 25.96 14.97 10.8
Egypt 0.213 0.272 24.10 11.77 7.9
Mexico 0.238 27.24 12.50 8.7
Singapore 0.255 21.34 13.55 11.7
Algeria 0.157 0.200 24.86 16.55 12.0
Poland 0.258 25.40 12.20 7.2
Malaysia 0.199 0.214 21.92 13.99 9.7
NewZealand 29.58 12.37 8.4
Thailand 0.222 22.35 13.45 8.4
Indonesia 0.191 22.27 14.47 10.0
Ireland 27.07 11.89 10.0
Country 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Colombia 0.203 23.57 12.88 8.1
Argentina 0.205 0.217 18.72 13.95 6.1
Chile 0.242 25.51 8.90 4.4
Peru 22.27 9.04
Portugal 0.253 23.56 8.67 4.7
CzechRepublic 26.90 12.03 7.6
Pakistan 0.138 0.193 20.78 13.13 9.0
Venezuela 0.220 21.40 7.55 7.8
SouthAfrica 0.185 0.221 11.47 10.54 7.1
Hungary 23.91 10.95 6.8
Philippines 0.188 16.09 12.11 7.5
Angola 0.136
Bangladesh 17.18 9.89
Nigeria 0.121 8.1
Romania 11.29 7.3
Iraq 0.017
Source: NSCS2003;Kumar2004b,2005,2007,2008.
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