Dr. Shishir Upadhyaya

Associate Professor - College of Security and Global Studies

Publications : 12
Citations : 41
h-Index : 4
Last Updated : Dec/20/2024 04:50:15

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.

Publications

Journal

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?	1
Jan/02/2017	Expansion of Chinese maritime power in the Indian Ocean: implications for India	13
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

Publications

Book

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

Dr. Shishir Upadhyaya

Assistant Professor, College of Security and Global Studies

Commander Dr. Shishir Upadhyaya (Retd.) is a former Indian naval intelligence officer, his PhD is in International Relations and Security Studies from the University of Wollongong in Australia, with 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.

Dr. Shishir industry experience includes senior managerial positions at leading aerospace, defence and maritime consulting companies such as IHS Markit and Lloyds in Singapore.

Dr. 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.

His areas of interest broadly include international affairs and security, public international law focussed on laws of armed conflict and the law of the sea, and Indo-Pacific regional security. He has conducted undergraduate and postgraduate courses in IR, national security, international law and intelligence research.

Dr. Shishir latest book titled 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.