This volume is a must read for students and practitioners. Dr. Onkar Marwah, IAS and a Distinguished Fellow at IPCS , New Delhi Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal has done a commendable job in editing some excellent and thought provoking essays written by Professor Gautam Sen over the last five years. Given their inextricable linkage, domestic and foreign, national security, economic and socio-political policies cannot be effectively framed or executed in silos. Thus this compilation should be most useful to scholars and policy makers alike.