<P>Stephen Philip Cohen can rightly be called the doyen of South Asian security analysis, especially traditional security concerns in the region and advocacy on US foreign policy.</P>
<P>The contributors to the volume have all, at different at different points in time, been Cohen's students, and are now well-known scholars in their own right. Broadly dividing Cohen's work into categories, the contributors deal with the following issues:</P>
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<LI>how security is understood and how important strategic relationships are framed</LI>
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<LI>approaches to and choices made in the areas of military structure, arms production, and investment in science and technology</LI>
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<LI>how and why civil society groups are mobilized towards political ends-specifically looking at ethnic mobilization in diaspora communities, non-official initiatives for peace in South Asia, and the role of state and non-state actors in disaster management</LI>
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<LI>the role of the army.</LI></UL>
<P>The essays reflect a view of security as something people choose to make for themselves through an exercise of agency that is rooted in the realm of ideas.</P>