Venugopal B. Menon is Professor of International studies at Christ University, Bangalore. He has more than 32 years of teaching and research experience in international relations. He has participated in many national and international conferences and has published a number of research papers on China, regionalism and securitization. Currently he teaches Research Methodology, Contemporary History and International Relations at Christ University. Joshy M. Paul is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Studies and History at Christ Unviersity, Bangalore. He has eight years of research experience on Asian security and maritime security affairs. He has written number articles in reputed academic journals. He has received fellowships from RSIS (Singapore), NIDS (Japan) and Salzburg Global Seminar(Austria). He teaches International Relations and foreign policies of major powers for graduates and masters students at Christ University