Bimal N. Patel, Ph.D. (Leiden University), is a professor of public international law and the Director-General of the Raksha Shakti University and a member of the National Security Advisory Board of India, he was a former director of the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. He has published and edited several books, research papers/articles/surveys in leading academic and international law journals.

"With its eminent strategic history and rising global influence, few countries will play a greater role than India in determining twenty-first-century world order. Professor Bimal Patel’s National Security of India and International Law is an illuminating examination of India's contemporary geopolitical discourse." - Dr. Henry Kissinger, Former US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser, 1973 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient"Change in international order is neither new nor stoppable… Any deviant behaviour of one State affects the other much more profoundly today than in the past…“National Security of India and International Law” … vividly brings out the complexities of the issues involved and possible way forward…a pioneering book which brings together seemingly different domains of study, but which, in the ultimate analysis, are very closely intertwined.. a thought provoking and valuable reference point for practitioners of national security, legal experts and policy makers." - Ajit Doval, National Security Adviser, Government of India"Professor Patel is in an ideal position to be bringing the field of national security law to India. He understands both the great importance of international law, and more broadly the rule-of law itself, for India and every nation. And he has the knowledge and the background to put together this pioneering work… a work likely to trigger rapid development of the field of national security law in India" - Professor John Norton Moore, Authority on National Security, Law and Law of the Sea and holder of Six US Presidential Appointments, Virginia Law School