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| Title | Date | Author | Time | Event | Body | Research Area | Topics | File attachments | Image |
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| Talk by Dr. Shujaat Bukhari on "Politics and Security in Jammu and Kashmir" | October 15, 2012 | 1130 hrs | Other |
Venue: Room No. 005, IDSA Speaker: Dr. Shujaat Bukhari, Editor, Rising Kashmir, a prominent newspaper in Jammu and Kashmir Chair: Shri G.K. Pillai, former Home Secretary |
Terrorism & Internal Security | ||||
| Talk by H.E. Khaled El Bakly, Ambassador of Egypt to India, on "Developments in Egypt" | October 19, 2012 | 1530 hrs | Other |
Venue: Room No 005, IDSA |
Eurasia & West Asia | ||||
| Coping with China in the Asia-Pacific: India’s Calibrated Approach | November 02, 2012 | R N Das | 1030 to 1300 hrs | Fellows' Seminar |
Chairperson: Amb. R Rajagopalan |
East Asia | |||
| Talk by Joseph F. Pilat on “The Race between Technology Development and Containment of Proliferation Tendencies” | October 08, 2012 | 1500 hrs | Other |
Venue: Board Room (Room No. 104), IDSA Speaker's ProfileJoseph F. Pilat is a senior advisor in the National Security Office at Los Alamos National Laboratory, providing particular expertise in nuclear weapons, arms control, nonproliferation, counter-proliferation and counterterrorism. He is also a member of the Steering Committee at the University of California’s Institute on Conflict and Cooperation. He served as a special advisor to the Department of Energy representative at the 1986 Third Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and to the U.S. Delegation at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference. He also represented the Secretary of Defense at the Fourth NPT Review Conference in 1990 and at the Open Skies negotiations. He has been an assistant for nonproliferation policy in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy. In addition, he was a senior research associate in the Congressional Research Service and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He received his B.A. in Philosophy in 1973, M.A. in Government in 1975 and his Ph.D. in European and Russian History from Georgetown University in 1982. He edited the 2007 book, Atoms for Peace: A Future after Fifty years?, published by Woodrow Wilson Centre Press and John Hopkins University Press. |
North American | ||||
| Talk by Prof Paula Newberg on "Justice and Transitional Politics in Pakistan and Afghanistan" | October 05, 2012 | 1500 hrs | Other |
Venue: Room no 105, IDSA About the SpeakerProf. Paula Newberg, a specialist in democracy, rights and development in crisis and transition states She is the director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD), Walsh School of Foreign Service. She spent many years as special adviser to the United Nations and the United Nations Foundation, living and working in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Her numerous postings included Afghanistan during and after Taliban rule, and she continues to serve as an adviser and consultant to American and foreign-based nongovernmental organizations. Newberg also served as a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, co-founded its Democracy Project and led its South Asia Roundtable. She has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and taught in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She is also the author of "Judging the State" which focuses Pakistan judiciary's Role in Politics. |
South Asia | ||||
| The Afghan War Warrants A Paradigmatic Shift for State-Building | October 05, 2012 | Muska Dastageer | 1030 to 1300 hrs | Fellows' Seminar |
Chair: Dr. Ashok K. Behuria Major Highlights of the Paper: The Afghan state whose security and legitimacy is warred for and which is sought rebuilt has meagre institutional remnants indicating a direction and the case is thus more or less a tabula rasa. The counterinsurgency campaign is effectively a state- (re)building endeavour as well as a military undertaking. Ms. Muska Dastageer’s paper poses two crucial questions; first, ‘which overarching state construct is NATO, United States Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A) and Afghan National Security Force (ANSF) contributing to the building of?’ and second, ‘will the institutional remnants of corroded, yet still, extant systems of societal organisation coalesce favourably with this nascent state?’ She wants to examine whether ‘bringing security back in’ in the area of state-building-in the foundational Hobbesian sense-within conflict-beleaguered environments could mark an optimised understanding of what it takes to engineer a state that is home grown i.e. non-Westphalian. Ms. Dastageer identified two variables that fundamentally alter the state making equation. The first variable looks at state-as making of war and the second variable, the colonial tautology and Pakistan. Thus, she made an attempt to situate state-building in Afghanistan in both its temporal-spatial contingency and a regional realm. The presenter argued that organisations such as NATO and USFOR-A, their raison d’etre and conduct-underlying vision, are shaped by the theoretical discourse of the rationalist actor based, realist paradigm. The initial failures in Afghanistan –traversing the strategic-operation-tactical divides-can arguably be attributed to a slowness, an inertia, on the part of NATO to adjust to a different world. She sought to demonstrate the validity of the micro-macro nexus of an intrastate war with interstate tensions attributable to colonial legacies. She argued, state building as espoused by the Security Primacy Doctrine- an approach interlinking state-building with security setting and the security-setting corpus traversing institutional strategic-operational-tactical divides-warrants the avoidance of rigid template-following and calls for it to be commensurable with the temporal spatial contingencies. It calls for a continuously iterative modus operandi with the onus being on ANSF, the concrete security-setters in question, to assure the conferral of legitimacy to the Afghan Government. The presenter argues that the study is not merely pertinent for the Afghan case, but furthers the argument that Afghanistan figures as a laboratory for future conflicts arising along the intrastate chasms that is the legacy for post-colonial states of a past of Western hegemony. Major point of discussion and suggestions to the author:
Report prepared by Gulbin Sultana, IDSA |
South Asia | |||
| Politics and Perceptions of Indian Aid to Nepal | October 19, 2012 | Monalisa Adhikari | 1030 to 1300 hrs | Fellows' Seminar |
Chairperson: Maj Gen Ashok K Mehta (Retd) |
South Asia | |||
| Early Years of Nuclear Cooperation and Non-Proliferation: A Dialogue on Nuclear Historicities | October 10, 2012 | 1000 hrs | Conference |
Venue: Auditorium, IDSA Programme0930-1000: Registration Inaugural Session1000-1005: Opening remarks by Dr. Arvind Gupta, DG, IDSA [Watch Video] 1005-1020: Keynote address by Shri Pinak Chakravarty, Special Secretary (Public Diplomacy), Ministry of External Affairs [Watch Video] 1020-1045: Special address by Dr. Christian Ostermann, Co-Director, NPIHP [Watch Video] 1045-1100: Tea/coffee break 1100-1300: Session I — Early years of international nuclear cooperation
1300: Lunch 1400: Session II — Nehru, non-proliferation and the bomb
1530: Tea/Coffee Break 1545-1730: Panel Discussion: India’s nuclear decision making 1964-74 [Watch Video]
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Nuclear and Arms Control | ||||
| Talk by Jaideep Saikia on "Distant Frontier: Encapsulating Recent Developments in India's North East and Its Neighbourhood" | October 01, 2012 | 1430 hrs | Other |
Venue: Room 105, IDSA |
Terrorism & Internal Security | ||||
| IDSA-BESA Bilateral Round Table | September 20, 2005 to September 21, 2005 | Bilateral |
This latest round of bilateral discussions was held in New Delhi. The first day of discussions focused upon Indian and Israeli perspectives on security, the situation in West Asia and its global impact, and on the threat of terrorism faced by the two countries. Day Two was devoted to bisecting, analysing and prognosticating about India-Israel cooperation. The BESA team was led by its director Prof. Efraim Inbar and included Dr. Avi Kober and Dr. Ze'ev Maghen. Mr. Narendra Sisodia led the IDSA team, which included: Dr. P R Kumaraswamy of Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Col. Basant Repswal and Dr. S Kalyanaraman. |