FELLOW'S SEMINAR

Chair: Kapil Kak Discussants: Pradeep Chauhan & Arun Sahgal

Chair: N.S. Sisodia Discussants: S K Bhutani & Bhaskar Roy

Chair: Arvind Gupta Discussants: Dinesh K Patnaik & M Padma Suresh

Chair: Thomas Mathew Discussants: Rahul K Bhonsle & Indranil Banerjie

Chair: Sujit Dutta Discussants: Baladas Ghoshal & P S Grewal

Chair: R N Kapur Discussant: Bhagat Oinam

Chair: Sujit Dutta Discussants: K V Kesavan & Srinivas Gotru

Chair: Veena Sikri Discussants: Kalim Bahadur & G Dharmendra

Chair: Ved Marwah Discussants: Jatinderbir & Rahul K Bhonsle

Chair: Thomas Mathew Discussants: Vinod Kumar Misra & Satyajeet Rajan

Chair: Arundhati Ghose Discussant: Tasneem Meenai

Chair: Ranjit Gupta Discussants: G V C Naidu & C S Kuppuswamy

Chair: Ved Marwah Discussant: Prakash Singh

Chair: Arvind Gupta Discussants: Y M Bammi & Siddarth Varadarajan

Chair: V.P. Dutt Discussants: Madhu Bhalla & Vinod Anand

Chair: K. Santhanam Discussants: Anupam Srivastava & Pallava Bagla

Chair: V.P. Dutt Discussants: Madhu Bhalla & Nandan Unnikrishnan

Chair: Arvind Gupta Discussants: Ravi Sawhney & Vivek Wadekar

Chair: Ranjit Gupta Discussants: V K Nair & J Madhan Mohan

Chair: Sujit Dutta Discussants: Mohan Guruswamy & Bhaskar Roy

Chair: Professor Kalim Bahadur Discussants: Veena Sikri & Bhaskar Roy

Chair: N.S. Sisodia Discussants: Satish Chandra & R Rajagopalan

Chair: Sujit Dutta Discussants: Ram Upendra Das & Prashant Agrawal

Chair: Ved Marwah Discussants: J N Roy & D M Mitra

Chair: Arvind Gupta Discussants: G Balachandran & Savita Pande

Chair: V P Dutt Discussants: S K Bhutani & Baladas Ghoshal

Chair: V G Patankar Discussants: Shakti Sinha & Gurmeet Kanwal

Chair: Thomas MathewDiscussants: Prem Chand & Subimal Bhattacharjee The central premises of the paper presenter were that governements were neglecting the current threats on the Internet not out negligance but… Continue reading Confronting the Threat in Cyberspace

Chair: B S SacharDiscussants: B M Gandhi & Sachin Chaturvedi In the 21st century, the science of biology has been found adopting various techniques from other fields of life to… Continue reading Role of Biotechnology in Defence

Chair: G BalachandranDiscussants: K C Singh & R R Subramanian The India-United States civil nuclear cooperation agreement, announced through the July 18, 2005 joint statement, besides opening the doors for… Continue reading India and the Non-Proliferation Regime: Looking Beyond the Nuclear Deal

Chair: P StobdanDiscussant: Kalim Bahadur There remains an element of ambiguity as to when the United National Front formally came into being. It is generally believed to have been formed… Continue reading The United National Front in Afghan Politics: An Explorative Study

Chair: R RajagopalanDiscussants: Ashutosh Varshney & Sunil Chauhan Climate change and security as a subject of enquiry is now being pursued by the IDSA in a comprehensive manner. Scholars from… Continue reading Geopolitics of Climate Change and India’s Position

Chair: S K BhutaniDiscussants: Ved Marwah & Sudhir Sharma Conversion of a religious place by terrorists into a heavily fortified safe sanctuary over a protracted period of time is a… Continue reading Storming of Lal Masjid in Pakistan: An Analysis

Chair: Sujit DuttaDiscussants: Bhagat Oinam and Archana Upadhyay The “Look East” policy was envisioned by the Narasimha Rao government in 1991 to outline a focused foreign policy approach towards South… Continue reading Looking “East” through India’s North East: Identifying Policy “Challenges” and Outlining the “Responses”

Chair: Nalin DewanDiscussants: K. C. Pandey, M. L. Batham and J. S. Bhalla The Northern coast of Gujarat (the Kutch and Saurashtra coast adjoining the Gulf of Kutch) is fast… Continue reading Securing the Northern Coast of Gujarat: Challenges and Responses

Chair: Ranjit GuptaDiscussants: Ishrat Aziz and Anwar Alam The West Asian region is currently in a state of flux. Iraq is far from being stabilized and questions are being raised… Continue reading India – Iran relations: Converging Interests or Drifting Equations

Chair: G. D BakshiDiscussants: D. K. Karthikeyan and J. N. Roy Andhra Pradesh has been dealing with the Naxalite challenge for a long time and the way in which it… Continue reading A Critical Evaluation of Andhra Pradesh’s Response to the Naxal Challenge

Chair: Arvind GuptaDiscussants: Dilip Lahiri and Shipra Tripathi Historically, the principal tenet of India’s policy towards Africa has been support for the struggle for decolonization and racial discrimination in South… Continue reading India’s Economic Engagement of Africa: Partnering Africa

Chair: Arvind GuptaDiscussants: Ravi Sawhney and Rahul K Bhonsle Since 1951, China had fueled massive economic investment in Tibet. In recent decades, infrastructure assumed the salience in China’s Tibet strategy,… Continue reading Tibet: Connectivity, Capabilities and Consequences

Chair: Ved MarwahDiscussants: G. D. Bakshi and K. M. Madhusudhanan Various case studies of Naxalite-related incidents have revealed that one of the prime reasons for recurring security forces casualties has… Continue reading Spreading Tentacles of Left-Wing Extremism: Are we Failing in Police Training: A case study of Chhattisgarh

Chair: P. StobdanDiscussants: Ashok Mehta and Sangeeta Thapliyal The paper, An Exploratory Framework for India’s Relationship with New Nepal, was presented by Dr. Nihar Nayak. Professor P. Stobdan was the… Continue reading An Exploratory Framework for India’s relationship with ‘New Nepal’

Chair: Arvind GuptaDiscussants: Bhaskar Roy and Sanjay Bharadwaj “Terror Financing in Bangladesh” by Dr. Anand Kumar outlined key factors that contribute to terror financing in Bangladesh. Dr. Kumar’s primary argument… Continue reading Terror Financing in Bangladesh

Chair: Hari PrasadDiscussants: Arun Sahgal and Manpreet Sethi Strategic doctrine is taken here to be implemented by a combine of war fighting land, air, naval and joint doctrines in conjunction… Continue reading Rethinking Strategic Doctrine in the Indo-Pak Context

Chair: Sudhir DevareDiscussants: Baladas Ghoshal and C. S. Kuppuswamy The major argument of the paper was that the government’s stance with regard to constraining religious assertion in Malaysia has been… Continue reading Religious Assertion in Malaysia

Chair: V.G PatankarDiscussants: Kalim Bahadur and Ajay D Behera Pakistan’s self image, geographical location and history have influenced the country’s strategic thinking. In the initial years, Pakistan perceived itself to… Continue reading Pakistan’s Strategic Thinking

Chair: G. BalachandranDiscussants: Shakti Sinha, K. C. Singh and Rahul Bhonsle Afghanistan today appears to be teetering on the brink of failure and unending chaos. Despite the military endeavour by… Continue reading US Counter Insurgency Approach in Afghanistan Under Obama Administration: Does It Portend ‘Change’?

Chair: Arvind GuptaDiscussants: Anuradha Reddy and Sunil Kumar After the Cold War, India’s foreign relations have become multi-directional and diversified. Growing realisation that international defence cooperation can supplement diplomatic initiatives… Continue reading Benefits of India’s Defence Cooperation Initiatives towards the Foreign Policy Goals

Chair: V. K. MisraDiscussants: Amit Cowshish and Sujeet Samaddar India’s security comes with a huge price tag. In 2009-10, the defence budget reached Rs. 1,41,703 crores, representing nearly one-seventh of… Continue reading Rationale for Performance Oriented Defence Budgeting

Chair: Rajiv SikriDiscussants: Arun Sahgal and K. P. Vijayalakshmi The debate on strategic autonomy makes a conceptual contribution about how India as an emerging power seeks to forge a partnership… Continue reading India’s Strategic Autonomy Dilemma and the Rapprochement with the United States

Chair: Prakash SinghDiscussants: G. D. Bakshi and Arun Sahgal In her presentation titled ‘A Scenario-Building Method on India’s North East’, Dr. Namrata Goswami projected the vision of a peaceful and… Continue reading A Scenario-Building Method on India’s North East: Time Horizon 2015

Chair: Kanwal SibalDiscussants: K. C. Singh and Christopher S Raj The presentation of Professor Steven Hoffman began by examining the question “Is diplomatic style important and what impact does it… Continue reading The Indo-US Relationship: Is Diplomatic Style Important?

Chair: Vinod PatneyDiscussants: R. K. Pruthi and Rahul K Bhonsle The paper argued that the futuristic battlefield is going to depend substantially on deployment of standoff weapons and virtual technology.… Continue reading Military Robots

Chair: C Uday BhaskarDiscussants: Kalim Bahadur and Siddharth Varadarajan In 1947 Swat was a princely state that was ruled by Miangul Abdul Haq Jehanzeb, the Wali of Swat, who was… Continue reading Accomodation with Militants in Swat: Implications For Regional Security

Chair: R RajagopalanDiscussants: Luther Rangreji and Purnamita Dasgupta Climate change has the potential to create conditions for changing foreign policy in a globalised world. It dares to test whether the… Continue reading Climate Change and Foreign Policy: The UK Approach

Chair: B S MalikDiscussants: V Raghuraman and Sanjay Verma Though the case for incorporating renewable energy into national energy policies has been around for decades, the growing debate on climate… Continue reading Can Renewables Enhance Energy Security?

India and Pakistan were again on the verge of a military confrontation following revelation of Pakistan’s complicity in the Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008. Pakistan reluctance to act against… Continue reading Low Intensity Conflict under Nuclear Conditions: Analysing the India-Pakistan Theatre

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: M. S Chowdhury Discussants: Rahul Bhonsle and Chandar S Sundaram “Trends in thinking about warfare” presented at the IDSA Fellow Seminar on… Continue reading Trends in Thinking about Warfare

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: Rajaram PandaDiscussants: Vijay Sakhuja The paper discusses the overall coastal security arrangement in Maharashtra. The first part of the paper deals with… Continue reading Coastal Security Arrangement in Maharashtra: An Assessment

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: K Raghunath Discussants: Divyabh Manchanda, Arun Sahgal and Arun Mohanty The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) represents a major development in the strategic… Continue reading The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and Afghanistan

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: S K BhutaniDiscussants: Arun Sahgal and M. V. Rappai Since China underwent a series of reforms back in the 1970s, the world… Continue reading Dragon’s Digital Eyes beyond the Himalayas: Online Chinese Nationalism towards Pakistan And India

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: Arun BhagatDiscussants: S Y Thapliyal and Bibhu Prasad Routray In India, the word terrorism came to be officially used for the first… Continue reading A new wave of Terrorism in India

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: Santosh KumarDiscussants: G Balachandran and Jayshree Sengupta The objective of this paper is to analyse the economic relations between India and United… Continue reading Locating Priorities in India-US Strategic Economic Engagement

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: Kalim BahadurDiscussants: Ashok Behuria and Anwar Alam Pakistan has witnessed a significant shift in the politics of religion. Islam in the initial… Continue reading ‘New’ Radicals and ‘Old’ Islamists: Understanding the Politics of Religious Radicalization in Pakistan and its Implications

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: A K DovalDiscussants: J N Roy and G D Bakshi A Communist party, according to classical understanding, requires ‘three magic weapons’ to… Continue reading Maoists’ Tactical United Front (TUF) and Urban Movement

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: Amb. Arjun AsraniDiscussants: Dr. Vijay Sakhuja and Dr. Chintamani Mahapatra In recent years, piracy and terrorism on high seas are posing serious… Continue reading Piracy, Maritime Terror and Policy Response

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: Arvind GuptaDiscussants: Subodh Malakar and Patrick Hoenig During the last one year Somalia has captured global attention, due to the surge in… Continue reading Piracy in Somalia: Need to Address the Root Cause

Chair: Brahma ChellaneyDiscussants: R R Subramanian and Sitakanta Mishra The main focus of this paper is the security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and for this purpose the secrecy of nuclear… Continue reading Thinking about Pakistan’s Nuclear Security in Peacetime, Crisis and War

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: Rajaram PandaDiscussants: J N Roy and K Srinivasan The paper analyzes the ongoing insurgency in the North East and argues that the… Continue reading Changing Nature of Insurgency in Northeast and Role of Bangladesh

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: Rajaram PandaDiscussants: J Madan Mohan and Sitakanta Mishra The tremendous transformation in the strategic and security environment of Japan in the last… Continue reading Will Japan go Nuclear?

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: Rajiv SikriDiscussants: Srikanth Kondapalli and Rajeswari Rajagopalan The objective of this is paper is to understand the China’s strategic perception of India.… Continue reading Understanding Chinese Perceptions of India

Chair: Shantanu ChowdhuryDiscussants: Gulshan Sachdeva and Peter Garretson The paper attempts to analyse the role of European Union in the Afghan-Pak region. Strategy in Af-Pak region has been widely debated… Continue reading Evaluating EU’s role in the Af-Pak Region

Chair: Vinod Kumar MisraDiscussants: V. K Chopra and G Balachandran The aim of this paper is to analyse the reasons behind the poor performance of the ordnance factories (OFs) and… Continue reading Revitalising the Ordnance Factories

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: K C SinghDiscussants: Ravi Sawhney and B R Muthukuma This paper is an attempt to assess options before India as insecurity and… Continue reading The Afghan Maze and India’s Options

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chair: N S Sisodia Discussants: Shishir Upadhyaya and Vijay Sakhuja

Chairperson: Aditya SinghDiscussants: R. Dahiya and Gaurav Kampani Aim and Scope Implications of Pakistani nuclear use for India’s nuclear and conventional doctrine. This paper revisits the ‘Sundarji doctrine’ to assess… Continue reading Limitation in Nuclear War: Doctrinal Implication for India of Pakistani Nuclear Use

Only by Invitation 1030 to 1300 hrs Chairperson: Saeed NaqviDiscussants: Gulshan Dietl and Anwar Alam The uneasy relationship between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Iran is one of the… Continue reading GCC – Iran Relations and its Strategic Implications for the Region

Amb. Rajagopalan chaired the session while Mr. Mukul Sanwal and Mr. V. Raghuraman were external discussants and Avinash Godbole and Antoine Levesques were internal discussants. Dr. Uttam Sinha highlighted the… Continue reading Copenhagen Summit: Climate Change Debate

Chair: Dr. Rajaram PandaExternal Discussants: Dr. P.K. Ghosh Senior Fellow, CAPS and Prof. Chintamani Mahapatra, JNU Presentation The paper’s core question “What factors influence why states make the decision to… Continue reading To Develop or not to Develop?: The Political Dimension of BMD Procurement in Japan and India

The paper presenter’s aim was to create a new discourse that treats Tibet as a regional, if not a global, commons that has wide-ranging implications for all of South Asia… Continue reading Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, Tibet and Implications for South Asian Security

During the Cold War, there was a complete focus on the military competition because these two things projected as power and increase security of the states. Given the evolving nature… Continue reading Indo-Africa Narcotics Ties

Chairperson: Ramesh V. PhadkeDiscussants: Srikant Kondapalli and P. K. Ghosh The research objective of this paper is to develop and explore a broader range of plausible scenarios for East Asia… Continue reading Mapping East Asian Futures 2030

Chairperson: Dr. Arvind GuptaDiscussants: Alok Bansal and General Barmer Dr. Sreeradha Datta, notes that Bangladesh’s maritime boundary dispute with India and Myanmar is becoming increasingly salient in their bilateral relations.… Continue reading Navigating Through Troubled Waters: Bangladesh’s Experience with India and Myanmar

Colonel Deepak Sharma treated the subject from the larger point of view of national security. He argued that space assets constitute a sub-set in the broader structure of national security,… Continue reading Space Assets and India’s Capability (Specific to Satellite Communication for Defence Forces up to 2020 and Beyond)