FELLOW'S SEMINAR

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 Africa. Economic engagement between India and Africa is increasing like never before though it is not new. During the colonial period, India played a significant… Continue reading India’s Economic Engagement of Africa: Partnering Africa

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 has dealt with this challenge has evolved over this time. The Union Government has been suggesting to other Naxal-affected States that they should adopt the… Continue reading A Critical Evaluation of Andhra Pradesh’s Response to the Naxal Challenge

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 over the continued US military presence in Iraq. However, Iraq and the US have signed a security pact known as Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA)… Continue reading India – Iran relations: Converging Interests or Drifting Equations

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 emerging as an industrial and energy hub of the country. This process of industrialisation has been further boosted by the proximity of the Persian Gulf… Continue reading Securing the Northern Coast of Gujarat: Challenges and Responses

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 East Asia, a region of high economic prosperity at that time. It was also propelled during a period of economic liberalization within India itself. Further,… Continue reading Looking “East” through India’s North East: Identifying Policy “Challenges” and Outlining the “Responses”

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 tactic largely restricted to Asia. Entrenched in this meticulously defended complex, terrorists challenge the might of the state. This terrorist fortress is characterized by the… Continue reading Storming of Lal Masjid in Pakistan: An Analysis

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 the non-traditional security cluster, since 2008, have been presenting papers and delivering talks on the topic. In April 2008 a run-up workshop was held on… Continue reading Geopolitics of Climate Change and India’s Position

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 either in March or early April (April 3?) 2007. According to Pajhwok Afghan News, the UNF was formed in Kabul on March 12, 2007. Interestingly,… Continue reading The United National Front in Afghan Politics: An Explorative Study

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 global nuclear commerce, is seen as a means to facilitate India’s greater integration with the global non-proliferation regime. India was always credited to be an… Continue reading India and the Non-Proliferation Regime: Looking Beyond the Nuclear Deal

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 improve its effectiveness. Modern-day biotechnology could be regarded as a multidisciplinary field where its utility has grown beyond traditional uses like agriculture and medicine. This… Continue reading Role of Biotechnology in Defence

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 because these threats were too diffuse and inchoate. This prevented a appropriate and timely response from the state to this threat. There was a tendency… Continue reading Confronting the Threat in Cyberspace

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

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

Chair: Arvind Gupta Discussants: G Balachandran & Savita Pande

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

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

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

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

Chair: Sujit Dutta Discussants: Mohan Guruswamy & Bhaskar Roy

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

Chair: Arvind Gupta Discussants: Ravi Sawhney & Vivek Wadekar

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

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

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

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

Chair: Ved Marwah Discussant: Prakash Singh

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

Chair: Arundhati Ghose Discussant: Tasneem Meenai

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

Chair: Ved Marwah Discussants: Jatinderbir & Rahul K Bhonsle

Chair: Veena Sikri Discussants: Kalim Bahadur & G Dharmendra

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

Chair: R N Kapur Discussant: Bhagat Oinam

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

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

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

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

Chair: Kapil Kak Discussants: Pradeep Chauhan & Arun Sahgal

Chair: Arvind Gupta Discussants: Prateek Sharma, Sunil Chauhan & Subodh Sharma

Chair: Sujit Dutta Discussants: M R Narayan Swamy & P Sahadevan

Discussants: A. Sudhakar Reddy, V.G. Hegde & V. Sakhuja

Discussants: Ravi Sawhney & Vivek Katju

Chair: K Raja Menon Discussants: P.D.Badoni & N.Ishwar Prasad

Chair: Sujit Dutta Discussants: Bhaskar Roy & Nitya Nanda

Chair: Ved Marwah Discussants: S P Sinha & Dr Archana Upadhyay

Chair: P. Stobdan Discussant: Ravi Sawhney

Chair: Thomas Mathew Discussants: V.K.K. Chavan & Christopher Samraj

Discussants: S.K. Bhutani & Ravni Thakur

Discussants: Jnan Prakash & M.D Singh

Discussants: Sunil Jain & B. Mohanty

Discussants: Kalim Bahadur, Ajay Darshan Behera & Gulshan Dietl

Discussants: Ashok Mehta & K.V. Rajan

Discussants: Amandeep Singh Gill & Manpreet Sethi

Discussants: Nirmala Joshi & Vinod Anand

Discussants: Amit Cowshish & G. Balachandran

Discussants: Baladas Ghoshal & Arun Sehgal

Discussants: Kalim Bahadur & Rahul Bhonsle

Discussants: R.P. Kaushik & B.K. Sharma

Discussants: S.K. Bhutani & Ashok Mehta

Discussants: Uma Singh & Richard Mahapatra

Discussants: Arjun Asrani & Mohammad Badrul Alam

Discussants: Samay Ram & Archana Upadhyay

Discussants: I.P. Khosla & Vinod Anand

Discussants: V.G. Patankar & P.R. Chari

Discussants: Ved Marwah & Afsir Karim

Discussants: Subhash Chander & Richard Mahapatra

Discussants: Ravi Vohra & Madhu Bhalla

Discussants: Arundhati Ghose & Amandeep Singh Gill

Discussants: S.K. Bhutani & Mohammad Badrul Alam

Discussants: Riyaz Punjabi & Sreedhar Rao

Discussants: Afsir Karim & Ajay Darshan Behera

Discussants: Ashok Mehta & N. Manoharan

Discussants: Uma Singh & Rahul K. Bhosle

Discussants: C. Dasgupta & Sreemati Chakrabarti

Discussants: Kalim Bahadur & Nisha Taneja

Discussants: K. Srinivasan & Jatinder Bir Singh

Discussants: Vinay Shankar & S.D. Muni

Discussant: Chintamani Mahapatra

Discussants: C. Ratnam & Swaran Singh

Discussant: Ajay Behera

Discussants: I.P. Khosla & Nityanand

Discussant: Ashok Mehta

Discussants: Satish Nambiar & B. S. Malik

Discussants: G. Balachandran & Gurmeet Kanwal

Discussants: Y. M. Bammi & Manmohini Kaul

Discussants: E. N Rammohan & Ian Cardozo

Discussant: Satish Kumar

Discussants: Andrey Ipatov & Nandan Unnikrishnan

Discussants: Vivek Chadha & Bibhu Prasad Routray

Discussants: Swaran Singh & P. S. Grewal

Discussants: Kalim Bahadur & Ajay Darshan Behera

Discussants: K. D. Kapoor & Takio Yamada

Discussants: P. R. Chari & Manpreet Sethi

Discussants: Mohan Tikku & Animesh Roul

Discussants: Vinay Shankar & R. T. S. Chhina

Chair: S. Krishnaswamy Discussants: Prasad Rao & Cdr. P. K. Ghosh

Discussants: S. K. Bhutani & Alka Acharya