A group of 12 members from National Defense University (NDU), China visited IDSA and interacted with the IDSA scholars on May 18, 2012. The interaction was chaired by Deputy, Director General, IDSA, Brig. Rumel Dahiya (Retd).
A 12 member US National War College delegation, led by Ms Anne Aarnes, Career Minister in the Senior Foreign Service in USAID, visited IDSA on May 8, 2012.
A three member delegation of The Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, including Director, Walter Lohman, Senior Research Fellow, Lisa Curtis and Research Fellow, Dean Cheng visited IDSA on May 2, 2012.
Ambassador of Tunisia, HE, Mr Tarek AZOUZ visited Director General IDSA, Dr Arvind Gupta on May 2, 2012. The Ambassador expressed keenness towards developing cooperation between the IDSA and the National Institute of Defence, Tunisia.
Editors/senior journalists from State owned China International Publishing Group (CIPG) visited IDSA and interacted with the scholars on April 23, 2012.
A delegation from the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), Bahrain, headed by Dr Muhammad Abdul Ghaffar (Advisor to the HM, The King for Diplomatic Affairs) visited IDSA for an interaction with IDSA scholars on April 19, 2012.
Director General of Guangdong Foreign Affairs Office, Mr Fu Lang, visited IDSA on April 18, 2012 and discussed the prospects of enhancing economic cooperation with India.
Joint Secretary (DISA), the Ministry of External Affairs, Shri D Bala Venkatesh Varma briefed IDSA scholars and the Delhi-based Indian strategic community on 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit, at IDSA on April 9, 2012.