A pre-eminent scholar on Tibet, Mr Claude Arpi, delivered a talk at IDSA, titled, ‘New Chinese Leadership and the Tibet Question’ on October 4, 2013. Deputy Director General, IDSA, Brig (Retd) Rumel Dahiya, presided over the session.
Lt Gen (Retd) JS Bajwa delivered a talk on ‘Graduating from Dissuasion to Deterrence: Assessment of India's Military Strategy against China’ at IDSA on October 3, 2013. Director General, IDSA, Dr Arvind Gupta presided over the discussion.
Japan considers India as as a new partner in Asia, noted the three-member delegation from the National Institute of Defence Studies (NIDS), Tokyo, Japan, that visited IDSA for the IDSA-NIDS Bilateral on September 25, 2013.
Director of the Asian Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware (USA), Dr Alice Ba, delivered a talk on ‘The United States and East Asia’s Transitioning System: The Significance of the Rebalance’ on September 24, 2013.
IDSA is organising a two day conference on ‘The Geopolitics of the Arctic: Commerce, Governance and Policy’ in close co-operation with three Norwegian research institutions: the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI), the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) and Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), on September 23. 2013. The conference is part of a three year research programme titled AsiArctic, analysing Asia's growing interest in Arctic affairs. It will conclude on September 24, 2013.
Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee and Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, delivered a talk on 'Air Power and IAF's Strategic Transformation' at IDSA on September 23, 2013.
Hasib J Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Dr Steven A Cook delivered a talk on ‘United States Foreign Policy and Middle East’ at IDSA on September 17, 2013. Centre Head, North America Centre, IDSA, Dr G Balachandran chaired the meeting.
IDSA and the Indian Pugwash Society organised a talk by Ambassador Bhaswati Mukherjee on ‘Emerging Challenges to Chemical Weapons Regime’ on September 12, 2013. Director General, IDSA, Dr Arvind Gupta chaired the lecture. Ambassador Mukherjee is a former Permanent Representative of India to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
“Islamic discourse is at a nascent stage and has a long way to go” said Shri Talmiz Ahmad at the launch of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) publication, ‘The Islamist Challenge in West Asia: Doctrinal and Political Competitions after the Arab Spring’, authored by him, on September 5, 2013. Speaking further on the publication, Shri Ahmed said “No political order is sustainable without Islam”.
