Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Smruti S. Pattanaik delivered two lectures for the Masters Program at the South Asian University (SAU) on April 18-19, 2012. Her lectures were on ‘SAARC and the idea of regional cooperation’ and ‘Instruments for Optimising benefits of Regional Cooperation within SAARC: SAFTA, Convention and Protocol on Terrorism and Agreements on Social Issues’ respectively.