Navigating Through Troubled Waters: Bangladesh’s Experience with India and Myanmar

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

Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, Tibet and Implications for South Asian Security

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

Visit of the Canadian National Security Programme

The Canadian National Security Programme visited IDSA on February 25, 2010. The delegation comprising 20 members of Colonel and equivalent ranks was led by the Commandant, Brig. Gen. D.C. Hilton.… Continue reading Visit of the Canadian National Security Programme

Interaction with Enrique Salem, CEO of Symantec

IDSA hosted an interactive discussion with Mr. Enrique Salem, President and Chief Executive Officer of Symantec Corporation, on the topic “The Information Security Agenda”. Mr. Salem posed the current challenges… Continue reading Interaction with Enrique Salem, CEO of Symantec

Space Assets and India’s Capability (Specific to Satellite Communication for Defence Forces up to 2020 and Beyond)

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)

Energy Related Border Adjustment Measures: Will it Lead to Trade War?

Ms. Shebonti Ray Dadwal, Research Fellow, presented her paper titled “Energy Related Border Trade Measures: Can it lead to trade war?” on 12 March 2010. Dr. Arvind Gupta chaired the… Continue reading Energy Related Border Adjustment Measures: Will it Lead to Trade War?

Sustaining Motivation in Sub-Conventional Warfare

Chairperson: Ashok MehataDiscussants: Arun Sahgal and N.P. SinghInternal Discussants: Rumel Dahiya and S. Kalayanaraman Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok Mehta stated at the very outset that India fought its last conventional… Continue reading Sustaining Motivation in Sub-Conventional Warfare

Future of International Climate Regime

Climate change is on top of the international and national political and strategic agendas. Post Copenhagen climate conference of December 2009, this was the first event organised by the non-traditional… Continue reading Future of International Climate Regime

The Obama Doctrine: Deciphering Obama’s Nuclear Policy and What it bodes for India

In his paper “The Obama Doctrine: Deciphering Obama’s Nuclear Policy and What it bodes for India,” A. Vinod Kumar examined President Obama’s nuclear policies and critically assessed its implications for… Continue reading The Obama Doctrine: Deciphering Obama’s Nuclear Policy and What it bodes for India

Prospects for India-US Cyber-Security Cooperation

Dr. Cherian Samuel notes that cyber security is a significant domain for policy makers in India to formulate a hands-on approach, as there is clear evidence over the past decade… Continue reading Prospects for India-US Cyber-Security Cooperation