Fifth Y B Chavan Memorial Lecture: Securing India’s Borders: The Way Ahead

Dr Madhav Godbole, Former Home Secretary, Government of India would deliver a lecture on ‘Securing India’s Borders: The Way Ahead‘, on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at the Institute for Defence… Continue reading Fifth Y B Chavan Memorial Lecture: Securing India’s Borders: The Way Ahead

Special Address – K Subrahmanyam Memorial Lecture by Kishore Mahbubani

Venue: IDSA Auditorium (2nd Floor) Speaker: Mr Kishore Mahbubani, Dean, LKY School, Singapore Title: Can India be Cunning? Chairperson: Dr Sanjay Baru, Director IISS Press Release Download Summary of the… Continue reading Special Address – K Subrahmanyam Memorial Lecture by Kishore Mahbubani

51st Foundation Day Address by Dr Arvind Panagariya, Vice Chairman, Niti Aayog, on ‘National Security and Development’

The Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) is organising 51st Foundation Day Address by Dr Arvind Panagariya, Vice Chairman, Niti Aayog, on ‘National Security and Development’ on Thursday, November… Continue reading 51st Foundation Day Address by Dr Arvind Panagariya, Vice Chairman, Niti Aayog, on ‘National Security and Development’

Seventh Y.B. Chavan Memorial Lecture: Decline of Internationalism

Programme 1600-1605: Welcome Address by Shri Jayant Prasad, DG, IDSA 1605-1610: Address by Dr RD Pradhan, Representative of Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, Mumbai 1610-1640: Talk by Shri Shyam Saran 1640-1645: Remarks… Continue reading Seventh Y.B. Chavan Memorial Lecture: Decline of Internationalism

Lecture by H.E. Shri Harsh Vardhan Shringla on India-Bangladesh Bilateral Relations: An Indian Perspective

Venue: Boardroom # 104, First Floor About The Speaker High Commissioner Harsh Vardhan Shringla is a career diplomat and a member of the Indian Foreign Service. In the course of… Continue reading Lecture by H.E. Shri Harsh Vardhan Shringla on India-Bangladesh Bilateral Relations: An Indian Perspective

Interaction with the Visiting Editors from Tanzania

Chairperson: Ms. Ruchita Beri In the run up to the Prime Minister of India’s visit to Tanzania in May 2011, four editors from Tanzania visited IDSA in order to generate… Continue reading Interaction with the Visiting Editors from Tanzania

Offensive Defence: Managing deterrence and arms race in a ballistic missile defence environment

Chair: Lt. Gen. Satish NambiarDiscussant: Admiral Raja Menon and Sheelkant Sharma The paper presented was of a conceptual nature which adopted the offence-defence theory to analyze the character of missile… Continue reading Offensive Defence: Managing deterrence and arms race in a ballistic missile defence environment

China’s Territorial Claim on the Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh: Alternative Scenarios 2031

Chairperson: Dr. Arvind GuptaDiscussants: Brig. (Retd.) Rahul Bhonsle, Col. Navneet Kumar, Dr. Rajiv Anantaram, Dr. Jabin Jacob Namrata Goswami’s paper focused on four alternative scenarios in 2031 with regard to… Continue reading China’s Territorial Claim on the Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh: Alternative Scenarios 2031

Lithuanian Delegation’s visit to IDSA

Chair: Ms. Smita Purushottam A Lithuanian delegation comprising Mr. Eitvydas Bajar?nas, Ambassador-at-Large, Political Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, Ms. Diana Mickevi?ien?, Director in charge of… Continue reading Lithuanian Delegation’s visit to IDSA

India’s Defence Diplomacy in the Gulf

Chairperson: Lt Gen Satish Nambiar (Retd)Discussants: Commodore M R Khan (Retd) and Shri Gulshan Luthra Dr. P.K. Pradhan’s paper focused on the topic of India’s defence diplomacy in the Gulf,… Continue reading India’s Defence Diplomacy in the Gulf