Category Archives: Events
NIAS Strategic Forecasts: Reports Release and Discussion, 31 March 2017
The International Strategic & Security Studies Programme at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), has been publishing a series of Strategic Forecasts highlighting trends, threats and projections on contemporary developments at the regional and global levels.
As a part of this series, the ISSSP is launching a series of new reports on 31 March 2017, followed by a full day discussion pertaining to US, China, East Asia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
We invite you to take part in this Forecast discussions and add value to the contents.
The discussion will take place at the NIAS Conference Room between 0930 and 1700 hrs.
India and Space in Current Context | Dr. M Annadurai – Keynote Address at 2016 Indo-US Dialogue
Dr. M. Annadurai, Director, ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bangalore delivered the Keynote Address on October 5, 2016 at the India-US Cooperation on Global Security: Dialogue on Strategic Security Threats of the 21st Century at NIAS Bangalore. Dr. Annadurai spoke on Indian space capabilities and the space situational awareness in the current context.
India-US Cooperation on Global Security: Dialogue on Strategic Security Threats of the 21st Century
The National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore and the National Academies of Sciences, United States held the Indo-US dialogue on Strategic Security Threats of the 21st Century between October 5-7, 2016. The dialogue was held at the JRD Tata Auditorium, NIAS Bangalore.
Click here for the programe of the Indo-US Dialogue.
Public Lecture: Prof Matthew Bunn on Evolving Opportunities for Cooperation in Nuclear Security
Professor Matthew Bunn
Professor of Practice, Harvard University
delivered a Public Lecture on October 6, 2016 on the topic
Evolving Opportunities for Cooperation in Nuclear Security
About the Speaker: Matthew Bunn is a Professor of Practice at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. His research interests include nuclear theft and terrorism; nuclear proliferation and measures to control it; the future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle; and policies to promote innovation in energy technologies. He has played major role in the formulation of U.S. policies related to the control and disposition of weapons-usable nuclear materials in the United States and the former Soviet Union.
Book Discussion: Not War, Not Peace? Motivating Pakistan to Prevent Cross-Border Terrorism
National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
International Strategic and Security Studies Programme
and
Takshashila Institution, Bangalore
Invite you to a
BOOK DISCUSSION
About the Book
The Mumbai blasts of 1993, the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001, Mumbai 26/11—cross-border terrorism has continued unabated. What can India do to motivate Pakistan to do more to prevent such attacks? In the nuclear times that we live in, where a military counter-attack could escalate to destruction beyond imagination, overt warfare is clearly not an option. But since outright peacemaking seems similarly infeasible, what combination of coercive pressure and bargaining could lead to peace?
The authors provide, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of the violent and non-violent options available to India for compelling Pakistan to take concrete steps towards curbing terrorism originating in its homeland. They draw on extensive interviews with senior Indian and Pakistani officials, in service and retired, to explore the challenges involved in compellence and to show how non-violent coercion combined with clarity on the economic, social, and reputational costs of terrorism can better motivate Pakistan to pacify groups involved in cross-border terrorism. Not War, Not Peace? goes beyond the much discussed theories of nuclear deterrence and counterterrorism strategy to explore a new approach to resolving old conflicts.
About the Authors
George Perkovich is Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has worked for three decades on nuclear strategy and security issues in South Asia. Perkovich is the author of India’s Nuclear Bomb.
Toby Dalton is Co-Director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research focusses on cooperative security initiatives and the management of nuclear challenges in South Asia and East Asia. From 2002 to 2010, Dalton served in a variety of positions at the US Department of Energy.
All are cordially invited
Lecture: India and the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES
International Strategic and Security Studies Programme (ISSSP)
India and the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)
Lecture by
Dr N Ramamoorthy
Chairperson
Prof Rajaram Nagappa
05 July 2016, Tuesday
NIAS Lecture Hall, 1100 hrs
Dr N Ramamoorthy served as the Director of the Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria. Earlier he was the Chief Executive (CE), Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology (BRIT) and Associate Director, Isotope Group, BARC, Mumbai. Later he was appointed as Senior Advisor to Director-BARC
Public Lecture: Astropolitics and International Space Governance
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore-12
International Strategic and Security Studies Programme
Public Lecture
Astropolitics and International Space Governance:
Issues and Challenges for the Global Space Community and India
Speaker
Prof. Eligar Sadeh
Chairperson
Dr. Lalitha Sundaresan
Venue, Date & Time
Lecture Hall, NIAS | Monday, May 09, 2016 at 11:30 am
All are cordially invited
Looking East to Act East: Issues and Challenges in India’s Foreign Policy
Department of Southeast and East Asia, University of Calcutta, March 9, 2016
M. Mayilvaganan, Assistant Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
Prakash Panneerselvam, Post Doctoral Associate, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
The International Strategic and Security Studies Programme (ISSSP), National Institute of Advanced Studies NIAS) is co-organising a workshop on “Looking East to Act East: Issues and Challenges in India’s Foreign Policy.” The Workshop is being jointly organised by the University of Calcutta, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), and Observer Research Foundatiion (ORF) Kolkata Chapter, at the Department of Southeast and East Asia, University of Calcutta, March 9, 2016.
Dr. Mayilvaganan will be presenting a paper on the topic “India in Southeast Asia: Assessment of India’s Image and Role – A Case Study of Myanmar and Malaysia.”
Dr. Panneerselvam will be presenting a paper on the topic “Japan’s Interest and Role in Asia.”
ISSSP Reports Release Function
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore-12
International Strategic and Security Studies Programme (ISSSP)
Reports Release Function
Promise of Small Satellites for National Security
Space, War and Security – A Strategy for India
Identification of Uranium Mill Sites from Open Source Satellite Images
Estimating Uranium Mill Capacity Using Satellite Pictures
on
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016 at 4:15 pm, Lecture Hall, NIAS
Programme
4:00 – 4:15: Coffee/Tea
4:15 – 4:20: Welcome and Introduction of Reports by Prof. Rajaram Nagappa
4:20 – 4:30: Release of ISSSP Reports by Prof. Baldev Raj, Director, NIAS
4:30 – 5:00: ISSSP Reports: A Critique by Vice Admiral R N Ganesh & Prof. Y S Rajan
5:00 – 5:30: Response by the Authors
ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED
The Fissile Materials Debate in South Asia
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore-12
International Strategic and Security Studies Programme
PANEL DISCUSSION
The Fissile Materials Debate in South Asia
Panelists
Prof. R Rajaraman
Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics, JNU
&
Dr. L V Krishnan
Former Director, Safety Research and Health Physics Group, DAE
Chairperson
Prof. Rajaram Nagappa
Head, International Strategic and Security Studies Programme, NIAS
Venue, Date & Time
Lecture Hall, NIAS | Monday, February 29, 2016 at 04.15 pm
(Please do join us for Coffee/Tea before the event at 4 pm)
About Speakers:
Dr. L.V. Krishnan is currently Adjunct Faculty at NIAS. He joined the Department of Atomic Energy in 1958 after taking an Honours Degree in Physics from Madras University. Later, he graduated from the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology in 1964. He served in the Health Physics Division at Trombay from 1959 until 1973 and then moved to the Kalpakkam Centre to set up a Safety Research Laboratory. At Trombay, he served as Plant Health Physicist for some time. He has participated in safety evaluation of various nuclear installations including power reactors and reprocessing plants. At Kalpakkam, he was Chairman of Safety Evaluation Working Group and retired in 1997 as Director, Safety Research and Health Physics Group. His current interests relates to energy and environment scene in the country. He is a co-author (with C V Sundaram and T S Iyengar) of the book titled ‘Atomic Energy in India – Fifty Years’, and also a book on ‘Elements of Nuclear Power’ with Raja Ramanna.
Professor R. Rajaraman is currently Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and Co-Chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials. He received his Ph.D. in 1963 from Cornell University under the supervision of the Nobel laureate Prof. Hans Bethe. He was in the faculty of Cornell University, the University of S. California, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before returning to India in 1969. Since then he has been serving in Delhi University, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and finally, J.N.U. He has also been a long-term visiting scientist at Harvard University, M.I.T., Stanford University, Princeton University and CERN, Geneva.
