PROGRAMME

0945-1000
Welcome Remarks: M. Braut-Hegghammer, Assistant Professor at the Norwegian Defence University College

Introductory Remarks: N.S. Sisodia, Director-General, IDSA

Session 1

1000 – 1200

NUCLEAR BEHAVIOUR AND REGIONAL STABILITY
Chair: Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer

• Vipin Narang — Pakistan nuclear crisis behaviour under different regimes
• Karthika Sasikumar — Doctrinal developments: Learning to play the nuclear game in South Asia
• Shanmugasundaram Sasikumar — Organizational learning in solving interactive complexity in India’s nuclear command and control organisation.

Luncheon
(1200-1245)

Session 2

1300-1500

NUCLEAR COOPERATION AND NON-PROLIFERATION
Chair: V. Krishnappa

• Nicola Horsburgh — Organizations in China: Explaining Past and Present Chinese Approaches to Nuclear Proliferation
• Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer — Preferences, path dependence and nuclear proliferation: Causes and consequences of nuclear acquisition strategies
• Sebastien Miraglia — Civil nuclear co-operation and nuclear proliferation in Pakistan: ‘Atoms for Peace’ or atoms for war?
• Henrik Hiim — The Logic of Restraint: China and the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty Revisited

Session 3

1500-1700

RECENT DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA-UNITED STATES RELATIONS
Chair: Arvind Gupta

• Prashant Hosur — Transformations in India- United States Relations
• Sanjeev Srivastava — India-United States Relations

1700-1705

Concluding remarks: V. Krishnappa, IDSA project coordinator IFS-IDSA Grand Strategic Thought and Practice