Professors Mattoo and Swaran Singh at University of Hull

Professors Amitabh Mattoo and Swaran Singh (diplomacy and Disarmament Division, CIPOD) will be attending a conference titled After the First Decade: The Politics of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia being organized by the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull, UK (28-29 August).

Prof. Mattoo will be talking about India's nuclear arms control and disarmament policy while Prof. Singh will talk about India's nuclear doctrine. A full copy of the programme can be found here.
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Amitabh Mattoo on India's Pakistan policy

Prof. Amitabh Mattoo recently published an essay in the Financial Express on Indian policy towards Pakistan.

He argues that different policy proponents (he calls them the subedars, the the saudagars and the sufis) need to come together to fashion a policy that would simultaneously maintain deterrence, seek engagement and be open to radical change within Pakistan whenever possible. The full essay can be found here. Comments and discussion welcome . . .
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Himadeep Muppidi to talk at CIPOD on 'The Colonial Signs of International Relations'

Himadeep Muppidi, Associate Professor of Political Science at Vassar College, will give a lecture at CIPOD on Wednesday, 12 August, at 11:00 am.

Prof. Muppidi completed his MA and MPhil at SIS, and PhD at the University of Minnesota. His book, The Politics of the Global, was based on his PhD and published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2004. His talk will be based on his forthcoming book.
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Dr. Siddharth Mallavarappu to lecture on 'Human Rights and Global Governance'

On August 12th, at the invitation of the German Development Institute, Bonn, Dr. Mallavarapu will be addressing young professionals participating in a Global Governance School . . .

The participants are drawn primarily from the newly emerging economies of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Dr. Maalavarapu's presentation shall focus on various sources of skepticism articulated by the Global South with regard to mainstream international human rights thinking. While engaging the idea of human rights, the presentation shall also audit key human rights actors, institutions and prevalent practices. The objective of the presentation is to help stimulate further reflection about some of the limits of the contemporary rights discourse.
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INS-TERI National Workshop

The Indian Nuclear Society (INS) and The Energy Resource Institute (TERI) are organizing a joint conference on “Nuclear energy development in India: Addressing climate change, public perception and large scale deployment”. Details about the conference can be found here.


Thanks to Dr. Negi, who forwarded the details.

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Lawrence Prabhakar to lecture on nuclear disarmament

Lawrence Prabhakar, Associate Professor at theDepartment of Political Science, Madras Christian College, Chennai, will lecture on 'Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Disarmament: New Vistas in the 21st Century'. The lecture will be held in Room 203, SIS Building, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on 4th August, 2009 (Tuesday), at 3:00 pm.

Dr. Prabhakar has written and lectured extensively on Indian security issues.

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Scott Sagan to lecture on 'No First Use'

Scott Sagan will be delivering a lecture on 'The Case for No First Use' based on his recent essay of the same title in Survival. The lecture will be held in Room 203, SIS Building, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, at 3:00 pm on 5 August 2009 (Wednesday). No invitations are required to attend.

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New Cipod blog

This is the new CIPOD Blog. The blog was set up on August 3, 2009. It will take a while for us to get fully up to speed on this blog. But we do hope that you will keep visiting us and help promote a healthy dialogue about international politics, especially but not exclusively, from an academic perspective.
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