“India needs to create a climate and environment within which security is built into our cyber and communications working methods”, said National Security Advisor (NSA), Mr Shiv Shankar Menon. Mr Menon was releasing the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses’ (IDSA) report on India's Cyber Security Challenges at IDSA on May 16, 2012.

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India and Russia should resort to candid dialogue to sort out any concerns arising out Russia’s relations with China and Pakistan and India’s relations with the US, insisted Amb. Prabhat Shukla, Jt. Director, VIF, (Former Ambassador to Russia). Amb. Shukla was giving a key note address at the International Conference on ‘Emerging Geo-political Trends in Asia: Prospects and Challenges for India-Russia Relations’, organised by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) on May 14, 2012.

Professor Alain Bogé, who teaches Geopolitics at Catholic University, Lille, visited IDSA and initiated a discussion on String of Pearls on May 10, 2012.

Director General for Asian and Pacific Affairs, Federal Foreign Office of Germany, Ambassador Cyrill Nunn, delivered a talk on ‘Indo-German Relations’ on May 3, 2012 at IDSA.

Joint Secretary, Eurasia Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Mr Ajay Bisaria, spoke on “Developments in Russia” at IDSA on May 2, 2012.

A Round Table was organised at IDSA on April 24, 2012 to critique the chapters on Internal Security and Nuclear Issues of the document ‘Non Alignment 2.0’, released a few weeks ago.

Professor Dibyesh Anand, Reader (Associate Professor) in international relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Westminster University, delivered a talk on "Remembering 1962 War: Politics of Memory" at IDSA on April 20, 2012.

Mr Michael Liebig of Frankfurt University's political science faculty gave a presentation on “Endogenous Politico-Cultural Resources: Kautilya's Arthashastra and India's Strategic Culture’ in IDSA on April 19, 2012.

Foreign Secretary, Mr Ranjan Mathai in his key note address advocated full membership for India in the four export control regimes. Mr Mathai was speaking during a one day National Seminar on Strategic Export Control, organized jointly by the Ministry of External Affairs and IDSA on April 18, 2012.

IDSA, along with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) of Germany organized a roundtable on ‘Emerging International Strategic Dynamics: Indian and EU Perspectives’. The dialogue provided an opportunity for experts to analyze the current dynamics in the India-EU relationship, the changing international strategic environment and its implications for each other.