Ms Gail Ma from the Australian National University (ANU) delivered a lecture on ‘Market or Non-Market? International Oil Supply Security Strategies of Major Asian Importing Countries’ at IDSA on April 9, 2015.

Ambassador Talmiz Ahmad delivered a talk on ‘Four Years After the Arab Spring: Geopolitical competition in West Asia & Prospects for Political Islam’ at IDSA on April 7, 2015

A National Strategy –– involving governance, development, empowerment and security –– is the basic prerequisite for resolving the challenge posed by Naxalism/Left Wing Extremism in the country, Lt Gen VK Ahluwalia (Retd) said, on June 5, 2014, while delivering a talk at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) on the theme, “Future of the Naxalite Movement”. Author of a recently published book entitled ‘Red Revolution 2020 and beyond: Strategic Challenges to Resolve Naxalism’, he is presently Member, Armed Forces Tribunal, Jaipur Bench.

Distinguished Fellow, IDSA, Shri GK Pillai delivered a lecture on ‘The Naga Peace Talks: What Next?’ at IDSA on June 4, 2014.

India needs to build its defensive capabilities, have better management systems and take other domestic measures to counter the backlash of Islamist Radicalism in Pakistan, insisted experts on Pakistan during a round table discussion on ‘The Sectarian Challenge to Pakistan: Options for India’. The discussion was organised by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) on June 3, 2014.

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Research Fellow, IDSA, Col PK Gautam (Retd) was nominated by TERI University as a member of the Board of Studies (BoS) for TERI University’s new multi-track programme on ‘Water Science and Governance’. The programme is for MTech/MSc/PGD/PG Certificate. Col Gautam participated in reviewing the course curriculum on May 29, 2014.

A three member delegation from China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR, Beijing) visited IDSA on May 29, 2014, for an interaction with the scholars of the East Asia Centre. The discussion focussed on India's Foreign Policy Scenario: Post-2014 Election, China and South Asia Regional Dynamics, and Afghanistan: Post-US Withdrawal.

Government of India’s peace interlocutor for Assam, Shri P C Haldar delivered a talk at IDSA on ‘Peace Processes in the Northeast: Successes and Challenges Today’, on May 26, 2014.

The Internal Security Centre, IDSA, organised a presentation by Mr Sanabam Gunajit Mangang, M'Phil from Calcutta University, on ‘Trans-nationalism: Manipur Insurgents and Myanmar’, on May 19, 2014. Mr Sanabam offered a perspective on the cross border linkages between Manipur insurgent groups and Myanmar, based on his field work in Myanmar and Manipur.

Drawing a parallel between modern day politics and Kautilya’s Arthashastra, National Security Adviser, Shri Shivshankar Menon on Wednesday said, “Kautilya offers distilled experiences of living and operating in a multi-state system, which long predates and is an alternative to Westphalian state system”. Shri Menon was delivering an inaugural address at the one day international seminar on Kautilya, organised by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), in collaboration with the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), on April 9, 2014.