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News Puducherry, India - 2nd September 2011

UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute of South Asian Regional Cooperation (UMISARC) & Southern Asia Studies Programme  Pondicherry University cordially invite you to a talk on

Conflict and Cooperation in South Asia: A Case of India-Pakistan-China Triangle

by Dr. W Lawrence S Prabhakar

About the Speaker: Dr. W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar, M.A (Madras Christian College), Ph.D. (University of Madras) is an Associate Professor of Strategic Studies and International Relations in the department of Political Science at Madras Christian College, India and Adjunct Research Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (Formerly Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Dr. Prabhakar specializes in academic and policy research on the following areas: Nuclear Missile issues in Southern Asia; on Maritime Security issues in the Indian Ocean and the Asia-Pacific Region and on research in India-United States Strategic Relations; Grand Strategy of India and Grand Strategy of China. His primary interests on Nuclear weapons have featured in his projects with Henry Stimson Center, Washington DC USA; Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC USA and with the Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques, Paris, France.

His earlier research fellowships have been at the Center for Political Studies, Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan Ann Arbor Visiting Fellow, The Henry Stimson Center, Washington DC USA, where he worked on “The Draft Indian Nuclear Doctrine: Perspectives of Regional & Global Nuclear Powers” May–August 2001; In this stint he also worked on “Indian Security Perspectives of the PLA Navy in South Asia” for the Center for Naval Analysis, Alexandria Virginia USA.. He had been on fellowships to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC and the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii.

He is a Founding Member and Founding Member-Secretary, Centre for Security Analysis, Chennai, an Independent Non-profit, Nonpartisan, policy research think tank based in Chennai, India.

Date & Time: September 2, 2011, at 10.30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m

Venue: UMISARC
Silver Jubilee Campus
Pondicherry University

Prof. N.K. Jha
Director, UMISARC