Mr Bharat Karnad

BHARAT  KARNAD, (B.A. and M.A. from the University of California) is Research Professor in National Security Studies at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and. author, among other books, of India’s Nuclear Policy (Praeger, 2009) and Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security: The Realist Foundations of Strategy, now in its second edition (Macmillan India, 2002, 2005), and of chapters in numerous anthologies, including “Security and Sovereignty” in Hans Gunter Brauch, et al, eds., Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century, (Springer Verlag, 2008), “South Asia: The Irrelevance of Classical Nuclear Deterrence Theory” in E. Sridharan, ed., The India-Pakistan Nuclear Relationship: Theories of Deterrence and International Relations (Routledge, 2007),  “The India-United States Rapprochement, the Nuclear Deal, and Indian National Interest” in Prakash Nanda, ed., Rising India: Friends and Foes (Lancer, 2007), “Firming Up the Critical Capability Triad: Strategic Muscle, Sub-Conventional Punch, and IT-enabled Network Centricity and Electro-Magnetic Warfare Clout” in Lieutenant General (ret) Vijai Oberoi, ed., Army 2020 (Centre for Land Warfare Studies, 2005) and “India’s Force-Planning Imperative: The Thermonuclear Option” in D.R. Sardesai and Raju G.C. Thomas, eds., Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave, 2002).  He has also published research papers and review essays in The Journal of Strategic Studies, The Round Table:  Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, and India Review.

He was Member of the (First) National Security Advisory Board, National Security Council, Government of India, and Member of the Nuclear Doctrine Drafting Group and, formerly, Adviser, Defence Expenditure to the Finance Commission.  Consulted by the Prime Minister, Minister for Defence and the Minister for External Affairs and Members of Parliament, he has scripted and conducted nuclear war games for the Integrated Defence Staff, drawn up the syllabus and conducted the first strategic nuclear orientation course for senior military officers for the Ministry of Defence, and is a regular lecturer at leading military and other policy forums, including the Combined Operational Review and Evaluation program (involving Lieutenant General and Major General rank officers and equivalent), Army Corps and Division-level forums, Army War College, College of Naval Warfare, College of Air Warfare, Defence Services Staff College, National Police Academy, and Foreign Service Institute.

Abroad, he has been invited to give talks at the US State Department, Brookings Institution, Shanghai Institute of International Studies, Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, and Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore. He has participated in Track II dialogues with the United States, China, Pakistan and Israel.
            
Bharat Karnad's presentation at the Countering Militancy in Pakistan: Domestic, Regional and International Dimensions Conference was, Militancy in Pakistan: Implications and Possible Strategies for India.