Saturday, April 29, 2006
Lipman Room, 8th Floor, Barrows Hall
University of California, Berkeley
This event is co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Travers Department of
Political Science and Institute for International Studies, and the World
Affairs Council and Asia Society of Northern California
Schedule:
8:30-9:00
Continental Breakfast
First Session: A New Relationship?
9:00-9:30
Introductory Remarks
Professor Pradeep Chhibber
Chair, Department of Political Science, and Indo-American Community
Chair of India Studies, University of California, Berkeley
A West Coast Perspective
Ambassador B. S. Prakash
Consul General of India, San Francisco
9:30-10:15
The New US-India Relationship
Ambassador Raminder Singh Jassal
Deputy Chief of Mission
Embassy of India, Washington DC
10:15-10:30
Coffee Break
Second Session: The Nuclear Issue
10:30-11:15
Bringing India into the Global Nonproliferation Regime
Ambassador Karl F. Inderfurth
Director, Graduate Program in International Affairs and John O. Rankin
Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, The Elliot School,
George Washington University; Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
for South Asian Affairs
11:15-12:00
Proliferation Implications of the US-India Relationship
Professor Scott Sagan
Co-Director, Center for International Security and Cooperation; Professor
of Political Science
Stanford University
12:00-1:30
Lunch
Third Session: Regional Dynamics
1:30-2:15
China’s view of the US-India Relationship
Professor Robert Scalapino, Robson Research Professor of Government
(emeritus)
University of California, Berkeley
2:15-3:00
India, the US, and South Asian Regional Security
Ambassador S. K. Lambah
Government of India
3:00-3:30
Summary and Conclusion
Neil Joeck, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Security Research
(CGSR) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Adjunct
Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley
4:00
Adjourn
