The virtual seminar will be held from 12:30-2:00p.m. ET.
The term ‘strategic enclave’ was introduced in 1992 to highlight the institutional and legal boundaries that separated India’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile complexes from its conventional defense industries. The term has since evolved into an informal designation for the scientists and engineers who manage India’s strategic weapons complexes as well as the analysts who shape its military policies and grand strategy. This presentation will reflect on this shift in meaning from political economy to people and what it says about the transformations of the Indian military-industrial-media complex over these past three decades, including self-representation, secrecy, and industrial strategy.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Itty Abraham is a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. He has held positions at the National University of Singapore, University of Texas at Austin, and as program director for Global Security and Cooperation at the Social Science Research Council. His research ranges from postcolonial nuclear studies and international relations to criminal borderlands and refugees. He is the author of India’s ‘Strategic Enclave’: Civilian Scientists and Military Technologies” (1992).