Programmes offered by the Department: 

  • PhD
  • MA (Defence and Strategic Studies)

Thrust areas of Research 

1. Conventional and non-conventional security threats. 

2. Transnational organized crime and nuclear weapon proliferation 

3. Ethnic politics and conflicts 

4. Global and regional strategic issues 

5. Globalization and its impact on regional politics and security

6. International Relations and Area Studies

Masters of Arts (MA) in Defence and Strategic Studies: An Outline

Procedure and Assessment

Like M.A. Programmes in other Social Science disciplines, the curriculum of Master Degree Programme in Defence and Strategic Studies is executed according to the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) which provides an opportunity for the students to choose courses from the prescribed courses comprising Core, Elective, Open Choice, and Swayam Courses. The minimum number of lectures in each course would be sixty. The assessment of the student is being done basis within the framework of continuous evaluation which includes First Minor Test, Second Minor Test, and Major Examination in each semester. The courses are being evaluated according to the Grading System which is consider more appropriate that the conventional system of assessment.

            Initially, the number of seats may be twenty-five and later this can be increased. The proposed Masters of Arts (MA) Programme has been designed to impart knowledge about the basic concept and various Defence and Strategic dimensions having national and international implications. All courses in  this programme have been based on multi-disciplinary approach which incorporates Fundamentals of Warfare, Strategic Thought, International Relations, National Security of India, India as a Rising Power, Defence Mechanism of India, Fundamentals of Military Psychology, Science, Technology and Defence Economics, International Law, Armament and Arms Control, various issues related to Peace and Conflict Studies, Military System in India, International Security Problems, and four elective course to facilitate a more profound understanding of Defence and Strategic Studies in the context of changing environment of world’s geo-strategic scenario.