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C Raja Mohan writes: India should be cautious about Trump reaching out to Russia, China and Europe

August 20, 2025 11:47 am

Delhi must avoid slipping into permanent conflict with its neighbours, which only invites more meddling by the great powers. It must back diplomacy with long-overdue economic reform and renewed domestic political unity on key national issues

UPSC Expert Talk | What it means to be an IFS or Indian diplomat, tells former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan

October 16, 2024 4:12 pm

TCA Raghavan highlights the challenges and the role of Indian Foreign Services in the making of our country.

Michael Brecher: Pioneering scholar of Indian foreign policy

January 31, 2022 9:27 am

🔴 His work opened up scholarship on India to the West and the larger world and received much acclaim for being rigorous yet accessible to a wide array of readers

Lessons from Pakistan: how to win friends, influence allies, then squander it all

June 01, 2021 8:05 am

In the 1950s, the country’s prospects seemed much better than many nations in East Asia and the Middle East. By neglecting economic development, letting magnificent obsessions cloud common sense, and privileging feudal and pre-modern ideologies, Pakistan has fallen rapidly behind its peers.

Raja Mandala: In his second term, Modi must deal with turbulence unleashed by Trump’s challenge to global trading order

May 25, 2019 7:40 am

Modi needs to take a strategic view of India’s foreign trade, purposefully explore the possibilities for give and take with the US, and seize on the rearrangement of global production chains in the wake of the US-China trade war. No other set of issues will shape India’s future global trajectory more than a pragmatic reorientation of India’s trade strategy and the reformation of its negotiating structures.

The foreign policy challenge

January 02, 2019 12:19 am

Beyond polls at home, India faces the same challenges as before in its relations with the rest of the world. From Pakistan and China to other neighbours and US, five areas at the centre of India’s foreign policy.

A wider view of Colombo

February 06, 2016 3:24 am

As Sushma Swaraj visits Sri Lanka, India should invest its diplomatic capital in finding a constitutional solution.

A new Panchsheel

October 09, 2014 12:04 am

Modi brings five new emphases to the way India deals with the world.

The less said, the worse

July 29, 2014 12:38 am

India’s silence on critical global issues fits poorly with its global aspirations.

National Interest: 156-inch heart

May 24, 2014 9:52 am

That’s what you need after a 56-inch chest delivers you a majority. Modi knows this as he takes a national stage and makes it global.

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