C. Raja Mohan holds the Korea Chair at the Council for Strategic and Defence Research, Delhi and is a contributing editor on international affairs for The Indian Express.
March 22, 2022 04:00 IST
C. Raja Mohan writes: Washington could seize the current opportunity, amid Ukraine crisis, to elevate US's salience, limit the traditional economic and military weight of China and Russia in the Subcontinent.
Tue, Mar 22, 2022March 15, 2022 04:00 IST
C. Raja Mohan writes: Whichever way it plays out, the current crisis has affirmed America’s pole position
Thu, Mar 17, 2022March 08, 2022 03:55 IST
C. Raja Mohan writes: Countries in the region are worried and want to prepare for the possibility that China may emulate Russia and invade Taiwan.
Sat, Mar 19, 2022March 01, 2022 03:00 IST
C. Raja Mohan writes: As Europe unites against the Russian president’s aggression, India must realise that Putin and Russia are not the same.
Tue, Mar 01, 2022February 22, 2022 03:30 IST
C. Raja Mohan writes: Delhi can’t forever view Central Europe through Moscow’s prism. It must appreciate region's salience, independence.
Wed, Feb 23, 2022February 15, 2022 03:30 IST
C. Raja Mohan writes: Strengthening engagement with the region, stronger partnerships can enhance India’s reach and impact.
Wed, Feb 16, 2022February 08, 2022 04:00 IST
C. Raja Mohan writes: Delhi has its own interests to keep in mind. It will struggle to tread the middle ground as Russia-China and US-led blocs consolidate their global coalitions
Wed, Feb 09, 2022February 01, 2022 03:20 IST
C. Raja Mohan writes: Until now, India had the luxury of treating its foreign, economic and strategic policies as separate domains. It needs to integrate its financial, trade, technological, security and foreign policies
Wed, Feb 02, 2022January 25, 2022 03:30 IST
🔴 C. Raja Mohan writes: Greater engagement with Europe and dealing with its multiple contradictions must necessarily be important elements of India’s international relations today
Tue, Jan 25, 2022January 18, 2022 04:30 IST
🔴 C. Raja Mohan writes: Islamabad’s new national security policy acknowledges the need to walk a different path as its multiple crises become more intense. Delhi should watch, be prepared to react positively
Tue, Jan 18, 2022January 11, 2022 04:00 IST
🔴 C. Raja Mohan writes: Current crises in Belarus, Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Kazakhstan are reshaping the geopolitics of the region, with Russia at the very centre of that restructuring.
Wed, Jan 12, 2022January 04, 2022 03:45 IST
C. Raja Mohan writes: Russia’s face-off with the West shows that spheres of influence are here to stay as instruments to regulate competition between great powers. But they endure only when the dominant power is wise and its neighbours are prudent.
Tue, Jan 04, 2022December 28, 2021 04:15 IST
🔴 C Raja Mohan writes: The two neighbours may well just muddle along in 2022. But structural changes are altering the internal and external context of the bilateral relationship as well the regional balance of power
Wed, Dec 29, 2021December 21, 2021 03:00 IST
🔴 C Raja Mohan writes: In the past, Delhi’s strategic enthusiasm for Moscow was shaped by India’s difficulties with the West. Today, a reconciliation between Russia and the West will make help India manage its own security challenges.
Tue, Dec 21, 2021December 14, 2021 03:50 IST
🔴 C Raja Mohan writes: It makes strategic and economic sense for Delhi, as the UK is one of the few nations to have laid out ambitious policy goals with an eye on the unfolding technological revolution.
Tue, Dec 14, 2021December 06, 2021 05:05 IST
🔴 C Raja Mohan writes: Great power politics puts limits on the bilateral relationship. But Delhi and Moscow have no reason to be satisfied with the poor state of their commercial ties.
Tue, Dec 07, 2021November 30, 2021 04:00 IST
🔴 C Raja Mohan writes: Beijing’s aggressive regional policies are driving many countries that were hopeful of deeper ties with China towards the US.
Wed, Dec 01, 2021November 23, 2021 04:00 IST
C Raja Mohan writes: It is trying to assert its primacy in Asia and the Indo-Pacific region while pushing out the US and India.
Wed, Nov 24, 2021November 16, 2021 03:36 IST
C Raja Mohan writes: Turkey's influence in Eurasian region is expanding. Delhi's current political divergence with Ankara only reinforces the case for a sustained dialogue between the two governments and the strategic communities.
Wed, Nov 17, 2021November 09, 2021 04:30 IST
C Raja Mohan writes: The time has come for it to begin a strategic conversation with Europe on Eurasian security. This will be a natural complement to the fledgeling engagement between India and Europe on the Indo-Pacific.
Wed, Nov 10, 2021November 07, 2021 06:15 IST
Nirupama Rao’s latest book, The Fractured Himalaya, is a lucid account of Sino-Indian relations
Sun, Nov 07, 2021November 02, 2021 03:00 IST
C Raja Mohan writes: It long deployed religious extremism as a policy tool. But giving too much space to religious and other extra-constitutional forces only weakens the state
Wed, Nov 03, 2021October 26, 2021 03:15 IST
C Raja Mohan writes: For Delhi, the current crisis in Pakistan is not a moment for schadenfreude. It should be an occasion to reflect on the long-term regional consequences
Wed, Oct 27, 2021October 19, 2021 03:25 IST
C Raja Mohan writes: The first meeting between foreign ministers of India, Israel, UAE and US suggests that Delhi is now ready to move from bilateral relations conducted in separate silos towards an integrated regional policy
Wed, Oct 20, 2021October 12, 2021 03:31 IST
C Raja Mohan writes: With its economic weight, technological strength and normative power, the EU promises to enhance India’s quest for a multipolar world, rebalanced Indo-Pacific.
Wed, Oct 13, 2021