C. Raja Mohan
C. Raja Mohan is Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, and contributing editor on foreign affairs for 'The Indian Express'.
Wed, Dec 01, 2021
🔴 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, Nov 24, 2021
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 17, 2021
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 10, 2021
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.
Sun, Nov 07, 2021
Nirupama Rao’s latest book, The Fractured Himalaya, is a lucid account of Sino-Indian relations
Wed, Nov 03, 2021
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, Oct 27, 2021
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 20, 2021
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 13, 2021
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 06, 2021
C Raja Mohan writes: Delhi should take a hard look at the emerging challenges to the current space order and its interests on the moon, and develop strategies to pursue them through a national lunar mission.
Wed, Sep 29, 2021
C Raja Mohan writes: With China’s emergence as a major space power, there is a new urgency for democratic powers to come together to secure their national interests as well as promote sustainable order in the skies above.
Wed, Sep 22, 2021
C Raja Mohan writes: India’s interests lie in deeper strategic cooperation with France and Europe as well as the Quad and the Anglosphere.
Tue, Sep 21, 2021
A defence deal among Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom that seeks to check China in the Pacific has enraged France, which has lost a lucrative submarine contract with Australia. Why are democratic allies with the same overall objectives undercutting each other?
Wed, Sep 15, 2021
C Raja Mohan writes: Don’t hold your breath. For all the political hype, SCO has failed to deepen regional cooperation in Central Asia.
Mon, Sep 13, 2021
C. Raja Mohan writes: All nations, including liberal democracies, have curtailed individual liberty by offering greater security against terrorism.
Wed, Sep 08, 2021
C Raja Mohan writes: The strategy of using violent religious extremism to control Afghanistan over the last five decades has also deeply affected Pakistan's polity, which is now under the shadow of the Taliban's pre-modern ideology.
Tue, Aug 31, 2021
C Raja Mohan writes: While India can hope for the best, it would also be good to find out if the new leadership in Kabul means what it says and whether it will be able to withstand Pakistan’s pressure.
Wed, Aug 25, 2021
C Raja Mohan writes: Strategic patience coupled with political empathy for Afghan people, and an active engagement will continue to keep Delhi relevant in Kabul's internal and external evolution.
Wed, Aug 18, 2021
C Raja Mohan writes: For a patient, open-minded and active India, there will be no dearth of balancing opportunities in Afghanistan.
Tue, Aug 10, 2021
C Raja Mohan writes: A decade later, it is quite clear, Qatar’s “peace project” in Afghanistan was about legitimising the Taliban at expense of the current political order in Afghanistan.
Tue, Aug 03, 2021
C. Raja Mohan writes: Turkish president Erdogan’s overweening ambitions, alienation of Israel and moderate Arabs, growing conflict with Greece and alignment with Pakistan presents India with opportunity to widen outreach to west of the Subcontinent.
Tue, Jul 27, 2021
C Raja Mohan writes: Delhi and Washington have an expansive new agenda for discussion which includes not only democracy and human rights, but also Afghanistan, the Indo-Pacific region, reform of global economic institutions, climate change and vaccine diplomacy
Tue, Jul 20, 2021
Neither the prospect of mining Afghanistan’s natural resources nor the vanity of being the newest superpower will compel China to rush into the Afghan vacuum.
Wed, Jul 14, 2021
C Raja Mohan writes: The quiet satisfaction in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and Rawalpindi is tinged by worries about the longer-term implications of Washington's retreat from Afganistan. If India is patient, opportunities could open up.
Tue, Jul 06, 2021
C Raja Mohan writes: With Ankara set to play a major role in Afghanistan, Delhi needs to vigorously challenge Turkey’s positions where it must, and, at the same time, prepare for a more intensive bilateral engagement.
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