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'.
Tue, Mar 09, 2021
Given India’s growing stakes in Afghanistan, New Delhi will take a strong interest in the ambitious new US framework and the multiple challenges that are likely to come up in its implementation.
Tue, Mar 09, 2021
Not only has the foreign policy elite been unduly suspicious of the US, it has also misjudged India’s agency in shaping the relationship.
Tue, Mar 02, 2021
We certainly don’t know if the General is being tactical or strategic. Delhi will find that out only by negotiating seriously with the Pakistan army. Yet another failure with Rawalpindi will not surprise Delhi.
Tue, Feb 23, 2021
As Taiwan becomes the world’s most dangerous flashpoint, the geopolitical consequences for Asia are real.
Tue, Feb 16, 2021
As governments push back against big tech, a new challenge presents itself — reining in the growing power of the state in the digital age.
Tue, Feb 09, 2021
India’s real challenge is the deepening domestic political divide. The inevitable extension of this divide to the diaspora has created more favourable conditions for foreign meddling.
Mon, Jan 25, 2021
World Economic Forum will meet at a time when global economy is in crisis. Delhi should contribute to the framing of new rules to govern international institutions.
Tue, Jan 19, 2021
Biden team takes charge with the recognition that America's globalist ambitions have lost much domestic political support. For Delhi, this is an opportnity to deepen ties
Tue, Jan 12, 2021
The bitter legacies of Partition leave the domestic political dynamics of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan tied together and complicate their interaction as separate sovereign entities.
Tue, Jan 05, 2021
Delhi’s attitudes have also shifted from the reactive to the proactive. That, in turn, should make India’s new stint at the UNSC more purposeful and pragmatic.
Tue, Dec 29, 2020
In Delhi, the Anglosphere is quickly dismissed as a colonial construct. Those who let India’s colonial past overwhelm its current strategic judgements, however, do great injustice to Delhi’s gains in the international system, in absolute terms as well as relative to Britain.
Tue, Dec 22, 2020
A strong coalition of Asian and European middle powers must now be an indispensable element of the geopolitics of the East. Such a coalition can’t be built overnight. But Delhi could push for a solid start in 2021.
Tue, Dec 15, 2020
Delhi needs to appreciate the value of issue-based coalitions in producing more productive outcomes in the technological arena. Such coalitions will complement India’s traditional focus on multilateralism.
Tue, Dec 08, 2020
Despite contrasting approaches, China and US share goals on environment. In underlining climate change as an important area of engagement with Biden, Delhi has signalled its readiness to deal with a new phase in the global politics of environment.
Tue, Dec 01, 2020
For now, the question is whether the South Asian states can manage the fallout from the geopolitical churn in the Middle East and seize the new opportunities that are presenting themselves.
Tue, Nov 24, 2020
The Indian establishment must discard outdated perceptions and seize the new strategic possibilities in the region.
Tue, Nov 17, 2020
It is unlikely that US President-elect will have bandwidth to weigh in on Kashmir. But Islamabad isn’t giving up.
Tue, Nov 10, 2020
What stands out from our debates on Biden policies is India’s regrettable under-investment in the study of US society, its political economy and international relations.
Tue, Nov 03, 2020
Bipartisan agreement in US for overhaul of global order could see creation of a new league of democracies, with consequences for India’s economic prosperity and technological future.
Tue, Oct 27, 2020
The 2+2 dialogue comes in the backdrop of a structural shift in great power politics and turbulence in the global economic order.
Tue, Oct 20, 2020
In using Dhaka’s impressive economic performance to attack Delhi’s, India is missing the bigger story about the strategic consequences of Bangladesh’s economic rise.
Tue, Oct 13, 2020
India’s current focus is on drawing foreign investment into domestic manufacturing; but Delhi has been unable to clinch bilateral trade deals or articulate the case for rejigging the global economic order.
Tue, Oct 06, 2020
Obsession with non-alignment diverts Delhi's policy attention away from the urgent task of rapidly expanding India's national capabilities in partnership with like-minded partners.
Tue, Sep 29, 2020
The anxiety that India is losing clout in the Subcontinent is not new. India’s relations with its neighbours will always be about carefully managing the inevitable difficulties that arise
Tue, Sep 22, 2020
In writing the new rules and reshaping the global order, India needs to strengthen its recent turn to a more dynamic coalition building.
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