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, Apr 13, 2021
Delhi has successfully managed the changing dynamics between the great powers, and is now in an even better position to do so thanks to the size of the Indian economy.
Tue, Apr 06, 2021
A pragmatic engagement with NATO must be an important part of India’s new European orientation, especially amidst the continent’s search for a new role in the Indo-Pacific.
Wed, Mar 31, 2021
General Javed Bajwa’s speech is a recognition of two disconcerting facts—Pakistan’s longstanding neglect of geoeconomics and the steady erosion of its geopolitical significance in the 21st century.
Tue, Mar 23, 2021
Political stability and policy continuity have helped Delhi and Dhaka deepen bilateral ties over the last decade. In contrast, political cycles in Delhi and Islamabad have rarely been in sync.
Tue, Mar 16, 2021
Beijing has emerged as the biggest challenge to New Delhi, and the US is increasingly becoming the part of the answer. India’s membership of the Quad is a response to such geopolitics.
Thu, Mar 11, 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.