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.
April 01,2010 03:54:00 AM
Recruitment,corruption,spending: the new army chiefs full plate....
Thu, Apr 01, 2010April 01,2010 03:12:58 AM
Thursdays talks on Asian security between the Foreign Office and a team of senior officials from the State Department marks a major expansion of the strategic conversation between India and the United States....
Thu, Apr 01, 2010March 31,2010 02:05:34 AM
A fortnightly column on the high politics of the Af-Pak region,the fulcrum of global power play in Indias neighbourhood....
Wed, Mar 31, 2010March 27,2010 22:26:17 PM
A much-needed assessment of Nehru as a strategic thinker is relevant to Indias past and present....
Sat, Mar 27, 2010March 24,2010 02:30:57 AM
While the leadership of Pakistans security establishment is in Washington this week for a strategic dialogue,Afghan President Hamid Karzai has traveled to Beijing to seek Chinese...
Wed, Mar 24, 2010March 23,2010 01:42:39 AM
As General Ashfaq Kayani arrives in Washington this week to lead what has been billed as a comprehensive strategic dialogue with the United States...
Tue, Mar 23, 2010March 17,2010 01:46:07 AM
Amidst the approaching endgame in Afghanistan,Pakistans diplomacy is in overdrive. It is being led by none other than Gen. Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani...
Wed, Mar 17, 2010March 11,2010 01:54:58 AM
India needs an expanded Russian role in Indian Ocean and eastern Asia....
Thu, Mar 11, 2010March 10,2010 01:36:51 AM
In a week of tragic Tibet anniversaries the Dalai Lamas failed 1959 uprising and flight to India and the Lhasa riots two years ago Beijing would want to make sure there are no surprises of any kind.
Wed, Mar 10, 2010March 04,2010 23:43:22 PM
In joining King Abdullah to ask that Tehran come clean on its nuclear weapons programme,Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may have positioned India to play a new role in stabilising the balance of power between Saudi Arabia and Iran....
Thu, Mar 04, 2010February 25,2010 02:42:38 AM
As the Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries sit down across the table in New Delhis Hyderabad House today,they will not miss an irony that...
Thu, Feb 25, 2010February 17,2010 02:23:50 AM
As US President Barack Obama meets the exiled Tibetan leader,the Dalai Lama,this week in Washington,Beijing will certainly turn up the volume and tone of its protests.
Wed, Feb 17, 2010February 12,2010 18:02:54 PM
Focused as it is on the impending talks with Pakistan,Delhi should not lose sight of the unfolding power play in the Gulf.
Fri, Feb 12, 2010February 10,2010 02:02:37 AM
The original idea behind the American military surge was to notch up a few victories on the ground,regain control of critical districts...
Wed, Feb 10, 2010February 03,2010 22:31:31 PM
Shen Dingli,a professor from Shanghais Fudan University and a specialist on American studies,has an impeccable academic reputation...
Wed, Feb 03, 2010February 03,2010 14:58:52 PM
At a rare press conference this week in Rawalpindi,Pak Army Chief has offered to train the Afghan National Army.
Wed, Feb 03, 2010February 01,2010 02:06:39 AM
India,Pashtuns and Pakistan: a time for trilateralism
Mon, Feb 01, 2010January 27,2010 03:00:45 AM
Talibans gains Two international conferences on Afghanistan this week Mondays conclave in Istanbul and Thursdays gathering in London highlight the local,regional and international political respect that the Taliban has wrested in recent months. That the world is ready to accept the Taliban as part of any future political arrangement in Afghanistan is underscored […]
Wed, Jan 27, 2010January 25,2010 03:27:32 AM
South Korea is a perfect partner for India in rebalancing Asia....
Mon, Jan 25, 2010January 18,2010 16:55:13 PM
Holbrooke said Washington would certainly welcome a political thaw between India and Pakistan.
Mon, Jan 18, 2010January 13,2010 02:47:08 AM
Three years after it surprised the world with the test of an anti-satellite weapon,China this week announced the successful shooting down of one missile with another.
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
January 11,2010 23:26:13 PM
We don't have to agree with Shashi Tharoor,the Minister of State for External Affairs,to argue that the Congress party and India could actually benefit from a genuine debate on the foreign policy of Jawaharlal Nehru.
Mon, Jan 11, 2010January 07,2010 01:55:40 AM
As Delhi prepares to receive the prime minister of Bangladesh,Sheikh Hasina,next week,a big moment is at hand for one of...
Thu, Jan 07, 2010January 06,2010 02:24:03 AM
Thanks to George W. Bushs failed gamble in 2003 on ousting Saddam Hussein to promote democracy in Iraq,the idea of...
Wed, Jan 06, 2010January 04,2010 16:59:39 PM
China has put the world on notice that it is considering the acquisition of a naval base in the Arabian Sea.
Mon, Jan 04, 2010



