C. Raja Mohan
The Indian Express Group
Monday 24 August '09
When the heads of Indian diplomatic missions gather in New Delhi this week for an annual brainstorming and policy guidance...Wednesday 19 August '09
The great game was largely about promoting, and preventing, the integration of inner Asia with the Eurasian rim lands.Wednesday
12 August '09As India and China continued their seemingly endless negotiations on the boundary dispute last week in Delhi, there was another event in faraway Cochin at the southern tip of the subcontinent.Wednesday
22 July '09As the American military surge in Afghanistan puts the Taliban on the defensive, Washington has explained the linkage between the short term and the long in the Obama administration’s Af-Pak strategy.Monday
20 July '09In doing the capital’s political circuit today, Hillary Clinton enjoys a big advantage that none of her predecessors at the US state department have had.Wednesday
15 July '09Although China is only an observer at the 15th Non-Aligned Summit this week, Beijing’s diplomatic, political and economic influence....Tuesday
14 July '09As a small contingent of the Indian troops marches down the Champs Elysees in Paris today, India owes...Wednesday
1 July '09If you haven’t had your fill of strategic triads and political quads, here is the latest offering...Monday
29 June '09Few in New Delhi might have noticed a memorandum of understanding signed by the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan during early May in Washington about regional trade and transit.Wednesday
24 June '09The visit of the US National Security Adviser, James Jones...Wednesday
17 June '09All the soaring rhetoric from Yekaterinburg on the solidarity of the second tier powers against Anglo-Saxon hegemony can’t hide one simple reality....Monday
15 June '09There is no alternative to dialogue with Pakistan. India must focus on the larger objectiveWednesday
10 June '09Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would surely have wanted a substantive first trip abroad in his second term.Thursday
4 June '09Twenty years ago this week when the student protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square ended in a violent crackdown...Wednesday
3 June '09Whatever the Western world might have to say on the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown this week...Monday
1 June '09External Affairs Minister S M Krishna's categorisation of India as a 'responsible power' has found an echo in the just-concluded Shangri La dialogue.Wednesday
27 May '09Mention ‘the Great Game’ and our gaze turns naturally towards Afghanistan and Central Asia.Monday
25 May '09It did not take too long for S M Krishna, a self-confessed rookie on diplomatic front, to lay out his worldview over the weekend.Friday
22 May '09Agenda for Dr Singh’s new term: the long overdue strategic outreach to the Muslim worldFriday
8 May '09It is not often that a nation launches a major military offensive on its own territory at the behest of another.Wednesday
6 May '09Obama mustn’t buy stories of Pakistani collapse. That plays into the army’s handsThursday
30 April '09All the gloom and doom in Western media about Pak has begun to translate into faster cash-flow from Washington to Islamabad and with far fewer conditions.Wednesday
29 April '09After Beijing showed off its maritime muscle last week, the stage is now set for a competitive modernisation of naval power in Asia.Wednesday
22 April '09For some years now there has been an open debate within the strategic community on the benefits and costs of acquiring carriers.Friday
17 April '09As donors meet in Tokyo, don’t expect too many stern conditions on Islamabad
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