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Jan 19, 2025 | 
indianexpress.com | C. Raja Mohan
As he takes charge of the White House for a second time Monday, Donald Trump has a more sweeping electoral mandate, greater political legitimacy, and more ambitious plans to govern America – and rearrange the world than in 2017 when he was sworn in for the first time.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
indianexpress.com | C. Raja Mohan
The policy instrument for this has been the initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) that was unveiled by Sullivan and the Indian National Security Adviser, Ajit Doval, in January 2023. The iCET has involved massive and detailed negotiations on a range of complicated issues and several difficult bureaucracies in Delhi and Washington. It will endure as an important legacy of the Biden years for India-US relations. The iCET is at the very heart of Biden’s larger strategy.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Edward Alden |Elisabeth Braw |Steven Cook |James Crabtree |Agathe Demarais |Zongyuan Liu | +1 more
Geopolitics Economics United States China Europe Elisabeth Braw Steven A. Cook Agathe Demarais C. Raja Mohan Zongyuan Zoe Liu At the start of each year, Foreign Policy asks some of our columnists for the one key issue they’ll be watching in the year ahead.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | C. Raja Mohan
As finance minister during 1991-96, Manmohan Singh laid the foundation for India’s economic transformation and the consequent rise on the global stage. Less appreciated is his decade-long tenure as prime minister, from 2004 to 2014, which helped develop a matching foreign policy strategy through regional peace and a global partnership with the United States.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | C. Raja Mohan
Then, as now, there was little internal criticism of the government’s refusal to condemn Saddam Hussein’s unacceptable aggression by India’s political class or the foreign policy elite. Many arguments were offered to suggest that Saddam Hussein was “provoked” or “trapped” into invading Kuwait — somewhat similar to the argument that Brezhnev had no option but to send troops to Afghanistan and Putin was provoked to attack Ukraine.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | C. Raja Mohan
One of the most significant developments in recent years has been the formation of the so-called “alliance without limits” between Moscow and Beijing. Announced by Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in February 2022, just before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this alliance emphasises their commitment to strategic cooperation across security, economic, and political domains, without restrictions on their collaboration.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | C. Raja Mohan
On BRICS and the discussion of “de-dollarisation”, Trump is making preemptive threats against a move that is yet to materialise. His trademark aggressive stance essentially tells the BRICS countries, “Don’t even think about it.” Sceptics have long maintained that BRICS’ rhetoric about de-dollarisation exceeds its actual financial capabilities and their commitment to collective action. The BRICS nations lack unity in their goal to reduce the dollar’s dominance in the global financial system.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | C. Raja Mohan
Two recent defence agreements, highlighted during Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to a Southeast Asian defence ministerial forum in Laos, point to the many untapped possibilities for developing India’s security cooperation with like-minded Asian countries. Building defence networks with Asian friends is an urgent imperative for India amid China’s growing military capabilities and the urgent need for modernisation of India’s defence industrial base.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | C. Raja Mohan
By explicitly rejecting these lofty ideals and abandoning the claim that America has a special responsibility to lead the world, Trump frees himself and his administration from past burdens. This approach resonates with large sections of Trump’s support base who reject “globalism” and embrace the idea of “America First.” The strong opposition to globalism also underpins resistance to wars in distant lands.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | C. Raja Mohan
This week and next, a series of high-profile multilateral summits are set to unfold — the climate change conference in Azerbaijan, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Peru, and the G20 summit in Brazil. These gatherings, however, take place under the shadow of Donald Trump’s recent re-election as US President. Already under strain over the last decade, multilateral institutions now face even greater challenges.
