Introduction
Professor Raja Mohan was the Director of ISAS from May 2018 to December 2021. He was Professor of South Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Motwani Jadeja Institute of American Studies, Jindal Global University, Delhi. He also holds the Korea Foundation Chair on Asian Geopolitics at the Council for Strategic and Defence Studies, Delhi.
Professor Raja Mohan is one of India’s leading commentators on India’s foreign policy. He has been associated with many think tanks in New Delhi, including the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, the Centre for Policy Research and the Observer Research Foundation. He was also the founding director of Carnegie India, New Delhi – the sixth international centre of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC. Professor Raja Mohan set up the Delhi chapter of the Asia Society Policy Institute in 2022. He was the Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in International Affairs at the United States Library of Congress, Washington DC, from 2009 to 2010. He served on India’s National Security Advisory Board. He led the Indian Chapter of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from 1999 to 2006.
Professor Raja Mohan heads the Research Advisory Council of the Institute of South Asian Studies at the South Asia University, Delhi. He writes a regular column for The Indian Express and the Foreign Policy magazine. He chairs the editorial board of the magazine, India’s World. He is on the editorial boards of several Indian and international journals on world politics.
Professor Raja Mohan has a Masters’ degree in nuclear physics and a PhD in international relations. Among his recent books are Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific (2013); Modi’s World: Expanding India’s Sphere of Influence (2015); Asia’s New Geopolitics: Military Power and Regional Order (2021) and India and the Rebalancing of Asia (2025).
Areas of Interest and Expertise
- India’s Foreign Policy
- South Asian Geopolitics
- Asian Security
- Great Power Relations
- International Politics of Technology
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crmohan53@gmail.com |
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Distinguished Professor, Motwani Jadeja Institute of American Studies, Jindal Global University, Delhi; and Former Director, ISAS |
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Email : |
crmohan53@gmail.com |
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Distinguished Professor, Motwani Jadeja Institute of American Studies, Jindal Global University, Delhi; and Former Director, ISAS |
CONTRIBUTIONS
BOOKS
15 January 2021
India 2020: Trump, Biden and India
1 January 2021
China’s Digital Expansion and India
1 January 2021
Putting Sovereignty Back in Global Order: An Indian View
15 September 2020
India’s Naval Strategy and Asian Security
19 November 2015
Modi’s India: Towards a Bolder International Engagement
1 February 2015
Debating China’s ‘Peaceful Rise
14 August 2014
India-Pakistan: Ten Questions on Peace Process
28 July 2014