Profile
C. Raja Mohan is currently a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. He was earlier Professor of South Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
His current research interests are India’s foreign and defence policies, Asian security, and the maritime politics of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Raja Mohan served as the Diplomatic Editor and the Washington Correspondent of The Hindu and the Strategic Affairs Editor of The Indian Express. Raja Mohan has a master’s degree in Nuclear Physics and a Ph.D. in international relations. He was a Research Associate at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, and the Indian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Raja Mohan was a member of the UN Inter-Governmental Expert Group on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, during 1991-92. He was a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington DC, during 1992-93. He led the Indian Chapter of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs during 1999-2006.
Dr. Mohan was the Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress, Washington DC during 2009-10. He held the Sir Howard Kippenberger Chair in Strategic Studies in University of Victoria in Wellington New Zealand during February-March 2011.
He is currently a member of India’s National Security Advisory Board and has served there earlier during 1998-2000 and 2004-06. He is an international affairs columnist for The Indian Express, New Delhi. Raja Mohan is a non-resident Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC. He is on the Editorial Boards of The Washington Quarterly and The American Interest.
Dr. Mohan’s recent books include Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India’s New Foreign Policy (New York: Palgrave, 2004); Impossible Allies: Nuclear India, United States and the Global Order (New Delhi: India Research Press, 2006); Power Realignments in Asia: China, India and the United States (New Delhi: Sage, 2009) (Co edited with Alyssa Ayres).
Contact: crmohan53@gmail.com
