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.

January 11, 2005 00:00 IST
The quality of mercy, Shakespeare wrote, is not strained. It is twice blessed. He went on: “It blesseth him that gives, and him that ta...
Tue, Jan 11, 2005
January 07, 2005 01:05 IST
The appointment of M K Narayanan as the interim National Security Adviser brings the recent story of India’s national security manageme...
Fri, Jan 07, 2005
January 04, 2005 01:57 IST
Ambling up to him at a gathering in the Capital last night, one quickly sensed that National Security Adviser J.N. Dixit was about to get in...
Tue, Jan 04, 2005
January 03, 2005 01:36 IST
Besides drawing legions of armed forces and triggering high-profile global diplomacy, the tsunami strike in the Indian Ocean has reinforced ...
Mon, Jan 03, 2005
December 31, 2004 02:21 IST
Responding to the extraordinary humanitarian challenge arising from Sunday’s tsunami strike, India and the United States have begun to ...
Fri, Dec 31, 2004
December 30, 2004 02:34 IST
That the Indian Navy could join the relief operations in Sri Lanka that bore the brunt of the tsunami strike is a reflection of the positive...
Thu, Dec 30, 2004
December 29, 2004 01:50 IST
AS India considers long-term options on disaster management, in the wake of the terrible tsunami strike, one major imperative stands out...
Wed, Dec 29, 2004
December 28, 2004 02:32 IST
The credit that former prime minister A.B. Vajpayee reportedly gave this week to his predecessor P.V. Narasimha Rao for building India’...
Tue, Dec 28, 2004
December 28, 2004 00:00 IST
As he packs his bags for the first foreign policy venture in the new year — the annual summit of the South Asian nations in Dhaka —...
Tue, Dec 28, 2004
December 21, 2004 01:55 IST
China’s massive programme to build roads all along the border in Tibet and into the sub-continent has finally woken up India and Bhutan...
Tue, Dec 21, 2004
December 15, 2004 02:03 IST
Dispelling political concerns all around and overcoming many procedural difficulties, a rare conversation among Indians, Pakistanis and Kash...
Wed, Dec 15, 2004
December 14, 2004 00:00 IST
As India and Pakistan start talks on nuclear and conventional military confidence-building measures this week in Islamabad, part of the atte...
Tue, Dec 14, 2004
December 13, 2004 01:35 IST
When the word appeared in Pakistani media earlier this month that the National Security Adviser J.N. Dixit was all set to meet his Pakistani...
Mon, Dec 13, 2004
December 02, 2004 01:23 IST
It is not often that a government advertisement stops the traffic. ‘‘Reviving the spirit of Punjab, Punjabi, and Punjabiyat,’...
Thu, Dec 02, 2004
November 30, 2004 02:38 IST
The meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday in Vientiane should be an occasion to celebrate ...
Tue, Nov 30, 2004
November 30, 2004 00:00 IST
Does the United Nations really matter when it comes to war and peace in the 21st century? To ask this question when long promised reform of ...
Tue, Nov 30, 2004
November 25, 2004 02:34 IST
The first crisis in the peace process since the composite dialogue began last June has been averted by renewing reassurances that both sides...
Thu, Nov 25, 2004
November 22, 2004 02:16 IST
Pakistan hopes that political leaders from Jammu and Kashmir would be among the first travellers hopping on to a proposed bus service across...
Mon, Nov 22, 2004
November 21, 2004 01:43 IST
Amid a new hiccup in the peace process that threatens to become a seizure, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf today reminded India of its c...
Sun, Nov 21, 2004
November 20, 2004 01:12 IST
The Indo-Pak peace process has hit the first roadblock with Pak President General Pervez Musharraf reacting sharply to the statements of Pri...
Sat, Nov 20, 2004
November 17, 2004 02:06 IST
The Indian foreign policy establishment is all smiles at the appointment of US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as the next Secret...
Wed, Nov 17, 2004
November 16, 2004 01:51 IST
As India and China intensify their search for a final settlement of their long-standing boundary dispute, they will soon have to come up wit...
Tue, Nov 16, 2004
November 16, 2004 00:00 IST
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh heads to Srinagar this week and prepares to experiment with unconventional ideas on Jammu and Kashmir, here...
Tue, Nov 16, 2004
November 15, 2004 01:10 IST
Having unilaterally announced the decision to meet the long-standing demand from Pakistan for a reduction of Indian troops in Jammu and Kash...
Mon, Nov 15, 2004
November 04, 2004 03:09 IST
The old order in America is dissolving and a new one has begun to emerge. That’s the message from the bitterly fought Presidential poll...
Thu, Nov 04, 2004





