Episode 2

C. Raja Mohan is Senior Fellow with the Asia Society Policy Institute in New Delhi, India — a division of the Asia Society India Centre, Mumbai. He is a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore, and was previously the Director of ISAS. Mohan was the founding director of Carnegie India in Delhi, the sixth international center of Carnegie Endowment for Peace. Mohan was a Professor of South Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. He served on India’s National Security Advisory Board. Mohan has published widely on India’s foreign and security policies, Asian geopolitics, and the global governance of advanced technologies. Mohan co-authored the Adelphi Book, The New Asian Geopolitics: Military Power and Regional Order published by the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London in 2021. He is a columnist for Foreign Policy and the Indian Express.

In this episode of the STATE OF ASIA podcast, he talks about the challenges to find balance among multiple great powers in Asia, about why the effect of India's foreign policy seems to lag expectations, and on why criticism from Western countries on the state of India's democracy is misplaced.

Hear C. Raja Mohan speak live, in person, at the STATE OF ASIA conference on November 10, 2022, in Zurich, Switzerland, where he will be joined by many others of our trusted experts. For more details, the full conference speaker line-up, and information on how to get tickets, click here.

He will also deliver the inaugural STATE OF ASIA Address on November 9, 2022, in Zurich, Switzerland. Get tickets here.

STATE OF ASIA podcast

episode 2 – published September 19, 2022

Host: Nico Luchsinger, Executive Director, Asia Society Switzerland
Producer: Remko Tanis, Programs and Editorial Manager, Asia Society Switzerland