C. Raja Mohan is a Distinguished Professor at the Motwani Jadeja Institute for American Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi. He is also a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) at the National University of Singapore and was previously the Director of ISAS. Mohan was the founding director of Carnegie India, the sixth international centre of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He also set up the Asia Society Policy Institute branch in New Delhi. He was associated with several Indian think tanks, including the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, the Observer Research Foundation and the Centre for Policy Research. Mohan was a Professor of South Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. He served on India's National Security Advisory Board. Mohan was the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center at the US Library of Congress in 2009-10. He convened the India chapter of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from 1995 to 2005. Mohan has published widely on India's foreign and security policies, Asian geopolitics and the global governance of advanced technologies. He is the co-author of the IISS Adelphi book, Asia's New Geopolitics: Military Power and Regional Order, published in 2021. He is a columnist for Foreign Policy and the Indian Express.

Contents

Author

Acknowledgements

Map of India and the Indo-Pacific region

Introduction

Chapter One: Great transitions

Introduction

India at the centre

The centre does not hold

Restoring the India centre

Chapter Two: The China challenge

Introduction

Structural divergence

Border dispute

South Asia

Indian Ocean

Multilateral arena

Chapter Three: The US partnership

Introduction

Defence cooperation

Pakistan

The Indo-Pacific

The Quad

Trump 2.0

Chapter Four: Regional dynamics

Introduction

Australia and Japan

Russia

The United Kingdom and Europe

South Asia

Southeast Asia

Asian reset

Chapter Five: India as the balancer

Introduction

Ideological balance

Economic rebalance

Technological rebalance

Military rebalance

Conclusion: In Asia and of Asia

Introduction

Assertive China, disruptive America

The great triangle

Alliances, autonomy and burden-sharing

India's Asian challenges

Appendix

Notes

Index