C. Raja Mohan: India's Middle East Strategy

Published: Dec. 13, 2022, 9:51 p.m.

This week on Babel, Jon speaks with C. Raja Mohan, a senior fellow at the Asia Policy Institute who has been writing about Indian foreign policy for decades. They talk about India's strategy in the Middle East and how it's changed under Prime Minister Modi, how Indian policymakers think about the region, and potential areas for cooperation between India and its regional partners. Then, Jon continues the conversation with Will Todman and Lubna Yousef about how the region sees India and what a more active India in the Middle East would mean for the United States.\xa0\n\n\u201cLessons on navigating the evolving geopolitics in the Middle East,\u201d The Indian Express, July 19, 2022.\n\nC Raja Mohan, \u201cIndia in the Middle East: From Rigid Ideology to Flexible Pragmatism,\u201d Reichman University, March 24, 2022.\xa0\n\nC Raja Mohan, \u201cNew India Finds an Old Role in a Changing Middle East,\u201d Foreign Policy, October 29, 2021.\xa0\n\nTranscript, "India's Middle East Strategy," CSIS, December 13, 2022.