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C. Raja Mohan: India's Middle East Strategy
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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.
- “Lessons on navigating the evolving geopolitics in the Middle East,” The Indian Express, July 19, 2022.
- C Raja Mohan, “India in the Middle East: From Rigid Ideology to Flexible Pragmatism,” Reichman University, March 24, 2022.
- C Raja Mohan, “New India Finds an Old Role in a Changing Middle East,” Foreign Policy, October 29, 2021.
- Transcript, "India's Middle East Strategy," CSIS, December 13, 2022.
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Chief of Staff, Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department; and Senior Fellow, Middle East Program
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Lubna Yousef
Former Research Associate, Middle East Program