Singapore professor Raja Mohan appointed as Kissinger scholar

At the US library of congress


Oct 06, 2009

Prof. C. Raja Mohan of South Asian studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore has been appointed by James H. Billington, Librarian of US Congress as the Henry Alfred Kissinger Scholar in Foreign Policy and International Relations in the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.

Prof. Mohan, a leading Indian foreign-policy analyst, will research the evolution of India's foreign policy strategy and its growing security cooperation with the United States. He is the ninth scholar to occupy the Kissinger chair. The position was created in 2000 to honor Henery Kissinger former secretary of state and to emphasize the importance of foreign affairs. The Kissinger Chair offers outstanding thinkers and practitioners a unique opportunity to pursue advanced research in the largest and most international collection of library materials in the world.

Mohan has served in the past as the strategic-affairs editor and Washington correspondent for The Hindu. He is a contributing editor for The Indian Express, New Delhi. He was professor of South Asian studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and was also a senior fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi. His published works include "Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India's Foreign Policy" (2004) and "Impossible Allies: Nuclear India, United States and the Global Order" (2006).


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