C. Raja Mohan is Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, and the consulting editor on foreign affairs for 'The Indian Express'. Before his association with The Indian Express began in 2004, Raja Mohan worked for The Hindu as its Washington correspondent and Strategic Affairs Editor. He was a distinguished fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. In his academic avatar, Raja Mohan has been professor of South Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. As a think tanker, he worked at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses and Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. He is on the editorial board of various international affairs journals and is affiliated with the Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore; the Lowy Institute, Sydney; and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC. He is the author, most recently, of Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific.
Will foreign policy, national security issues play a decisive role in 2019 general elections?
The election is a good opportunity for the BJP and Congress to debate the changing international situation, India’s response.
Will foreign policy and national security issues play a decisive role in the upcoming general elections? Not quite. India’s recent bombing of a terror training camp at Balakot in Pakistan last month, one of a piece with the “surgical strikes” across the Line of Control in Kashmir in September 2016, have certainly generated much heat on the eve of the elections. For the BJP, it symbolises Delhi’s tough new approach to cross-border terrorism. The Congress, of course, wants to run down an important step in the evolution of India’s effort to cope with the constraint imposed by the danger of nuclear escalation.
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