C. Raja Mohan is Director, Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. Earlier, he was a Professor of South Asian Studies at JNU and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. Professor Mohan has been associated with several think tanks in New Delhi, including the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses and Observer Research Foundation and was the founding director of Carnegie India, New Delhi. Professor Mohan was the Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in International Affairs at the United States Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (2009–2010) and served on India’s National Security Advisory Board. Professor Mohan has a Master’s degree in nuclear physics and a Ph. D., in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Among his recent books are Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific (2013) and Modi’s World: Expanding India’s Sphere of Influence (2015).