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Abhijnan Rej
Abhijnan Rej was Security & Defense Editor at The Diplomat and Director of Research at Diplomat Risk Intelligence.
His primary areas of interest are Southern Asian security, Indian defense and foreign policies, emerging technologies and military strategy.
Rej’s work has appeared in The Washington Quarterly, the US Army War College’s online journal War Room, War on the Rocks, the Lowy Institute’s Interpreter, National Interest (online), Global Policy (online), Wired (online), Journal of Physics: A, and Contemporary Mathematics, along with numerous think-tank occasional papers, policy briefs, and book chapters. He was previously Senior Fellow, Strategic Studies, at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. Rej also has significant work experience as a quantitative researcher in academia and the corporate sector.
He has written for virtually all major Indian English-language media outlets, and has been quoted by the Economist, Reuters, Voice of America, CNBC, The Nation, The Australian, China Global Television Network, and Dawn, among others.
Twitter: @AbhijnanRej

January 16, 2021
India and Nepal Hold Joint Meeting Amid Improvement in Ties
By Abhijnan Rej

January 16, 2021
US Justice Department Pushes Ahead With Counter China Plan
By Abhijnan Rej

January 14, 2021
India Develops Indigenous 9 MM Machine Pistol
By Abhijnan Rej

January 14, 2021
Russia’s Behemoth ‘Hunter’ Drone Destroys Ground Target in Test
By Abhijnan Rej

January 14, 2021
The US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific: 3 Curiosities
By Abhijnan Rej

January 13, 2021
India and Indonesia Push Ahead with Defense Relationship
By Abhijnan Rej

January 12, 2021
Grand Gambits: On Empire and Geopolitics in the Asia-Pacific
By Abhijnan Rej

January 11, 2021
Iran Toughens Rhetoric as Biden Looks to Salvage Nuclear Talks
By Abhijnan Rej

January 11, 2021
India’s BJP Members Voice Concern After Trump is ‘Deplatformed’
By Abhijnan Rej

January 09, 2021
Pompeo Approves New State Department Tech Bureau
By Abhijnan Rej

January 09, 2021
France and India Hold Strategic Dialogue
By Abhijnan Rej
