India and Southeast Asian countries share a strong civilisational connect. India’s relationship with Southeast Asia is continued to be shaped by the changing geo-political environment. India’s engagement with the Southeast Asia is deeply rooted in culture, commerce and connectivity. Both highly value friendship and mutual trust. The relationship between them has truly become multidimensional and has scored an impressive performance over time at bilateral and regional levels.
Based on a conference organised by the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) on 20-21 July 2022 to commemorate the thirty years of the ASEAN-India relations, this book sheds light on changing profile of the India-Southeast Asia relations and underlines the desire of the Southeast Asian countries and India to diversify and further strengthen the relations in the challenging times. This book is an important companion for the policymakers, academia, students of international relations and economics, diplomats and the general readership as well.
Prabir De and Temjenmeren Ao (Eds.)
Prabir De is a Professor at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi. He has over three and half decades of full-time research and teaching experiences in India and abroad. He did his Masters in economics from Calcutta University and PhD in economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He works in the field of international economics and has research interests in international trade and development. He has been conducting policy research for the Government of India and several national and international organisations. He has contributed several research papers in international journals and written books on trade and development.
Temjenmeren Ao is Associate Fellow in the Southeast Asia & Oceania Centre at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. Earlier he was a Research Fellow on Southeast Asia at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi. Prior to which he worked as an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS), New Delhi. His area of interests includes the study on international economics, India’s foreign relations in the contemporary political, economic and security environment and issues of dual-use technology transfers. He completed his Masters in economics from the Centre for Economics Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, and holds a PhD in international relations from School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Tables and Figures
List of Contributor
1. Introduction
Prabir De and Temjenmeren Ao
2. Interactions Inscribed—South Asia and Southeast Asia: Testimonies of Scripts and Languages (till c. 1300 CE)
Suchandra Ghosh
3. Project Temple Run: Development of Hindu-Buddhist Pilgrimage Circuits in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Joefe B. Santarita
4. Evolving Security Dynamics in Southeast Asia and India-Southeast Asia Relations
M. Mayilvaganan
5. Rising Security Uncertainty in Indo-Pacific and the Role of Multilateral Mechanisms
Vo Xuan Vinh
6. Three Decades of India’s ‘Eastward March’: China’s Perceptions and Responses
Bali Deepak
7. India and Southeast Asia: Building Regional Consensus for Greater Cooperation
Temjenmeren Ao
8. ASEAN-India Economic Cooperation
Gurjit Singh
9. India-ASEAN Relations and the Future of Regional Human Security
Jirayudh Sinthuphan
10. Enhancing ASEAN-India Digital Connectivity: Pathway to Shared Prosperity
Sineenat Sermcheep
11. Unlocking the Potential Benefits of ASEAN-India E-commerce
Sithanonxay Suvannaphakdy
12. India’s Development Cooperation in Southeast Asia: An Overview
Uma Purushothaman
13. Development Cooperation and Partnership: India’s Experience with Select ASEAN Countries
Sampa Kundu
14. Lao PDR–India Development Partnership
Somdeth Bodhisane
15. Charting the New Agenda of ASEAN-India Cooperation
Prabir De and Tuhinsubhra Giri
Annexure
Summary of the Conference
Keynote Address
Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
Remarks
Vijay Thakur Singh
Remarks
C Raja Mohan
Remarks
Simon Wong Wie Kuen
Agenda
Index
Political Science
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