1st Edition
India, South Korea and the ASEAN Middle Power Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific
With the U.S.-China geostrategic competition heating up, the time is opportune for South Korea, ASEAN, and India to draw on their middle power status to bolster regional security and economic cooperation to protect their interests from any potential superpower fallout. This book investigates the diverse possibilities for collaboration within the India-ASEAN-ROK trilateral framework. It explores the various avenues of cooperation that this new trilateral initiative can benefit from, ranging from security, economic, institutional platforms, and technology to sustainable development and climate change. The book provides regional perspectives on India, ASEAN, and ROK to show the growing appetite in these countries for such trilateral initiatives and to forecast the challenges that may arise.
Lucid and topical, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of political science, international relations, diplomacy, strategic studies, Southeast Asian studies, East Asia, and South Asian studies. It will also be of use to think tanks and policy makers interested in Indo-Pacific, India-ASEAN, and India-ROK issues.
Introduction
Harsh Pant and Premesha Saha
Setting the Context: Middle Power Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific: The Case for an India-Korea-ASEAN Trilateral Cooperation
Harsh Pant and Premesha Saha
Section 1: The Concept of Middle Powers and middle power diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific
Chapter 1: South Korea: An Emerging Middle Power in the Indo-Pacific
Rajiv Kumar
Chapter 2: India’s Indo-Pacific Reorientation
Dhruva Jaishankar
Chapter 3: Indonesia in and with ASEAN: “Power” before “Middle Power”
Andrew Mantong
Section 2: Politics and diplomacy
Chapter 4: Emerging Strategic Triangle: Assessing India-ASEAN-South Korea Relations
Shankari Sundararaman
Chapter 5: Existing Multilateral Platforms as a Facilitator for India-ASEAN-ROK Cooperation: A ROK Perspective
Wondeuk Cho
Section 3: Defense and security (maritime, defense diplomacy, engagement, industry collaboration; cyber security and governance)
Chapter 6: Defense Cooperation Between India, Indonesia and ROK
Amarulla Octavian
Chapter 7: Emerging Contours of Indo-Pacific Security and Prospects for India-South Korea-ASEAN Cooperation
GVC Naidu
Chapter 8: India-ASEAN-ROK Trilateral Defense and Security Cooperation: ROK Perspective
Tae-Hyung Kim
Section 4: Sustainable development, environment and connectivity (Infrastructure development and connectivity; marine environmental, Blue Economy; climate change)
Chapter 9: Sustainability, Connectivity, Environment: A Case for India-ASEAN-ROK Cooperation
Abhijit Singh and Anasua Basu
Chapter 10: Prospect for India-ASEAN-ROK Cooperation on Maritime Connectivity, Digital Deal and Green Policy: A View from Malaysia
Tharishini Krishnan
Chapter 11: Climate Diplomacy and Clean Energy Transition of Republic of Korea and Future Partnership with India
Saehee Jeong and Sunwoo (Vivian) Lee
Chapter 12: Dealing With Disasters: Opportunities For Asean-Rok-India Cooperation In Disaster Management And Mitigation
Yanitha Meena
Section 5: Economic cooperation, technology and trade (investments, favourable trading mechanism and environment, supply chain network)
Chapter 13: 'India-ASEAN-ROK: Economic cooperation, trade and investment, supply chain networks- Korean perspective'.
Choi Yoon-jung
Chapter 14: India-ROK- ASEAN Economic Cooperation in Trade: An Indian perspective
Nilanjan Ghosh and Abhijit Mukhopadhay
Chapter 15: ASEAN-ROK-India: Leveraging the New Southern Policy for Triangular Cooperation
Nurliana Kamaruddin and Jan Vincent GALAS
Chapter 16: Global Competition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Potential for Collaboration Between South Korea and India
JI Yeong-Jung
Index
Biography
Harsh V Pant, Professor of International Relations, King's College London, UK and Vice President for Studies at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India.
Premesha Saha, Fellow, Indo-Pacific, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India.
