1st Edition
India, South Korea and the ASEAN Middle Power Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific
Introduction
Harsh V Pant and Premesha Saha
Setting the Context: Middle Power Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific: The Case for an India-Korea-ASEAN Trilateral Cooperation
Harsh V Pant and Premesha Saha
SECTION I: The Concept of Middle Powers and Middle Power Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific
1 South Korea: An Emerging Middle Power in the Indo-Pacific
Rajiv Kumar
2 India’s Indo-Pacific Reorientation
Dhruva Jaishankar
3 Indonesia in and with ASEAN: “Power” before “Middle Power”
Andrew W. Mantong
SECTION 2: Politics and Diplomacy
4 An Emerging Strategic Triangle: Assessing India-ASEAN-South Korea Relations
Shankari Sundararaman
5 Existing Multilateral Platforms as a Facilitator for India-ASEAN-ROK Cooperation: A ROK Perspective
Wondeuk Cho
SECTION 3: Defense and Security
6 Defense Cooperation between India, Indonesia, and ROK
Amarulla Octavian
7 Emerging Contours of Indo-Pacific Security and Prospects for India-South Korea-ASEAN Cooperation
G.V.C. Naidu
8 India-ASEAN-ROK Trilateral Defense and Security Cooperation: ROK Perspective
Tae-Hyung Kim
SECTION 4: Sustainable Development, the Environment, and Connectivity
9 Sustainability, Connectivity, Environment: A Case for India-ASEAN-ROK Cooperation
Abhijit Singh and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhary
10 Prospects for India-ASEAN-ROK Cooperation on Maritime Connectivity, a Digital Deal, and Green Policy: A Southeast Asian Perspective
Tharishini Krishnan
11 Climate Diplomacy: The Clean Energy Transition of the Republic of Korea and Its Future Partnership with India
Saehee Jeong and Sunwoo (Vivian) Lee
12 Dealing with Disasters: Opportunities for ASEAN-ROK-India Cooperation in Disaster Management and Mitigation
Yanitha Meena Louis
SECTION 5: Economic Cooperation, Technology, and Trade
13 South Korea-India-ASEAN: Economic Cooperation, Trade and Investment, Supply Chain Networks – A Korean Perspective
Yoon Jung Choi
14 India-ROK-ASEAN Economic Cooperation in Trade: An Indian Perspective
Abhijit Mukhopadhyay and Nilanjan Ghosh
15 ASEAN-ROK-India: Leveraging the New Southern Policy for Triangular Cooperation
Nurliana Kamaruddin and Jan Vincent Galas
16 Global Competition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Potential for Collaboration Between South Korea and India
JI Yeon-jung
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.






