1st Edition

Indo-Pacific and ASEAN New Balances and New Challenges for Asian Integration and Stability

324 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

324 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

324 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

This book examines Indo-Pacific issues from a Southeast Asian perspective and goes beyond discourses such as ASEAN–China or ASEAN–US–China. It analyses the new regional balances in the ASEAN and Indo-Pacific region at the diplomatic, strategic and economic levels while taking into account the ongoing uncertainty of the international order, reshaped by the post COVID-19 crisis and characterised by... Read more

Chapter 1 Introduction

Thi Liên Claire Tran, Suthiphand Chirathivat, Prabir De

 

PART I THE INDO-PACIFIC FROM SOUTHEAST ASIAN PERSPECTIVES: CENTRALITY AND MULTILATERALISM IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

 

Chapter 2 Positioning ASEAN in a Multipolar Indo-Pacific

Joefe B. Santarita

 

Chapter 3 To Win Without Making Others Lose”: Understanding Indonesia’s Approach towards Indo-Pacific Discourse

Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad

 

Chapter 4 ASEAN and the Indo-Pacific: A Strategic New Equilibrium for Thailand

Panitan Wattanayagorn & Tita Sanglee

 

Chapter 5 Vietnam’s Perspective on the Indo-Pacific

Thi Liên Claire Tran

 

Chapter 6 An Evolving Indo-Pacific Concept: A Cambodian Perspective

Cheunboran Chanborey and Chheang Vannarith

 

Chapter 7 Myanmar’s Perspective on the Indo-Pacific

Chaw Chaw Sein

 

PART II GEOPOLITICS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC: THE INTERSECTING INTERESTS OF OTHER MAJOR POWERS

 

Chapter 8 Divide and Rule: China’s Responses to the Various Indo-Pacific Initiatives and Its Changing Relations with the ASEAN

Jean Pierre Cabestan

 

Chapter 9 Where ‘Act East’ Meets Indo-Pacific: Mapping India’s Eastward Engagement: Rahul Mishra

 

Chapter 10 Japan and the Indo-Pacific: Forging a Region

Guibourg Delamotte

 

Chapter 11 US Strategy toward the Indo-Pacific: Is the United States Back?

Murray Hiebert

 

Chapter 12 Russia's Foreign Policy Objectives and the Outlook on the Indo-Pacific

Igor Denisov and Danil Bochkov

 

Chapter 13 France within the European Rediscovery of the Indo-Pacific

David Camroux

 

PART III ASEAN AMIDST COMPETING CONNECTIVITY STRATEGIES AND INTEGRATION CHALLENGES

 

Chapter 14 Digital Connectivity in ASEAN: Opportunities and Challenges

Sineenat Sermcheep

 

Chapter 15 India, ASEAN and the Quad: Economic Imperatives of the Indo-Pacific

Amita Batra

 

Chapter 16 ASEAN's Perspectives in Asia-Africa Growth Corridor Partnership in the Indo-Pacific Realm

Thi Anh-Dao Tran

Chapter 17 Looking Ahead: Shifts in Global Geopolitical Trends 2030 – A Foresight Exercise

Piti Srisangnam

 

Chapter 18 Between the Two Seas of Indo-Pacific: From Kra Isthmus to Thai Canal and Landbridge in Southern Thailand

Suthiphand Chirathivat and Charit Tingsabadh

 

 

Index

 

 

Biography

Claire Thi Liên Tran is Historian of Contemporary Vietnam and Associate Professor at Université Paris Cité and Researcher at Cessma (Centre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques).

Suthiphand Chirathivat is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Chulalongkorn University and co-executive editor of the Journal of Asian Economic Integration. He was the former Executive Director of ASEAN Studies Center and Chairman of Chula Global Network, Dean at the Faculty of Economics and Chairman of the Center for International Economics.

Prabir De is Professor at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, India.