1st Edition
Thirty Years of ASEAN-India Relations Towards Indo-Pacific
India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are civilisational partners and belong to a shared geography. They not only share land and maritime borders, engagements between India and ASEAN have expanded from trade and investment to culture, science and technology, connectivity and sustainable development. The year 2022 marks the 30 years of partnership between ASEAN and India. In the last three decades, ASEAN and India have elevated their relations from the sectoral level to summit level to comprehensive strategic partnership level.
The book Thirty Years of ASEAN-India Relations: Towards Indo-Pacific, presents rich prescriptions for the future. It covers a wide range of topics in the fields of economics, geography, history, archaeology, international trade, tourism, migration, and infrastructure for transport. The authors of the chapters are from diverse fields of academic disciplines from India and the ASEAN. Published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of ASEAN-India relations, this book is a valuable resource for practitioners and scholars who are interested in economic integration.
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Message from the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
Message from The Asia Foundation
Preface
List of Tables, Figures and Maps
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
1. Introduction
Prabir De
PART I: From Look East to Act East
2. ASEAN-India Relations at 30: Cooperation, Challenges and Prospects
Sampa Kundu
3. India and ASEAN: Assessing the Economic Partnership in the New Decade
Temjenmeren Ao
PART II: Major Pillars of Cooperation
Trade and Investment
4. ASEAN-India Economic Relations: The Unfolding of the Trade Sector
Nida Rahman and Prabir De
5. Agricultural Trade between India and ASEAN: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
Komal Biswal and Prabir De
6. India-ASEAN Trade in Services: Prospects and Challenges
Pralok Gupta
7. India’s Possible Trade Alignment with the Southeast Asia: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Impacts on Carbon Emissions
Archana Srivastava and Somesh K. Mathur
8. Investment Relations between ASEAN and India
Durairaj Kumarasamy
9. Does Economic Freedom Influence the FDI-Growth Nexus in ASEAN Economies?
Md Gyasuddin Ansari and Rudra Sensarma
Production Networks
10. ASEAN-India Global Value Chain Linkages: Trends and Opportunities
Nida Rahman and Prabir De
11. Emerging Value Chain Opportunities Post-COVID-19 and India-ASEAN Relations
Rupa Chanda Connectivity
12. Thirty Years of ASEAN-India Connectivity
Prabir De
13. Land Ports in India’s Northeast as Gateways to Southeast Asia
Samridhi Bimal
Culture
14. Next Generation Cultural Relations between ASEAN and India: A Multi-dimensional Matrix Framework
Sabyasachi Dutta and Sreya Pan Mitra
15. Cultural Ties between India and ASEAN in a Changing Era
Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy
16. Beyond Borderlines: Safeguarding and Preservation of Shared Intangible Cultural Heritage between ASEAN and India
Rajesh Dey
PART III: New Areas of Cooperation
17. ASEAN-India Cooperation for an Equitable Global Economic Order
Nitya Nanda
18. ASEAN-India Cooperation: Towards the Digital Economy Decade
Nida Rahman and Arpita Mukherjee
19. ASEAN-India Cooperation and the Pandemic’s Push towards a Digital Economy: Impact and Policy Response
Jayant Menon
20. Dealing with Climate Change: Enhanced Opportunities for India-ASEAN’s Transition towards Net-Zero Economy
Venkatachalam Anbumozhi
21. Assessing ASEAN-India Future Cooperation Opportunities through the Sustainable Development
Framework
Melinda Martinus
22. Enhancing ASEAN-India Partnership in e-VBAB: Challenges, Opportunities and the Way Forward
Sampa Kundu, Nida Rahman and Sreya Pan
23. Teaching International Relations through e-VBAB in ASEAN: Some Thoughts on Engaging Public Universities
Ishani Naskar
24. ASEAN-India Cooperation in MSMEs
Surendar Singh
25. India and ASEAN: Transcending Traditional and Non-Traditional Security Dichotomy
Sanjay Pulipaka
26. India’s Development Partnership with IMT-GT: Identifying the Regional Cooperation Contours
Prabir De, Sreya Pan and Nida Rahman
PART IV: Way Forward
27. ASEAN-India Cooperation in Strengthening Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA)
Debesh Lahiri and Apila Sangtam
28. Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI): Trade, Connectivity and Maritime Transport
Prabir De
29. ASEAN Outlook on Indo-Pacific (AOIP) and the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI): Complementarities, Challenges and Opportunities
Premesha Saha
30. Emerging Global Order and ASEAN-India in Indo-Pacific
Prabir De
Biography
Prabir De, Professor, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi.
