Heading East: Security, Trade, and Environment between India and Southeast Asia
Karen Stoll Farrell and Sumit Ganguly
Abstract
The end of the Cold War and economic liberalization in India marked a new turn in Indian diplomacy. The ‘Look East’ policy promulgated in the early 1990s entailed several strategic and economic initiatives aimed at deepening India’s ties with Southeast Asia, which had been neglected earlier. Despite the launch of the programme a decade and a half ago, India’s involvement with the region proved to be fitful. With the ‘Act East’ initiative, which was launched in 2014, there appears to be a renewed emphasis on forging working relationships with various states in the region. This volume, part of t ... More
The end of the Cold War and economic liberalization in India marked a new turn in Indian diplomacy. The ‘Look East’ policy promulgated in the early 1990s entailed several strategic and economic initiatives aimed at deepening India’s ties with Southeast Asia, which had been neglected earlier. Despite the launch of the programme a decade and a half ago, India’s involvement with the region proved to be fitful. With the ‘Act East’ initiative, which was launched in 2014, there appears to be a renewed emphasis on forging working relationships with various states in the region. This volume, part of the Oxford International Relations in South Asia series, presents an overarching assessment of the contents, successes, and failures of India’s Southeast Asia policy, with important pointers to how this relationship could be steered in the future. The contributors to the volume dwell on three critical areas—trade, security, and environment—and outline the existing ties of India’s northeast with Southeast Asia and the prospects of their expansion.
Keywords:
India,
Southeast Asia,
trade,
transportation,
security,
water security,
regional security,
ASEAN,
international trade,
Act East,
connectivity,
Look East,
Northeast India
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199467242 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199467242.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Karen Stoll Farrell, editor
Head of the Area Sltudies Department and Librarian for South Asian and Southeast Asian Studies, Indiana University Libraries
Sumit Ganguly, editor
Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
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