India and ASEAN Partners at Summit

Contents Foreword/Ambassador Rodolfo C. Severino. Preface. Acronyms. 1. India and ASEAN Summit partnership/P.V. Rao. I. Steps to Summit 2. ASEAN India Post Summit perspectives/Sudhir Devare. 3. Summitry in India ASEAN Relations/Paramjit Sahai. 3. India and ASEAN The road ahead/A.N. Ram. 4. ASEAN's RTAs relevance to India/Eero Palmujoki. II. Security perspectives 5. India and Southeast Asia an analysis of the Look East Policy/G.V.C. Naidu. 6. ASEAN India and Southeast Asian security a critical overview/Anindya Batabyal. 7. ASEAN India partnership in the 21 century strategic perceptions/K.S. Balakrishnan. 8. India's maritime security and ASEAN Issues of narcoterrorism piracy and poaching/Vibhanshu Shekhar. III. The China factor 9. India's Look East Policy A Chinese perspective/Zhao Gancheng. 10. China India and ASEAN/Aileen S.P. Baviera. 11. The China factor in India's Look East Policy/Swaran Singh. 12. China's maritime strategy in Asia Pacific a view from India/Srikant Kondapalli. 13. Mekong Ganga Cooperation Sino Indian perspectives/Yagama Reddy. IV. Bilateral relations 14. India and Singapore new initiatives for cooperation/Pankaj Kumar Jha. 15. India ASEAN Cultural cooperation a Malaysian perspective/Aruna Gopinath. 16. From national reconstruction to market economy space and time analysis of India's Look East Vietnam Policy/Tridib Chakraborti. 17. Engaging the traditional friend Vietnam's approach to India in the ASEAN Context/Nguyen Nam Duong. 18. India Myanmar relations courting the Junta/Renaud Egreteau. 19. Burma's China connection implications for India/Andrew Selth. Contributors. Annexures. Bibliography. Index. India's relations with ASEAN have surpassed the original contours of the Look East Policy. ASEAN has been used by India as a springboard to reach out into the wider Asia Pacific region. India's early diplomatic initiatives and the various steps through which she graduated to the Summit level with ASEAN are thoroughly analysed in this book. Association with the ASEAN has enabled India to gain access to several regional and multilateral forums such as the ARF East Asia Summit and ASEM. As a matter of fact interaction with ASEAN has fuelled greater dynamism to India's regional multilateral in contrast to that by SAARC. Certainly the scope and level of India's involvement in ASEAN are greater than that with the South Asian regional forum. Summit status with ASEAN (ASEAN Plus One) has enlarged India's involvement in many sectors not just economic and political of the member countries. The India ASEAN Partnership Agreement (2004) laid out a broad canvass of intersectoral engagement between the parties. The book discusses the potentialities and limitations of the cooperative areas chartered by the partnership. This book is an exercise by regional specialists in assessing the different dimensions of India ASEAN relations. As Asia Pacific has become the foci of great power involvement one cannot ignore the relevance of such involvement to the India ASEAN relations. For dealing with ASEAN means engaging its individual member countries as well as those other powers and forums affiliated with that organisation. Hence India's relations with the individual countries ASEAN's affiliated bodies as well as the impact on India of great power relations say China with the ASEAN are broadly debated. Just as India's rapid engagement with ASEAN is a matter of concern to the regional powers New Delhi too would have equal reason to take cognizance of the role and relevance of other powers in ASEAN. The book attempts to deviate from an economic centric treatment of the India ASEAN engagement. Much of the existing literature overemphasized the economic content of the mutual intercourse. While trade and investment no doubt had been a core objective of the Look East drive into Southeast Asia the strategic dimension was not a secondary objective. Geo politics like geo economics as much was the driving force behind India's Eastern Drive. Henc. …