India and ASEAN in the Indo Pacific

This book investigates India-ASEAN partnership and their overlapping perspective on the Indo-Pacific region and big powers' contestation and competition in this region providing specific nuances and newer insights. It is policy-oriented and examines the confluence of ASEAN's Outlook for Indo-Pacific (AOIP) and India's Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI). It brings out various contemporary geopolitical drivers that highlight the hidden complementarities and gaps in India-ASEAN multi-sectoral connectivity and its future. The book provides a balanced assessment of evolving trends, undergirded by theoretical debates and empirical analyses with diverse sub-regional and country perspectives of the intersection between the potential for regional convergence, domestic capacity issues, and security interests. It is thus of immense use for thinktanks and media commentators, policy makers, and researchers of Indo-Pacific & Asian affairs, international relations, and China-US relations, interested in evolving contours of Indo-Pacific geopolitics.

Focuses on India-ASEAN convergence in the Indo-Pacific region against US-China contestation in this region Highlights convergence between ASEAN's Outlook for Indo-Pacific and India's Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative It explores how US-China contestations have created space for India & ASEAN to contribute to Indo-Pacific narratives

Auteur
Swaran Singh is a professor in Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi). He is president of Association of Asia Scholars, director India for Washington-based The Millennium Project's South Asia Foresight Network, Fellow of Canadian Global Affairs Institute (Calgary), Member of Governing Body of Society of Indian Ocean Studies (New Delhi) and formerly visiting professor in department of political science, University of British Columbia (Vancouver), Australian National University (Canberra), Science Po (Bordeaux), University of the Philippines (Manila) and several other universities across China and other parts of Asia. He has supervised 40 PhDs and 50 MPhil degrees and sits on various selection committee and editorial/advisory boards of prestigious journals. He is a well published author and regularly for CGTN and other radio and television discussion.

Reena Marwah is a professor in Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University. She is the recipient of several national and international fellowships including the McNamara Fellowship of the World Bank, Asia fellowship of the Asian Scholarship Foundation and the ICSSR Senior Fellowship. She has been a Consultant for the World Bank and UN Women. She is the founding editor of Millennial Asia, a quarterly Scopus journal on Asian Studies of the Association of Asia Scholars. She has published over twenty books and several research papers and articles in national and international journals.

Contenu

Chapter 1: India-ASEAN Confluence: Centrality and Synergies.- Part A: Maritime Confluence.- Chapter 2: Locating AOIP-IPOI convergences in evolving maritime consciousness.- Chapter 3: Maritime security cooperation between India and ASEAN.- Chapter 4: Evolving geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific: India-ASEAN Engagement in constraining China.- Chapter 5: Building a community of shared future in Indo-Pacific region: Challenges and potential.- Chapter 6: Can India-ASEAN partnership reinvigorate the Indo-Pacific?.- Part B: Sub-regional linkages.- Chapter 7: Changing economic alignments: A sub-regional perspective.- Chapter 8: Indian Ocean axis of India's free and open Indo-Pacific vision.- Chapter 9: Andaman & Nicobar islands: India's new maritime frontier in the Indo-Pacific.- Chapter 10: Shared initiatives in education and knowledge between ASEAN and the Indo-Pacific countries for sustainability.- Part B: Major Partnerships.- Chapter 11: The rise of the Indo-Pacific and the theoretical foundations of India-Indonesia defence cooperation.- Chapter 12: AOIP-IPOI's conflux: A perspective from the Philippines.- Chapter 13: India-Vietnam security convergence in Indo-Pacific: through the lens of AOIP-IPOI synergy.- Chapter 14: Big power rivalry in the Indo-Pacific: Situating India's role.