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Security, Trade, and Environment between India and Southeast Asia
Price: 950.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199467242
Publication date:
30/07/2016
Hardback
292 pages
Price: 950.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199467242
Publication date:
30/07/2016
Hardback
292 pages
Edited by Karen Stoll Farrell & Sumit Ganguly
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.
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Edited by Karen Stoll Farrell & Sumit Ganguly
Description
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 program 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.
About the Editor
Karen Stoll Farrell is Head of the Area Studies Department and Librarian for South Asian and Southeast Asian Studies at Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, USA.
Sumit Ganguly is Professor of Political Science, holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, and directs the Center on American and Global Security at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
Edited by Karen Stoll Farrell & Sumit Ganguly
Table of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: India and Southeast Asia
Karen Stoll Farrell and Sumit Ganguly
I Security
1. India and the East: Connectivity Begins at Home
David J. Karl
2. ASEAN–India Cooperation in Counterterrorism: Evolution and Future
Julio S. Amador III
3. India’s Engagement with Myanmar: Regional Security Implications of Acting East Slowly
Jonah Blank
4. The Indo-Myanmar Border and India’s Security Problems in the East
Bertil Lintner
5. Making People’s Voices Count: Northeast India and Its Neighbourhood
Sanjoy Hazarika
II Trade
6. India and the Potential of Trade East
Rani D. Mullen
7. India and RCEP: Challenges and Opportunities of Opening Up the Farm/Food Sector
Surupa Gupta
8. Motor Vehicle Movement and Standards between Bangladesh and India: Regional Connectivity and Trade
Bipul Chatterjee and Prithviraj Nath
III Environment
9. Regional Integration and Its Discontents: The Case of Transboundary Water Sharing
Douglas P. Hill
10. Governance, Connectivity, and Knowledge Transparency in the Brahmaputra Basin
Kelly D. Alley
11. Pulses against Volumes: Transboundary Rivers and Pan-Asian Connectivity
Rohan D’Souza
Index
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Edited by Karen Stoll Farrell & Sumit Ganguly
Edited by Karen Stoll Farrell & Sumit Ganguly
Description
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 program 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.
About the Editor
Karen Stoll Farrell is Head of the Area Studies Department and Librarian for South Asian and Southeast Asian Studies at Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, USA.
Sumit Ganguly is Professor of Political Science, holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, and directs the Center on American and Global Security at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
Table of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: India and Southeast Asia
Karen Stoll Farrell and Sumit Ganguly
I Security
1. India and the East: Connectivity Begins at Home
David J. Karl
2. ASEAN–India Cooperation in Counterterrorism: Evolution and Future
Julio S. Amador III
3. India’s Engagement with Myanmar: Regional Security Implications of Acting East Slowly
Jonah Blank
4. The Indo-Myanmar Border and India’s Security Problems in the East
Bertil Lintner
5. Making People’s Voices Count: Northeast India and Its Neighbourhood
Sanjoy Hazarika
II Trade
6. India and the Potential of Trade East
Rani D. Mullen
7. India and RCEP: Challenges and Opportunities of Opening Up the Farm/Food Sector
Surupa Gupta
8. Motor Vehicle Movement and Standards between Bangladesh and India: Regional Connectivity and Trade
Bipul Chatterjee and Prithviraj Nath
III Environment
9. Regional Integration and Its Discontents: The Case of Transboundary Water Sharing
Douglas P. Hill
10. Governance, Connectivity, and Knowledge Transparency in the Brahmaputra Basin
Kelly D. Alley
11. Pulses against Volumes: Transboundary Rivers and Pan-Asian Connectivity
Rohan D’Souza
Index
Notes on Editors and Contributors