ABSTRACT
This book focuses on the scope, potential and future of the India-Japan-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) trilateral.
Through this book, contributors examine the strategic and global partnership between India and Japan and the collaboration with ASEAN. Analysing contemporary strategic issues in the Indo-Pacific, the book takes up the complex link between security and economics. It offers a thorough understanding on how the major Asian powers, India and Japan, cooperate and coordinate with the ASEAN. It delves into few critical questions: Is there a scope for India-Japan-ASEAN triangularity in the Indo-Pacific? Can a formal or institutional cooperation be forged between these three actors? What specific cooperation could India and Japan forge with ASEAN as an institution? To what extent can each ASEAN member independently become a partner with India and Japan?
A novel assessment of the post-pandemic economic and political balancing and restructuring, this book will be of interest to Asian politics, international relations, strategic studies, regional organizations in Asia and think tanks specializing in foreign policy, security studies, international trade and economics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|46 pages
India and Japan's ASEAN Outlooks
chapter 2|22 pages
The ‘Japan factor' in India's engagement with Southeast Asia
part II|76 pages
India-Japan-ASEAN's Maritime Connect
chapter 4|15 pages
The Struggle for Centrality
chapter 6|29 pages
Institutional Mechanisms and Maritime Development Cooperation
part III|76 pages
Triangularity and Power Configurations
chapter 10|20 pages
Japan's Vientiane Vision and the Prospect of India-Japan-Australia Cooperation
chapter 11|16 pages
India, Japan, ASEAN and Taiwan
part IV|77 pages
Trilateral to Quadrilateral