ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on India’s relations with ASEAN, the East Asia Summit (EAS), and other regional entities in the context of the three ASEAN ‘pillars’. It asks what else India can do to pursue its interests as a growing realist power. It argues that India has begun to move towards a more realist policy towards Southeast Asia in the sense of more clearly foregrounding its strategic interests there and increasing its political and defence links with the ASEAN states who tend towards liberal-functional relationships with outside powers.
