ASEAN-India: Strengthening Partnership and Post-Pandemic Future
Contents: 1. Introduction/Prabir De and Suthiphand Chirathivat. Part I. Section I: Changing Landscape of Global Order and ASEAN-India Relations in the Post-COVID-19 Period. 2. ASEAN-India: Strengthening Partnership in the Pandemic Times/Amita Batra. 3. Changing Landscape of Global World Order and India-ASEAN Relations through India’s Northeast/Nani Gopal Mahanta. 4. Disease Control and Prevention: New Avenue for the ASEAN-India Cooperation in Post-COVID Era/Lau Sim Yee and Lau Sim Kim. 5. Changing Landscape of Global Order and ASEAN-India Relations in the Post-COVID-19 Era/Carole Ann Chit Tha. Section II: Emerging Value Chains: Opportunities for ASEAN and India in the Post-COVID-19 Period. 6. Emerging Value Chains: Opportunities for ASEAN and India in Post-COVID-19 Period/Ramesh Kodammal. 7. Emerging Value Chain Opportunities Post-COVID-19 and India-ASEAN Relations/Rupa Chanda. 8. Emerging Value Chains for ASEAN and India: The Role of RCEP/Tham Siew Yean. 9. GVCs: Opportunities for India and ASEAN Post-COVID-19/Saon Ray. Section III: New Normal and Significance of 4IR on ASEAN-India Partnership and Future Collaborations. 10. ASEAN-India Cooperation and the Pandemic’s Push towards a Digital Economy: Impact and Policy Response/Jayant Menon. 11. 4IR and the Digital Platform Economy: Opportunities and Policy Challenges for the ASEAN and India/Balaji Parthasarathy. Section IV: ASEAN Outlook on Indo-Pacific (AOIP) and Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI): Complementarities and Cooperation. 12. Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI) and ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP): Views on Complementarities/Pradeep Chauhan. 13. ASEAN-India: Strengthening Partnership in the Post-COVID-19 Era/Fukunari Kimura. 14. ASEAN Outlook on Indo-Pacific (AOIP) and the Indo-Pacific Oceans’ Initiative (IPOI): Complementarities, Challenges and Opportunities/Premesha Saha. 15. Ocean Renewable Energy: A Conflux of AOIP and IPOI/Joefe B. Santarita. Section V: Way Forward. 16. ASEAN-India Partnership in the Post-COVID-19 and Way Forward/C. Uday Bhaskar. Part II: Sixth Roundtable of ASEAN-India Network of Think Tanks (AINTT) 20-21 August 2020. Summary of the Roundtable. Key Recommendations for Actionable Projects.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and India are bound together by their shared history and culture. Relation with ASEAN is one of the cornerstones of India’s Foreign Policy. Starting in 1992, when India joined ASEAN as a sectoral dialogue partner, ASEAN and India are going to complete thirty years of their bilateral relations in 2022.
The ongoing pandemic has imposed many global and regional challenges. Moving from cooperation to integration, there is a need to jointly address challenges to strengthening the partnership between ASEAN and India in various areas. This book addresses some of these challenges in a lucid manner. It presents a set of 15 research papers, which were presented at the sixth ASEAN-India Network of Think-Tanks (AINTT) roundtable in 2020. Divided in five major sections, this volume reviews some of the achievements of ASEAN-India relations while completing three decades of partnership, and presents a set of new agenda for the fourth decade. It also underlines the desire of the ASEAN countries and India to diversify and further strengthen the relations in the third decade. This volume is also published to commemorate the thirty years of ASEAN-India relations.
