India-Japan Relations @70: Building Beyond the Bilateral

Contents: Foreword. 1. Introduction/Srabani Roy Choudhury, Shahana Thankachan and Parul Bakshi. 2. FromCivilisational to Strategic Partnership: Walking the Road/Mithilesh Kumar Singh. 3. The Soft Power Equation: Delineating the Dynamics/Asmita Chandra and Aishwarya Sahay. 4. Securing the Partnership: Lock, Stock and Barrel/Shahana Thankachan. 5. Securing the Seas: Assessing the Evolving Maritime Cooperation/Nabam Tunia. 6. Economic Engagement: Tracing the Trajectory/Swati Arora. 7. Fostering Connectivity: Collaborating in the Indo-Pacific/Chandrali Sarkar. 8. Expanding Boundaries: Cyberspace and Outer Space/Makaranda Barik. 9. Mapping the Multilateral Engagements: United Nations, G20 and the East Asia Summit/Ashish Kumar Thakur. 10. Energising the Cooperation: Renewable Energy Transitions in the Power Sector/Parul Bakshi. 11. The New Frontiers: Endless Opportunities/Srabani Roy Choudhury. Appendices. Index.

As India and Japan celebrate 70 years of cultural and civilisational bedrock of their diplomatic relations, this volume delineates the past to the present, and proffers a vision for the future. Commemorating the traditional areas of cooperation, it redefines the contours and components of bilateralism and it offers a glimpse of existing and emerging areas of cooperation, enabling them to ‘Build Beyond the Bilateral’.