Foreign Policy of India and Asia-Pacific
Contents: Preface. 1. Domestic imperatives of India's growing engagement with Southeast Asia/A.N. Ram. 2. Southeast Asia's reciprocal engagement strategy: external actors and regional security/Kripa Sridharan. 3. India and ASEAN: evolving a new culture/Ganganath Jha. 4. Regional cohesion of ASEAN after four decades/Tridib Chakraborti. 5. Rise of India and its implications for Southeast Asia/Mala Selvaraju. 6. Malaysian Indian society in ferment/V. Suryanarayan. 7. Geopolitics of cyclone relief efforts in Myanmar/M. Prayaga and A. Lakshmana Chetty. 8. India-Myanmar relations: predicament and prospects/Syed Ali Mujtaba. 9. Strategic relations between India and Vietnam/C. Ravindranath Reddy. 10. Towards East Asian Community in Asia-Pacific/Y. Yagama Reddy. 11. US and India in the Asia Pacific/G.V.C. Naidu. 12. Asia-Pacific security dynamics and India/S. Utham Kumar Jamadhagni. 13. Emerging Indo-US strategic relations: impact on Asia-Pacific/Sudhir Singh. 14. Asia-Pacific: India's perception/C. Sheela Reddy and N. Amareswaran. 15. Asian approach to economic development: the case of East Asia's four tigers/B. Srinivasulu and V. Ramesh Babu. 16. Kevin Rudd and his security architecture proposal for the Asia Pacific/Rajaram Panda. 17. Sino-Indian relations: dead weight of old mindsets or opening of new vistas?/Rabindra Sen. 18. China and regional security architecture/D.S. Rajan. 19. India-Australia relations: possible avenues of energy co-operation/G. Jayachandra Reddy. 20. Nation building in Fiji: need for India's sustainable linkages/P. Munirathnam Reddy and E. Subbrama Krishnaiah. 21. Indians in New Zealand/G. Vijay Kumar Reddy and M. Prayaga. Index.
Asia-Pacific region is home not only for economic power houses like India, China and Japan but also for the emerging economies like Indonesia and Vietnam. Flash points like the South China Sea and Korean Peninsula highlight the vulnerability of the region's security landscape.
India--which is witnessing high growth rate--is regarded as a strong and enduring Asia-Pacific partner. India's foreign policy is geared to meet the demands of the interdependent world whose watchwords are peace and development.
This volume contains 21 research papers - authored by scholars in the field-which provide valuable inputs of ideas, facts and figures about Asia-Pacific region. The volume will be useful for academicians, students, analysts, business executives, policy planners and the general reading public interested in seeking deeper insights into the emerging dynamics of Asia-Pacific region. (jacket)
