New Delhi’s ‘Act East’ and the India-ASEAN Engagement: What They Mean for India-Korea Relations in the Indo-Pacific

Jagannath P. Panda ()
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Jagannath P. Panda: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

No 19-5, Working Papers from Korea Institute for International Economic Policy

Abstract: One of the principal objectives of New Delhi’s ‘Act East Policy’ (AEP) is to strengthen India’s contact with the ASEAN as well as with the countries in Southeast Asia. The pursuit is evolving and ever-growing, both institutionally and regionally. With a focus on ASEAN-centric cooperation, forging a closer multi-modal connectivity cooperation between India’s bordering states and the immediate Southeast Asian countries has been one of the guiding principles of this engagement. Also, this engagement is becoming deeper with India aiming to extend the connectivity cooperation to the interior parts of the ASEAN region from the immediate neighbouring region of India. A renewed focus on engagement through increased cooperation in areas such as economic, political and security realms offers a positive future graph to the India-ASEAN engagement at present which is becoming one of the defining features of Indo-Pacific.

Keywords: Act East; New Southern Policy; ASEAN; Indo-Pacific; Connectivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 124 pages
Date: 2019-05-07
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