India and ASEM: The Quest for Membership

Rajendra K. Jain
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Rajendra K. Jain: Rajendra K. Jain is Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, and Adjunct Professor (Research) at Monash European and EU Studies Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. rkjain13@gmail.com

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 2013, vol. 69, issue 4, 351-366

Abstract: Indian membership of the Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) represents an interesting case study of identity and exclusion of a major Asian country from a key interregional forum. Examining the vicissitudes of India’s decade-long quest for membership of ASEM since its inception, this article highlights how the exclusionary definition of Asia in Western and Asian discourses kept India out of regional entities. It discusses the arguments of Asian and Western critics of Indian membership in ASEM and concludes that India’s purposeful and constructive Look East Policy since the early 1990s and membership of the East Asian Summit facilitated Indian membership of ASEM.

Keywords: Indian foreign policy; European Union; India-EU relations; ASEM; interregionalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/0974928413503747

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