ASEAN and Regional Actors in the Indo-Pacific

Abstract

Part I Revealing India's Impacts -- 1 New Geopolitical Landscape and Resource Security -- 2 India's Look East and Act East Policies from a Historical and Contemporary Perspectives -- 3 The Role of India in South Asia's Economic Development -- 4 Financial Stability of Microfinance Institutions in the Post Global Financial Crisis: A Case of South Asia -- 5 India and Southeast Asia Relations: Evolution, Challenges and Recent Developments -- 6 India's Vaccine Diplomacy: Implications for Regional Connectivity and Global Security -- Part II Reinforcing Japan-Myanmar Relations -- 7 Japan-Myanmar Relations in Democratising Development: Disordered Army State to a Hybrid Democracy -- 8 Patterns of Myanmar's Foreign Policy: The Case of Omni-balancing in Changing Environment -- 9 Japan's Mekong Policy and Myanmar: Complementing a Viable Strategic Partnership -- 10 Patterns of Japanese Development Assistance for Social Transformation in Reform-Era Myanmar -- 11 Promoting Human Security by Japanese NGOs: Filling the void in G-to-G Assistance in Myanmar -- 12 Strengthening Press Freedom in Myanmar from Japan's Perspective -- 13 The Post-2020 Election Democratic Consolidation in Myanmar: Possibilities, Challenges and Collaborations -- Part III Reviewing ASEAN Centrality -- 14 ASEAN Centrality and Outlook on Indo-Pacific: The Origin, Adjustment and Opportunity -- 15 Japan's Relations with ASEAN Post-COVID19: Navigating the New Cold War -- 16 China's Role of Trade and Investment in CLMV: Cross the Mekong River by First Touching the Stone -- 17 Energy Transition in Thailand and Southeast Asia through China's Energy Diplomacy -- 18 India's Commitment to ASEAN and the China Conundrum -- 19 The Triangle of Connectivity: The India-Myanmar-Japan Relations and Changing Currents in ASEAN. .