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"This book brings into focus India's relations with ASEAN and Thailand in particular. In the 1990s, India revived its relations with Southeast Asia. Yet, in comparison to China, India continued to be a distant neighbour. Hence, India has once again, through its 'Look and Act East' policies become intertwined with its immediate neighbours in the East, especially with Thailand. The objective of the book is to contextualise India's relations and influence in Southeast Asia over a period of nearly two thousand years, through culture and religion. The scope of the book extends beyond bilateral issues to include the multilateral, bringing in issues of trade negotiations under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Indo-Pacific construct. As ASEAN's importance grows in the regional and global landscape, there are ramifications for its relations with its traditional partners. The volatility and suspicion among the major powers, especially USA and China harbour the potential to disunite ASEAN. A rising India seeks a united and strong ASEAN both as a natural partner and in a bid to balance China's growing assertiveness and deep pockets. Based on interviews conducted with experts , diplomats and scholars in the field, this book encompasses a wide range of aspects that pertain to the historical, cultural, economic and strategic international relations of ASEAN and Thailand with India."

Bertil Lintner, The Costliest Pearl: China's Struggle for India's Ocean (Chennai, India: Westland Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2019), pp. 325, ₹699 (Hardbound), ISBN: 978-938-868-9717.

Shankar Acharya and Rakesh Mohan (Eds.), India's Economy - Performance and Challenges: Essays in Honour of Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. 2010. 465 pp. ISBN 9780198064695 (hbk)

Chapter 1: India-ASEAN Confluence: Centrality and Synergies -- Part A: Maritime Confluence -- Chapter 2: Locating AOIP-IPOI convergences in evolving maritime consciousness -- Chapter 3: Maritime security cooperation between India and ASEAN -- Chapter 4: Evolving geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific: India-ASEAN Engagement in constraining China -- Chapter 5: Building a community of shared future in Indo-Pacific region: Challenges and potential -- Chapter 6: Can India-ASEAN partnership reinvigorate the Indo-Pacific? -- Part B: Sub-regional linkages -- Chapter 7: Changing economic alignments: A sub-regional perspective -- Chapter 8: Indian Ocean axis of India's free and open Indo-Pacific vision -- Chapter 9: Andaman & Nicobar islands: India's new maritime frontier in the Indo-Pacific -- Chapter 10: Shared initiatives in education and knowledge between ASEAN and the Indo-Pacific countries for sustainability -- Part B: Major Partnerships -- Chapter 11: The rise of the Indo-Pacific and the theoretical foundations of India-Indonesia defence cooperation -- Chapter 12: AOIP-IPOI's conflux: A perspective from the Philippines -- Chapter 13: India-Vietnam security convergence in Indo-Pacific: through the lens of AOIP-IPOI synergy -- Chapter 14: Big power rivalry in the Indo-Pacific: Situating India's role.

Institutions, issues, and actors in the Indo-Pacific / Swaran Singh and Reena Marwah -- Multilateralism in the Asia-Pacific region: genesis and evolution / Ashis Adhikary -- Multilateralism 2.0: its emerging contours / Devyani Chaturvedi -- Economic multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific region / Katyayinee Richhariya -- ASEAN centrality in the Indo-Pacific security architecture / Vignesh Ram -- Climate change challenges: a study of island states in the Indo-Pacific / Madhura B. Bane -- Quad in the Indo-Pacific: rhetoric versus reality / Rushali Saha -- Quad as Asian NATO: a practical proposition? / Mahima Duggal -- Quad HADR strategy for the Indo-Pacific / Chanchal Sarowa -- RCEP: the new paradigm of economic multilateralism /Garima Sangwan -- BIMSTEC in the Indo-Pacific: examining the role of India / Oindrila DattaGupta -- Five eyes and the evolving Indo Pacific paradigm / Swasti Rao -- Maritime multilateralism: examining Indo-Pacific oceans initiative / Silky Kaur.

"In a world of unprecedented disruption and market turbulence, business transformation revolves around the need to generate new values, unlock new opportunities, drive new growth, and deliver new efficiencies. The world is witnessing volatility in the environment, in technology, in the economy and in society. 'Business as usual' is no longer acceptable, and the pertinent question is how long can humanity continue pursuing consumption and growth predicated on ever-increasing efficiency. The Coronavirus pandemic has amplified concerns about the highly digitized, interconnected, and vulnerable state of the global economy, the relationship with nature, and the prospects for each living being on this planet, including people, to survive and to thrive. To navigate and survive the coming decade of transformative change, every business will need to harness all the ingenuity, creativity and imagination they can muster. Corporate leaders and entrepreneurs will be required to steer their businesses towards a new model of prosperity, based on green and regenerative principles. It is time for leaders in business to overhaul their purpose, plans and strategies for this new context and explore different futures, engage with new partners and create space for experimentation. The only way to prepare for the future is to explore how companies, especially medium and small enterprises as well as women led businesses can transform their future strategies to be more compatible with challenges such as cyber security, human security, ethical principles and financial transparency. This book presents a collection of empirical and original research papers on evolving business strategies within a dynamic global environment to provide valuable insights to scholars, academicians, practitioners, policymakers and students"--

"The year 2020 was a watershed event in the history of climate change politics. It marked the end of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and the beginning of the ambitious Paris Agreement. It was also the year of the pandemic, where the disruption caused severe implications on a global scale. The pandemic also brought before the world the severity and scale of the transboundary challenges in a globally interconnected world. It exposed the weaknesses of the global institutions and governance structures in tackling the complex and imminent threat of climate change. As states prepare for the future of global climate change negotiations post the COP26 event of 2021, there has been a significant shift in the politics of climate change at all levels. The negotiations took place in the shadows of the pandemic, which has challenged the political lethargy and non-committal attitudes of states on the climate change question. Unlike in the past, climate change is now a hot issue on the political high tables. It has also spilled outside these negotiating spaces and into the public sphere. Whether it is the school strikes led by children or the indigenous struggles of marginalized populations, the politics of climate change today is far more diverse, representative, and active. At the same time, we can witness the shifts in the state's understanding of the problem, which is actively inquiring about its security and geopolitical dimensions. The boundaries between traditional and non-traditional threats to security are getting blurred as climate change, and its myriad impacts wreak havoc on ecosystem resilience, the state's welfare capacity, and people's everyday lives. Hence, this volume seeks to decipher the nature of global climate change politics in the post-pandemic and climate insecure world. Who will be its main actors, main stakeholders, and losers? How will questions of equity, sustainability, and finance interplay at the COP26 event and thereafter? How will developing and poor countries engage with the issue in the next phase of climate politics? Finally, how will the ambition of the Paris Agreement, which is reflected in the language of net-zero targets and the two degrees Celsius temperature goals, be brought into action?"--

1. Swaran Singh & Reena Marwah - Introduction chapter -- 2. Dattesh D. Parulekar- Decoding 'Sovereign networks' in the Indo-Pacific: Contesting China's 'Ascendent-Rise' -- 3. Rubina Waseem–US-China Strategic Competition: Through the matrix of Complex Interdependence -- 4. Stephen Robert Nagy — China in Japanese Perspectives of the Indo-Pacific -- 5. Don McLain Gill - China in the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific: Motivations, Opportunities and Challenges -- 6. Claudia Astarita - European Union's Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Region -- 7. Artyom Garin - China in the Indo-Pacific Region: Australian Perspectives -- 8. Devendra Kumar Bishnoi – China's 'Community of Shared Future' narrative -- 9. Swaran Singh & Brijesh Chandra Srivastava – China's Revisionist Approach to Indo-Pacific -- 10. Mrittika Guha Sarkar- China's Regional Engagement and the Quad: Mapping Conceptual dynamics -- 11. Madhura Bane - China's Engagement with the Pacific Islands -- 12. Reena Marwah and Abhishek Verma – China's Maneuvers in South Asia -- 13. Swaran Singh & Yang Yang- Status Signalling of China and India in Multilateral East Asia Summit within the Evolving Indo-Pacific Region.

The book emanates from the geopolitical and geo-economic churning and transformations set in motion by the unprecedented economic rise of China resulting in its expanding political influence across the region and the world. In both the economic and the security realms, the United States and China alike are increasingly seen contesting in shaping the Indo-Pacific regional order to their own advantage. This book unfolds the contours and dimensions of China's responses to various multilateral initiatives of the US and its friends and allies like Japan, Australia, and India and, to some extent, even ASEAN. While China's medium-term strategy envisages a non-hostile external environment in order to focus on domestic priorities; reducing dependence of littoral nations of the Indo-Pacific region on America while increasing their engagement and dependence on China. China's expanding reach and influence overseas has resulted in US-led initiatives being China-focused inviting a response from China where adverse reactions have become increasingly palpable. Prof Swaran Singh is professor of diplomacy and disarmament at Jawaharlal Nehru university (New Delhi) and currently visiting professor at University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). He is fellow of Canadian Global Affairs Institute, Adjunct Fellow of The Charhar Institute (Beijing) and president of Association of Asia Scholars (asiascholars.in). Prof. Reena Marwah is professor of international business in Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. She is the recipient of several international consultancies, awards and fellowships. She is Secretary General, Association of Asia Scholars (asiascholars.in) and founding editor of Millennial Asia, an International Journal on Asian issues.