India-ASEAN Partnership in an Era of Globalization.(Book Review)

Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi: 2003. Pp. 267.

Since the end of the Cold War and the initiation of India's Look East Policy, India-ASEAN relations have progressed from sectoral dialogue partnership to annual summit-level meeting. The discussions are currently underway to take the relationship further in the form of an economic partnership agreement to be fully operationalized by early next decade. India is also engaged in discussions to form bilateral economic partnerships with Singapore, and with Thailand. In addition, subregional co-operation between India and some of the ASEAN members such as Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos has also accelerated. The density of relations between India and ASEAN has increased considerably, and economic relations are much more broad-based than a decade ago.

This book contains twenty-one lectures delivered between December 1996 and August 2002 by distinguished persons from ASEAN and from India under the Indian Government's India-ASEAN Eminent Persons Lecture Series. The period covers both the pre-and post-1997 East Asian crisis. The fourteen lectures delivered by the ASEAN side …