1st Edition
India, South Korea and the ASEAN Middle Power Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific
With the US-China geostrategic competition heating up, it is an opportune time for South Korea, ASEAN and India to draw on their middle power status to bolster regional security and economic cooperation to protect their interests from any potential superpower fallout. This book investigates the diverse possibilities for collaboration within the India-ASEAN-ROK trilateral framework. It explores the various avenues of cooperation that this new trilateral initiative can benefit from, ranging from security, economic, institutional platforms and technology to sustainable development and climate change. The book provides regional perspectives on India, ASEAN and ROK to show the growing appetite in these countries for such trilateral initiatives and to forecast the challenges that may arise.
Lucid and topical, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of political science, international relations, diplomacy and strategic studies, as well as Southeast Asian, East Asian and South Asian studies. It will also be of use to thinktanks and policymakers interested in Indo-Pacific, India-ASEAN and India-ROK issues.
Introduction
Harsh V Pant and Premesha Saha
Setting the Context: Middle Power Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific: The Case for an India-Korea-ASEAN Trilateral Cooperation
Harsh V Pant and Premesha Saha
SECTION I: The Concept of Middle Powers and Middle Power Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific
1 South Korea: An Emerging Middle Power in the Indo-Pacific
Rajiv Kumar
2 India’s Indo-Pacific Reorientation
Dhruva Jaishankar
3 Indonesia in and with ASEAN: “Power” before “Middle Power”
Andrew W. Mantong
SECTION 2: Politics and Diplomacy
4 An Emerging Strategic Triangle: Assessing India-ASEAN-South Korea Relations
Shankari Sundararaman
5 Existing Multilateral Platforms as a Facilitator for India-ASEAN-ROK Cooperation: A ROK Perspective
Wondeuk Cho
SECTION 3: Defense and Security
6 Defense Cooperation between India, Indonesia, and ROK
Amarulla Octavian
7 Emerging Contours of Indo-Pacific Security and Prospects for India-South Korea-ASEAN Cooperation
G.V.C. Naidu
8 India-ASEAN-ROK Trilateral Defense and Security Cooperation: ROK Perspective
Tae-Hyung Kim
SECTION 4: Sustainable Development, the Environment, and Connectivity
9 Sustainability, Connectivity, Environment: A Case for India-ASEAN-ROK Cooperation
Abhijit Singh and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhary
10 Prospects for India-ASEAN-ROK Cooperation on Maritime Connectivity, a Digital Deal, and Green Policy: A Southeast Asian Perspective
Tharishini Krishnan
11 Climate Diplomacy: The Clean Energy Transition of the Republic of Korea and Its Future Partnership with India
Saehee Jeong and Sunwoo (Vivian) Lee
12 Dealing with Disasters: Opportunities for ASEAN-ROK-India Cooperation in Disaster Management and Mitigation
Yanitha Meena Louis
SECTION 5: Economic Cooperation, Technology, and Trade
13 South Korea-India-ASEAN: Economic Cooperation, Trade and Investment, Supply Chain Networks – A Korean Perspective
Yoon Jung Choi
14 India-ROK-ASEAN Economic Cooperation in Trade: An Indian Perspective
Abhijit Mukhopadhyay and Nilanjan Ghosh
15 ASEAN-ROK-India: Leveraging the New Southern Policy for Triangular Cooperation
Nurliana Kamaruddin and Jan Vincent Galas
16 Global Competition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Potential for Collaboration Between South Korea and India
JI Yeon-jung
Biography
Harsh V Pant, Professor of International Relations, King’s College London, UK and Vice President for Studies at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India.
Premesha Saha, Fellow, Indo-Pacific, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India.
