| Issue - 2025 | Page No - 10 |
| A SUI GENERIS FOREIGN POLICY FRAMEWORK OF INDIA’S CONTEMPORANEOUS SOUTH EAST ASIAN SPECTRUM: LEVERAGING SPECIAL MENTION ON NORTH EAST INDIA | |
| Author's Name : Aniruddha Saha | |
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India’s contemporary foreign policy appears to be largely focused on coherence with Southeast Asia; therefore, this paper will explore both constructive and critical aspects of this organic relationship. This paper shall initiate with a comprehensive and comparative brief of India’s foreign policy in the context of the Look East cum Act East policy in various temporalities and analyse some real-time exigencies hindering this historical and prospective concurrence. A significant aspect of this article presents a unique ‘secessionist’ perspective on how the solidarity of India’s North-eastern States is essential for stabilising India’s Southeast Asian ambitions, and it discusses how the ongoing neglect of this region could lead to disastrous consequences for India’s territorial integrity. A case study comprising how the Modi regime has been balancing both imperative bilateralism as well as conditional multilateralism with its approach to dealing with its Southeast Asian contours is well laid out in this paper. Contemplating over the fact that India’s foreign policy was deprived of a strategic vision for the Asia Pacific, Act East attempts to congregate and correct this historical neglect with a tinge of focus on how India does and ought to prospectively counter China’s leverage on Southeast Asian economies. An overarching aspect of discussion also exemplifies India’s maritime security arena and suggestively addresses the question of India’s holistic dilemma of Southeast Asian relations. Innovatively, the question of whether India shall vouch for a ‘Monroe Doctrine’ for Asia is to be addressed constructively.
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