| Issue - 2025 | Page No - 59 |
| BEYOND GEOGRAPHY: REVISITING COOPERATION BETWEEN INDIA AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA IN INDO-PACIFIC | |
| Author's Name : Megha Chakraborty & Animesh Mishra | |
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The Indo-Pacific is the hub of world politics in the present geopolitical parlance and while the South-East Asia provides a theatre for the promotion of the Free and Open Indo- Pacific (FOIP) but it shows divergence in the understanding of the Indo-Pacific among the differing actors engaged. Indo-Pacific is used as a connective tissue of economic and cultural interactions between India and South-east Asia, over and above the idea of Indo-Pacific that is merely cartographic delineation of the region. So the central research questions handled in the paper tend to transgress the geographical certainty by presenting Indo-pacific as a concept where the ideas of expansion of sites of collective cooperation between India and South-East Asia promoting partnerships take shape. This paper aims to study the China aggressiveness in its neighborhood and also critically analyse how, and why Indo-pacific has become a field of contention and rivalry between China and The US which eventually determines the strategic choices and interests of South-East Asia and India. This paper seeks to trace the path of RCEP so as to identify the gap in the commitment of India and ASEAN towards the dream of the Indo-Pacific. This paper is based on the literature review of the changing dynamics and role of the actors in the Indo-Pacific region. Highlights: The report forces weariness of the contentions for control, the transfer from stereotyping struggle to aggregate expenses focused on the "ASEAN focal point" moved toward pondering the vital interests in which strife and participation are metabolic processes keeping pace with geographic changes in the world economy.
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