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India’s Approach to the Indo-Pacific / Shankari SUNDARARAMAN

India’s Approach to the Indo-Pacific : Assessing the Critical Shifts in the Post Covid 19 Period
Shankari SUNDARARAMAN, Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies (CIPS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi

The regional balance in the Indo-Pacific has been seeing considerable shifts for nearly two decades with structural changes pushing regional geopolitics to the forefront. Even as the US China rivalry will remain the determining factor for the immediate future of the international order, several states are beginning to take a distinct approach in how they respond to the challenges that are emerging in this context. The impact of Covid 19 on the regional and the international space will remain critical in the years to come and has necessitated a fresh look at certain foreign policy options for various regional countries, including India. This paper will look at India’s approach to the Indo-Pacific even as the pandemic has led to certain critical shifts in international relations in Asia.

 

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Session 4 / Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific : The Intersecting Interests of Other Major Powers
Chair : Dr. Claire, Thị Liên TRẦN, IRASEC/Univ de Paris

These last 15 years, other great powers have redefined their strategy in the region, replacing the concept of Asia-Pacific to the one of Indo-Pacific. Indeed, the region involves the intersecting interests of two other major powers - Japan and the United States - and significant middle players – Australia and South Korea as well as Western players – the European Union and Russia. The session intends to highlight their perspectives on the Indo-Pacific definition, with the aim to manage the China’s rise in the regional order. How did these great powers, which have dominated the Asia-Pacific era, reposition themselves in this new Indo-Pacific architecture. How do they manage their influencing diplomacy and partnership building, as well as their strategical and security priorities ? Will the region’s future be dominated by competition or develop in a more cooperative way in this growing economic and strategic super-region connecting two oceans ?

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“Asia’s Post-Pandemic Order and Integration : Outlook of ASEAN and the Indo-Pacific at Crossroads” is an international conference organized by The Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC-CNRS) with the ASEAN Studies Center (Chulalongkorn University) in Bangkok, and the ASEAN-India Centre (AIC), RIS in New Delhi.
8-9 July 2021 - Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok