Indo-Pacific and ASEAN
New Balances and New Challenges for Asian Integration and Stability
Claire Thi-Liên Tran, Suthiphand Chirathivat, Prabir De
Routledge-IRASEC, London,
December 2024, 324 p.
ISBN : 9781032906881
English text
This book examines Indo-Pacific issues from a Southeast Asian perspective and goes beyond discourses such as ASEAN–China or ASEAN–US–China. It analyses the new regional balances in the ASEAN and Indo-Pacific region at the diplomatic, strategic and economic levels while taking into account the ongoing uncertainty of the international order, reshaped by the post COVID-19 crisis and characterised by the increasingly adversarial China-US relations, the sensitive context of South China Sea and Taiwan crisis and the impact of the war between Russia and Ukraine. It highlights Indo-Pacific not only from a geostrategic angle but an economic one, considering ASEAN amidst competing connectivity strategies and integration challenges.
The book offers an inclusive outlook capturing diversity and convergence of strategies in a key region where the stage of tomorrow’s global order will be decided. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations and Area Studies, especially Southeast-Asian Studies and Indo-Pacific Studies.
—
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction (Thi Liên Claire Tran, Suthiphand Chirathivat, Prabir De)
PART I THE INDO-PACIFIC FROM SOUTHEAST ASIAN PERSPECTIVES : CENTRALITY AND MULTILATERALISM IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
Chapter 2 Positioning ASEAN in a Multipolar Indo-Pacific (Joefe B. Santarita)
Chapter 3 To Win Without Making Others Lose” : Understanding Indonesia’s Approach towards Indo-Pacific Discourse (Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad)
Chapter 4 ASEAN and the Indo-Pacific : A Strategic New Equilibrium for Thailand (Panitan Wattanayagorn & Tita Sanglee)
Chapter 5 Vietnam’s Perspective on the Indo-Pacific (Thi Liên Claire Tran)
Chapter 6 An Evolving Indo-Pacific Concept : A Cambodian Perspective (Cheunboran Chanborey and Chheang Vannarith)
Chapter 7 Myanmar’s Perspective on the Indo-Pacific (Chaw Chaw Sein)
PART II GEOPOLITICS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC : THE INTERSECTING INTERESTS OF OTHER MAJOR POWERS
Chapter 8 Divide and Rule : China’s Responses to the Various Indo-Pacific Initiatives and Its Changing Relations with the ASEAN (Jean Pierre Cabestan)
Chapter 9 Where ‘Act East’ Meets Indo-Pacific : Mapping India’s Eastward Engagement : Rahul Mishra
Chapter 10 Japan and the Indo-Pacific : Forging a Region (Guibourg Delamotte)
Chapter 11 US Strategy toward the Indo-Pacific : Is the United States Back ? (Murray Hiebert)
Chapter 12 Russia’s Foreign Policy Objectives and the Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (Igor Denisov and Danil Bochkov)
Chapter 13 France within the European Rediscovery of the Indo-Pacific (David Camroux)
PART III ASEAN AMIDST COMPETING CONNECTIVITY STRATEGIES AND INTEGRATION CHALLENGES
Chapter 14 Digital Connectivity in ASEAN : Opportunities and Challenges (Sineenat Sermcheep)
Chapter 15 India, ASEAN and the Quad : Economic Imperatives of the Indo-Pacific (Amita Batra)
Chapter 16 ASEAN’s Perspectives in Asia-Africa Growth Corridor Partnership in the Indo-Pacific Realm (Thi Anh-Dao Tran)
Chapter 17 Looking Ahead : Shifts in Global Geopolitical Trends 2030 – A Foresight Exercise (Piti Srisangnam)
Chapter 18 Between the Two Seas of Indo-Pacific : From Kra Isthmus to Thai Canal and Landbridge in Southern Thailand (Suthiphand Chirathivat and Charit Tingsabadh)
Index
Editors
Claire Thi Liên Tran is Historian of Contemporary Vietnam and Associate Professor at Université Paris Cité and Researcher at Cessma (Centre d’études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques).
Suthiphand Chirathivat is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Chulalongkorn University and co-executive editor of the Journal of Asian Economic Integration. He was the former Executive Director of ASEAN Studies Center and Chairman of Chula Global Network, Dean at the Faculty of Economics and Chairman of the Center for International Economics.
Prabir De is Professor at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, India.
