Look East to Act East Policy Implications for India's Northeast [Hardcover]

This volume captures the success of Indias Look East Policy (LEP) in promoting economic engagement with neighbouring countries in Asia and simultaneously its limitations in propelling growth in the bordering North Eastern Region  Indias bridge head to South East Asia. It analyses the instrumental role of LEP in bringing a tectonic shift in Indias foreign trade by redirecting the focus from the West to the East, thus leading to a fundamental change in the nature of Indias economic interdependence. Besides discussing foreign trade, it expounds as to how LEP made India play an important role in the emerging Asian security architecture and liberated Indian foreign policy from being centred on South Asia. The essays also enumerate the reasons for LEPs failure in the North Eastern Region and chart out actionable programmes for course correction that might be factored into its latest edition  the Act East Policy.

This book will interest scholars and researchers of international relations, international trade and economics, politics, and particularly those concerned with Northeast India.

List of Tables. List of Figures. List of Maps. List of Abbreviations. List of Contributors.Introduction Part 1. Look East Policy and Regional Engagement 1. Look East Policy: Economic Engagement with ASEAN and East Asian Countries Gurudas Das, Subodh Ch Das and Ujjwal Paul 2.Re-thinking Indias Look-East Policy: Why to Engage China? Yang Xiaoping3. India-ASEAN Trade and Economic Relations: Ties That Bind Rahul Misra 4. The BCIM Forum: Is it Sustainable? Patricia Uberoi 5. Enhancing Connectivity for Mekong-India Economic Cooperation: Vietnam Perspective Nguyen Huy Hoang 6. Sub-Regional Diplomacy: An Imperative of Our Time Kishan S Rana 7. Indlc$