This book assesses the strategic linkages that the Korean Peninsula shares with the Indo-Pacific and provides a succinct picture of issues which will shape the trajectory of the Korean Peninsula in the future.
This book analyses how critical actors such as the United States, China, Russia and Japan are caught in a tightly balanced power struggle affecting the Korean Peninsula. It shows how these countries are exerting control over the Korean Peninsula while also holding on to their status as critical actors in the broader Indo-Pacific. The prospects of peace, stability and unity in the Korean Peninsula and the impact of this on Indo-Pacific power politics are explored as well as the contending and competing interests in the region. Chapters present country-specific positions and approaches as case studies and review the impact of power politics on stakeholders’ relationships in the Indo-Pacific. The book also argues that the Korean Peninsula and the issue of denuclearization is of primary importance to any direction an Indo-Pacific Partnership may take.
Bringing together scholars, journalists and ex-diplomats, this book will be of interest to academics working in the field of international relations, foreign policy, security studies and Asian studies as well as audiences interested
This book aims to examine the scope and potential of India-Japan cooperation factoring infrastructure connectivity and corridors in Indo-Pacific. The volume examines the bilateral, trilateral and multilateral contours of the growing partnership in the backdrop of a rising China that is rapidly changing the geo-political order of the region. The volume examines the scope of India-Japan relations beyond 2025 and evaluates how their common pledge to have a “partnership for prosperity” is not free from challenges. China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the United States bilateral-oriented approach towards Asia, and the struggle to successfully conclude the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is testing the character of India-Japan relations which the volume covers at length.
The monograph portrays to understand and contribute to the strategic analyses of foreign, security and economic policy issues that are attached to the rise of BRICS. This is not only a study about BRICS per se; but is also about China and India, the two most vital powers of this grouping. This study has been written in Indian context, and has tried to delve into the China-India course within BRICS.
This book portrays how China's state transformation is taking place or moving without much notice through trial and error, which seems awfully cautious, balanced and systematic. Specially, it addresses the discourse of State transformation in China, contextualizing its progress and timely transformation in the military, civil-military, political and socio-economic terms.
The volume contains contributions by leading Asian analysts and Asia watchers on the theme of prospects for Asian integration. It discusses regionalism at the continental level and investigates overarching trends. It focuses on Asia's 'rise' and the key factors shaping the Asian regional order. The volume also provides valuable perspectives on Asia's sub-regions. Another salient feature of this volume is its coverage of increasingly significant non-traditional issues in the Asian context.
This book analyses the structure of the India–China relationship and the two prominent powers’ positions with and against each other, bilaterally and globally, in a complex Asian environment and beyond. India and China’s perceptions of one another are evaluated to reveal how the order of Asia is influenced by engaging in different power equations that affect equilibrium and disequilibrium.
Contributors address three critical perspectives of India and China in Asia which are increasingly shaping the future of Asia and impacting the Indo-Pacific power balance. First, they examine the mutual perceptions of India and China as an integral part of Asia’s evolving politics and the impact of this on the emerging Asian order and disorder. Second, they assess how classical and contemporary characteristics of the India–China boundary and beyond-border disputes or conflicts are shaping Asia’s political trajectory and leaving an impact on the Indo-Pacific region. Additionally, contributors observe the prevailing power equations in which India and China are currently engaged to reveal that they are not only geographically limited to the Asian region. Instead, having a strong global or intercontinental character attached to it, the India–China relationship involves extra-territorial powers and extra-territorial regions.
This book will be of interest to academics, students and policymakers working on Asian studies, international relations, area studies, emerging powers studies, strategic studies, security studies and conflict studies.
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's Expert's Opinion on ‘The New Indo-Pacific Bid’ has been published at the ISPI, Italy on 23 February 2022.
Dr Panda argues that Asia and Europe are inherently tethered by their common security interests, like global health, climate change, biodiversity and the protection of oceans, and great power rivalry. By excluding China and the US, the Indo-Pacific Forum, France is looking to initiate a substantive and progressive dialogue with Asia and the Indo-Pacific that is far removed from any great power dynamics but focused on concrete action that establish the EU (and especially France) as a credible partner for Asia in times to come.
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's article ‘Beyond North Korea: The Japan-South Korea-US Trilateral in the Indo-Pacific’ has been published in ‘The Diplomat’ on 23 February, 2022.
The article examines how does the Japan-South Korea-US trilateral shape Washington’s outlook towards the Indo-Pacific region as a whole? Will its focus remain concentrated on the dangers of the North Korean nuclear weapons program, via mechanisms like its Trilateral Coordination Oversight Group, or will it look to become a stabilizing platform for alliance politics in the Indo-Pacific?
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's co-authored paper ‘What Will Be the India-ROK Trajectory Post 2022 Presidential Elections?’ has been published as ‘Focus Asia’ at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) in Stockholm on 22, February 2022.
The paper argues that under its Act East Policy, New Delhi is increasingly concerned with peace and security in East Asia, including in the Korean Peninsula. Its existing and long-standing ties with Pyongyang can be an asset for Seoul to enable North-South exchanges that advance the peace process. Further, as South Korea faces increasing pressure to formulate an Indo-Pacific strategy amid heightening regional tensions (and considering its status as a formidable middle power), greater interaction with India and alignment with India’s inclusive approach and multipolar vision for the region will be vital. Such factors, alongside trade and economic growth considerations, will continue to drive India-South Korea engagement in the coming times, regardless of changes in leadership.
