Southeast Asia Research Programme

Southeast Asia Research Programme

The IPCS Southeast Asia research programme, aims to promote research on Southeast Asia in India, map the existing nature and dynamics of India-Southeast Asia relations, and highlight current political, economic and security developments of mutual concern. It further seeks to provide a platform for greater deliberation among policy-makers and academics, and to generate a pool of well researched knowledge on various policies concerning India and Southeast Asia, through organizing events and publishing reports.

This Programme is supported by the SAEA Group, Singapore.

RECENT EVENTS

Southeast Asia in 2010s: Opportunities and Challenges for India:
5 March 2010

Inaugural Address: Amb Kishan S Rana
Panelists: Dr Shankari Sundararaman, Amita Batra, Srikanth Kondapalli, Amb Rajiv Sikri, Mr. Ravindran. The theme of this seminar was to assess Southeast Asia as a region in the next decade with a special reference to India's options and challenges.

India ASEAN FTA-The Road Ahead:
27 August 2009

Panelist: Dr. Amita Batra, SIS, JNU and Amb. A N Ram(former Indian ambassador to Thailand).Discussant: Amb. Rajiv Sikiri, formar Secretary(East), Ministry of External Affairs. This event was a forum where scholars and diplomatic personnel from both India and Southeast Asia addressed why the FTA took so long to be finalized and what the implications were for the economies of the two regions.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Synergizing Bangladesh in India's Look East Policy: Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia:

The Goal of India's Look East Policy can hardly be realized without support from Bangladesh which is the mid-path of the corridor between India and its Northeastern states and further on with Southeast Asia. Presently, the mood between India and Bangladesh is conducive to cultivating better relations.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Southeast Asia in the 2010’S: Opportunities and Challenges for India
Tuli Sinha and Harnit Kaur Kang
Special Report 88

India and Myanmar: Looking East through a Strategic Bridge
Harnit Kaur Kang
Issue Brief 144

Reviving the Stilwell Road: Challenges and Opportunities for India
Tuli Sinha
Issue Brief 143

Emergency in Thailand
Pankaj Jha portends a political crisis in Thailand motivated by a struggle for political power


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