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Strategic Relevance Without Reach: India’s Lagging Engagement with ASEAN
The 2025 edition of the State of Southeast Asia Survey Report, published by the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, highlights India’s growing strategic importance in the region. Drawing on the responses of Southeast Asian opinion leaders—including policymakers, academics, business professionals, civil society…
India and Vietnam Can Do More to Leverage Their Complementarities
On July 30 and August 1 of this year, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited India in an effort to advance a unique relationship driven by shared strategic concerns over China's growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific. In recent years,…
Assessing India’s SAGAR Plan: Challenges Override Prospects
In recent years, India has moved away from its history of sea-blindness, and has been revitalizing its economic and strategic interests in the neighboring maritime domain for regional peace, prosperity, and progress. This commitment to “collective concerns for the global…
UNSC Resolution 2669 and the Future of the Myanmar Crisis
On February 1, 2021, the Myanmar military staged a coup against the elected civilian government, the National League for Democracy (NLD), and declared a national state of emergency. People across Myanmar took to the streets to protest and demand the restoration…
The Pitfalls of Great-Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific
Few would disagree that the term “Indo-Pacific” has now found a front-and-center place in diplomatic lexicon and geo-strategic thinking across regional and extra-regional countries, almost replacing the longstanding “Asia-Pacific” conceptualization of the region. The intellectual roots of the term can…
Myanmar’s Divided State Leaves Thousands of its People in the Lurch
More than ten months after the coup and a protracted conflict that has produced a political and military stalemate, the struggle in Myanmar now extends to a battle for diplomatic recognition from multilateral global institutions, including the United Nations and…