Look East to Act East Policy - 9781138100459

Name: Look East to Act East Policy - 9781138100459
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Look East to Act East PolicyImplications for India's Northeast\nAuthor(s): Gurudas Das, C. Joshua Thomas\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781138100459, 978-1138100459\nSynopsis\nThis 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 reaso.