ID | 192909 |
Title Proper | Scoping an India-Japan Cooperative Framework for Africa |
Other Title Information | the ‘AAGC’ and Beyond |
Language | ENG |
Author | Parulekar, Dattesh D |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | The India-Japan mutuality has been acquiring steady salience through the 21st century, exuded in no small measure in the telegenic flourish of the nomenclatures, connoting engagement.1 Since late Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s clairvoyant averment of the ‘Confluence-of-the-Two-Seas’ schema in 2007,2 through to incumbent Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s recent seminal unveiling of the Indo-Pacific Vision, the purposeful choice of India as a venue for such defining articulations, is emblematic of Tokyo’s convictions about New Delhi as the veritable ‘indispensable partner’ across the trans-regional straddle, and in its extremities.3 However, whilst iconic infrastructure-built projects embody resplendent mutual equations, the visage of India-Japan cooperation and convergence across third countries, and extant sub-regions, remains heady in promise and teeming with possibilities; yet, in reality, is only incremental, and substantively underwhelming in performance. This ‘expectationsoutcomes’ disconnect is all the more galling when contextualised in both the protagonists’ deeply shared apprehensions over the coercive and predatory dimensions of Chinese strategic ascendancy. Both countries have espoused the need for a plural rules-based maritime order, and the chaperoning of a mercantilist and infrastructure development edifice which is anchored-in political transparency, financial rectitude, social consultation, and ecologically congruent actions, in the Indo-Pacific.4 |
`In' analytical Note | Indian Foreign Affairs Journals Vol. 17, No.1-2; Jan-Jun 2022: p.29-46
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Journal Source | Indian Foreign Affairs Journals 2022-06 17, 1-2 |
Key Words | Africa ; AAGC ; India-Japan Cooperative Framework |