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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The 'Look East Policy' (LEP) of India is essentially an integral endeavour professing India's renewed thrust at cultivating cooperative relations with its South East and East Asian neighbours, wherein China has an immensely crucial role to play. China's pioneering imprint in South East Asia was in fact, a re-awakening call for India to foster closer ties with its South East Asian neighbours. The end of the Cold War ushered in certain geo-economic reorientations in inter-state dynamics. With the centre of gravity predominantly shifting towards the Asia-Pacific region, the foreign policy maneuvers of both India and China had undergone substantive revisions. More pertinently, Beijing's increasing assertiveness in the Asia-Pacific Region instigated India to reformulate the theoretical postulates of its foreign policy. A wave of competitive ardour generated by the process of globalization promoted the relevance of regionalism, thereby leading to the burgeoning importance of regional organisations like ASEAN. In this context India and China's relative proximities to the ASEAN member countries pose to be the focal-point of an insightful as well as objective investigation and academic research.
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