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India and ASEM: From Membership to Active Engagement

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This chapter examines India’s decade-long quest for membership of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), which represents an interesting case study of identity and exclusion of a major Asian country from a key interregional forum. it highlights how New Delhi’s purposeful and constructive Look East Policy since the early 1990s facilitated membership of ASEM in 2007. It evaluates India’s decade-long engagement with ASEM and the importance it attaches to the forum. It goes on to examine Indian media and elite perceptions of ASEM. It concludes that even after two decades, ASEM remains a forum for broad dialogue rather than problem-solving or practical cooperation.

This chapter is an expanded and updated version of the article originally published in India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 69(4) Copyright © 2013 Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA). All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the copyright holders and the publishers, SAGE Publications India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.

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  1. 1.

    In January 1992, India became a sectoral dialogue partner for tourism, commerce, investments and science and technology, a full dialogue partner in December 1995, a member of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in July 1996, and annual ‘ASEAN plus One’ summit-level dialogue since December 2002.

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    The solitary article on ASEM that has been published in Indian scholarly journals on international affairs remains Naidu 1998.

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    This was agreed by Japanese Prime Minister Ryataro Hashimoto and British Prime Minister John Major at a bilateral meeting on 2 March 1996 on the sidelines of the Bangkok summit. ‘Japan: Hashimoto, Major agree to add more ASEM Members’, Kyoto, 2 March 1996.

  4. 4.

    See Introduction of the Chairman’s Statement: The Second Asia–Europe Meeting, London, 3–4 April 1998.

  5. 5.

    There are four coordinators of ASEM—one each for the European Union and European Commission (which do it jointly) and ASEAN and NESA on the Asian side. The four Coordinators hold regional meetings among their respective groups followed by a special meeting of the four coordinators to put things together before the summit. They agree on a draft after consulting all other members—which is the combined wisdom of the four Coordinators—will be discussed who have in turn consulted all their members. But even so, individual countries would then be free to comment later. ASEM, therefore, works through the European and the Asian sides coordinating among themselves through their respective Coordinators. Reddy 2010.

  6. 6.

    Conversation with ASEM Director, European Commission, 10 December 2008.

  7. 7.

    These included (1) First ASEM Roundtable on ‘Energy Efficiency in Green Buildings’ (Hyderabad, 5 September 2014); (2) Second ASEM Roundtable (Gandhinagar, November 2015); (3) an ASEM Workshop on ‘Cooperation between Asia and Europe in Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Medical Devices Sector’ (New Delhi, 20 November 2014); (4) a Roundtable on ‘Innovations in Technologies for Disaster Rescue Efforts amongst ASEM countries’ (New Delhi, 4–5 December 2014); (5) a Workshop on ‘Towards Efficient and Sustainable Water Management through partnership amongst ASEM Countries’ (New Delhi, 27 February 2015) (Singh 2014).

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