India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are civilisational partners and belong to a shared geography. They not only share land and maritime borders, engagements between India and ASEAN have expanded from trade and investment to culture, science and technology, connectivity and sustainable development. The year 2022 marks the 30 years of partnership between ASEAN and India. In the last three decades, ASEAN and India have elevated their relations from the sectoral level to summit level to comprehensive strategic partnership level. The book entitled Thirty Years of ASEAN-India Relations: Towards Indo-Pacific, presents rich prescriptions for the future. It covers a wide range of topics in the fields of economics, geography, history, archaeology, international trade, tourism, migration, and infrastructure for transport. The authors of the chapters are from diverse fields of academic disciplines from India and the ASEAN. Published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of ASEAN-India relations, this book is a valuable resource for practitioners and scholars who are interested in economic integration. Contents Message from the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia Message from The Asia Foundation Preface List of Tables, Figures and Maps List of Abbreviations List of Contributors 1. Introduction Prabir De PART I: From Look East to Act East 2. ASEAN-India Relations at 30: Cooperation, Challenges and Prospects Sampa Kundu 3. India and ASEAN: Assessing the Economic Partnership in the New Decade Temjenmeren Ao PART II: Major Pillars of Cooperation Trade and Investment 4. ASEAN-India Economic Relations: The Unfolding of the Trade Sector Nida Rahman and Prabir De 5. Agricultural Trade between India and ASEAN: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities Komal Biswal and Prabir De 6. India-ASEAN Trade in Services: Prospects and Challenges Pralok Gupta 7. India’s Possible Trade Alignment with the Southeast Asia: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Impacts on Carbon Emissions Archana Srivastava and Somesh K. Mathur 8. Investment Relations between ASEAN and India Durairaj Kumarasamy 9. Does Economic Freedom Influence the FDI-Growth Nexus in ASEAN Economies? Md Gyasuddin Ansari and Rudra Sensarma Production Networks 10. ASEAN-India Global Value Chain Linkages: Trends and Opportunities Nida Rahman and Prabir De 11. Emerging Value Chain Opportunities Post-COVID-19 and India-ASEAN Relations Rupa Chanda Connectivity 12. Thirty Years of ASEAN-India Connectivity Prabir De 13. Land Ports in India’s Northeast as Gateways to Southeast Asia Samridhi Bimal Culture 14. Next Generation Cultural Relations between ASEAN and India: A Multi-dimensional Matrix Framework Sabyasachi Dutta and Sreya Pan Mitra 15. Cultural Ties between India and ASEAN in a Changing Era Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy 16. Beyond Borderlines: Safeguarding and Preservation of Shared Intangible Cultural Heritage between ASEAN and India Rajesh Dey PART III: New Areas of Cooperation 17. ASEAN-India Cooperation for an Equitable Global Economic Order Nitya Nanda 18. ASEAN-India Cooperation: Towards the Digital Economy Decade Nida Rahman and Arpita Mukherjee 19. ASEAN-India Cooperation and the Pandemic’s Push towards a Digital Economy: Impact and Policy Response Jayant Menon 20. Dealing with Climate Change: Enhanced Opportunities for India-ASEAN’s Transition towards Net-Zero Economy Venkatachalam Anbumozhi 21. Assessing ASEAN-India Future Cooperation Opportunities through the Sustainable Development Framework Melinda Martinus 22. Enhancing ASEAN-India Partnership in e-VBAB: Challenges, Opportunities and the Way Forward Sampa Kundu, Nida Rahman and Sreya Pan 23. Teaching International Relations through e-VBAB in ASEAN: Some Thoughts on Engaging Public Universities Ishani Naskar 24. ASEAN-India Cooperation in MSMEs Surendar Singh 25. India and ASEAN: Transcending Traditional and Non-Traditional Security Dichotomy Sanjay Pulipaka 26. India’s Development Partnership with IMT-GT: Identifying the Regional Cooperation Contours Prabir De, Sreya Pan and Nida Rahman PART IV: Way Forward 27. ASEAN-India Cooperation in Strengthening Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Debesh Lahiri and Apila Sangtam 28. Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI): Trade, Connectivity and Maritime Transport Prabir De 29. ASEAN Outlook on Indo-Pacific (AOIP) and the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI): Complementarities, Challenges and Opportunities Premesha Saha 30. Emerging Global Order and ASEAN-India in Indo-Pacific Prabir De About the Author: Prabir De, Professor and Coordinator, ASEAN-India Centre (AIC), Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi.