The paper provides a rigorous analysis of ASEAN-India economic, trade and integration relations and presents evidence-based scenarios and policy options for improving these relations in the context of ‘Look East’ policy, ‘economic diplomacy’, globalisation and post-global financial...

The signing of the long-awaited Australia-Thailand free trade agreement (ATFTA) on 19 October 2003 at the APEC Meeting in Bangkok, the emergence of new Asian regionalisms such as ASEAN+1 (China) and ASEAN+3 (China, Korea and Japan), and other bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral FTAs...

Success of recent developments in Asian economic regionalism and free trade agreements depends to some significant extent on the continuing role and importance of trade of these economies with themselves and also with the world's major trading blocs. The paper reviews especially the case of...