This volume is part of a research programme on Indias ForeignPolicy at the Turn
of the Millennium: Forging New Partnerships inSouth-East Asia. As the strategic
and security issues have beenaddressed in the earlier volume, the present volume
dealsexclusively with economic issues. It comprises eight contributions,and is
the result of a second workshop organized in New Delhi inApril 2001. In this
connection the authors examine the potentialfor increased economic relations
between India and ASEAN, as wellas the manner in which the structural problems
of the Indianeconomy could undermine these relations. The various essays
alsoseek to draw some lessons for India from the Asian financialcrisis. With an
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