India-Korea Connections in the Indo-Pacific

Jagannath Panda is the Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo‑Pacific Affairs (SCSA‑IPA) at the ISDP, Sweden. He is also a Professor in the Department of Regional and Global Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and a Senior Fellow at The Hague Center for Strategic Studies in the Netherlands. He is the Series Editor for Routledge Studies on Think Asia.Choong Yong Ahn is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Chung‑Ang University, South Korea. He served as President of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, Chair of the APEC Economic Committee, Foreign Investment Ombudsman, Co‑chair of the Presidential Regulatory Reform Committee, and Chairman of the Korea Commission of Corporate Partnership and has written extensively on East Asian economic integration and comparative development models. His book, South Korea and Foreign Direct Investment: Policy Dynamics and Aftercare Ombudsman, has just been published by Routledge.

• Part I: Institutional Interactions and the Indo-Pacific 1. Envisioning South Korea’s Indo-Pacific Policy: From Hedging to Bold Diplomacy; 2. Korea-India Cooperation in the Era of Geopolitical Competition: A Korean Perspective; 3. Seoul in India’s Indo-Pacific Framework: Bridging Strategic Imperatives Part II: Economic Bilateralism and Minilateralism 4. South Korea-India Cooperation in Trade and New Supply Chains: Challenges and Opportunities; 5. Strategic Promotion of ROK-India FDI in the ROK’s Indo-Pacific Vision: Bilateralism, Minilateralism, and Regionalism; 6. India-South Korea Cooperation in the Arms Industry Sector Part III: Minilateral Frameworks in the Indo-Pacific 7. India and South Korea: Navigating Common Nuclear Threats from China, Pakistan and North Korea; 8. Middle Power Connectivity in Indo-Pacific: Leading the way to a new Indo-Pacific Minilateral; 9. Strengthening India-South Korea Strategic Complementarity: Via, Within and Beyond the Potential of a Quad Plus; Index