Dr. Sriparna Pathak is Professor of China Studies and founding Director of the Centre for Northeast Asian Studies in the Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA) of O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Haryana, India. She also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Jindal India Institute. Her previous work experience covers universities such as Gauhati University and Don Bosco University; the Ministry of External Affairs; think tanks like the Observer Research Foundation and the Centre for Armed Forces Historical Research in New Delhi. She is also associated with Taiwan’s Doublethink Lab and works on tracking China’s influence operations.Dr. Monojit Das is an independent geopolitical analyst.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Italy and the Quad: Functional Cooperation and Latent Opportunities.- Chapter 3: Vietnam’s Participation in QUAD Plus: Strategic Motivations and Impacts on the Security Architecture of the South China Sea.- Chapter 4: Beyond Bilateral: India, France and the Multilateral Security Architecture of the Indo-Pacific.- Chapter 5: Analysing India-Japan Relations: The Emergence of the Quad and Maritime Diplomacy.- Chapter 6: Cooperating for Comprehensive Security in Indo Pacific: India and Australia in Quad.- Chapter 7: Analysing the role of QUAD 2.0 as a Heterarchical Regional Security Complex in Countering the Rise of China.- Chapter 8: Role of External Actors in the Indo-Pacific: Case of Cross-Strait Relations.- Chapter 9: Critical Minerals and the Quad: Navigating the Trump- Xi Truce.- Chapter 10: Quad Plus 3: A Blueprint for an Expanded Indo-Pacific Security Architecture.- Chapter 11: Future Engagement between the QUAD and ASEAN: Domestic Politics Constrain Inter-Group Regional Engagement.- Chapter 12: Quad lite or Anglosphere plus? Making sense of UK engagements with the Quad ‘network’ in the Indo-Pacific.- Chapter 13: Harmony or Hegemony? The Quad Through the Lens of Chinese Strategic Culture.- Chapter 14: Navigating Strategic Realities: Chinese Perspectives on the QUAD Alliance.- Chapter 15: Is QUAD the NATO of Asia? The Myth versus the Reality.- Chapter 16: Conclusion.

Dr. Sriparna Pathak is Professor of China Studies and founding Director of the Centre for Northeast Asian Studies in the Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA) of O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Haryana, India. She also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Jindal India Institute. Her previous work experience covers universities such as Gauhati University and Don Bosco University; the Ministry of External Affairs; think tanks like the Observer Research Foundation and the Centre for Armed Forces Historical Research in New Delhi. She is also associated with Taiwan’s Doublethink Lab and works on tracking China’s influence operations.Dr. Monojit Das is an independent geopolitical analyst.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Italy and the Quad: Functional Cooperation and Latent Opportunities.- Chapter 3: Vietnam’s Participation in QUAD Plus: Strategic Motivations and Impacts on the Security Architecture of the South China Sea.- Chapter 4: Beyond Bilateral: India, France and the Multilateral Security Architecture of the Indo-Pacific.- Chapter 5: Analysing India-Japan Relations: The Emergence of the Quad and Maritime Diplomacy.- Chapter 6: Cooperating for Comprehensive Security in Indo Pacific: India and Australia in Quad.- Chapter 7: Analysing the role of QUAD 2.0 as a Heterarchical Regional Security Complex in Countering the Rise of China.- Chapter 8: Role of External Actors in the Indo-Pacific: Case of Cross-Strait Relations.- Chapter 9: Critical Minerals and the Quad: Navigating the Trump- Xi Truce.- Chapter 10: Quad Plus 3: A Blueprint for an Expanded Indo-Pacific Security Architecture.- Chapter 11: Future Engagement between the QUAD and ASEAN: Domestic Politics Constrain Inter-Group Regional Engagement.- Chapter 12: Quad lite or Anglosphere plus? Making sense of UK engagements with the Quad ‘network’ in the Indo-Pacific.- Chapter 13: Harmony or Hegemony? The Quad Through the Lens of Chinese Strategic Culture.- Chapter 14: Navigating Strategic Realities: Chinese Perspectives on the QUAD Alliance.- Chapter 15: Is QUAD the NATO of Asia? The Myth versus the Reality.- Chapter 16: Conclusion.

Dr. Sriparna Pathak is Professor of China Studies and founding Director of the Centre for Northeast Asian Studies in the Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA) of O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Haryana, India. She also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Jindal India Institute. Her previous work experience covers universities such as Gauhati University and Don Bosco University; the Ministry of External Affairs; think tanks like the Observer Research Foundation and the Centre for Armed Forces Historical Research in New Delhi. She is also associated with Taiwan’s Doublethink Lab and works on tracking China’s influence operations.Dr. Monojit Das is an independent geopolitical analyst.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Italy and the Quad: Functional Cooperation and Latent Opportunities.- Chapter 3: Vietnam’s Participation in QUAD Plus: Strategic Motivations and Impacts on the Security Architecture of the South China Sea.- Chapter 4: Beyond Bilateral: India, France and the Multilateral Security Architecture of the Indo-Pacific.- Chapter 5: Analysing India-Japan Relations: The Emergence of the Quad and Maritime Diplomacy.- Chapter 6: Cooperating for Comprehensive Security in Indo Pacific: India and Australia in Quad.- Chapter 7: Analysing the role of QUAD 2.0 as a Heterarchical Regional Security Complex in Countering the Rise of China.- Chapter 8: Role of External Actors in the Indo-Pacific: Case of Cross-Strait Relations.- Chapter 9: Critical Minerals and the Quad: Navigating the Trump- Xi Truce.- Chapter 10: Quad Plus 3: A Blueprint for an Expanded Indo-Pacific Security Architecture.- Chapter 11: Future Engagement between the QUAD and ASEAN: Domestic Politics Constrain Inter-Group Regional Engagement.- Chapter 12: Quad lite or Anglosphere plus? Making sense of UK engagements with the Quad ‘network’ in the Indo-Pacific.- Chapter 13: Harmony or Hegemony? The Quad Through the Lens of Chinese Strategic Culture.- Chapter 14: Navigating Strategic Realities: Chinese Perspectives on the QUAD Alliance.- Chapter 15: Is QUAD the NATO of Asia? The Myth versus the Reality.- Chapter 16: Conclusion.