From looks to action
Subtitle: Thailand-India strategic convergence and defence cooperation
By: Sasiwan Chingchit
Contributors: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
Series: IDSA occasional paper -- No. 40; IDSA occasional paper -- No. 40.
Publisher: Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9789382169543
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Military relations
Other titles: Thailand-India strategic convergence and defence cooperation
Description: For more than six decades, Indo-Thai bilateral cooperation concentrated on education, culture, and technical exchanges. After India's Look East and Thailand's Look West policies coincided in  1990's, the cooperation between the two countries gained a new momentum in the last few years. The strategic transformation of Indo-Pacific region and the political changes within Myanmar now provide a new background for Thailand and India to step up their relations in every respect, including defence cooperation. The paper  argues that with the increasing strategic significance of each party, Thailand-India defence relations remain a weak link which does not correspond to the new strategic context, and which requires attention and improvement.
Notes: "May 2015."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: India in Thailand's strategic vision.; title: India's rising strategic profile in Southeast Asia.; title: The untapped potential of defence cooperation.; title: Looking ahead: acting out the potential.; title: Annexure.