Act East to Act Indo-Pacific: India’s Expanding Neighbourhood

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Prabir De Prabir De is a Professor at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, and also Head of the ASEAN-India Centre (AIC), RIS. He works in the field of international economics and has research interests in international trade and development. He was a Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO), Japan; Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo; and Visiting Senior Fellow of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Bangkok. He has been conducting policy research for the Government of India and several national and international organisations. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has contributed several research papers in international journals and written books on trade and development. His recent books include Twenty Years of BIMSTEC: Promoting Regional Cooperation and Integration in the Bay of Bengal Region (Knowledge World, 2018); Celebrating the Third Decade and Beyond: New Challenges to ASEAN–India Economic Partnership (Routledge, 2018); Myanmar’s Integration with the World: Challenges and Policy Options (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), etc. His research papers were published in several peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Economic Integration, Journal of Asian Economics, Contemporary South Asia, Journal of International Logistics and Trade, Maritime Economics & Logistics, Transportation Quarterly, Maritime Policy and Management, International Journal of Maritime Economics, Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Contemporary Asia-Pacific Studies, The Journal of the Korean Economy, Journal of Integration and Trade, Asian Development Review, Northeast Asian Economic Review, Foreign Trade Review, etc. He is also Editor of South Asia Economic Journal and the Founding Editor of the Journal of Asian Economic Integration, both published by Sage.