INDIA NEW INTEREST IN SOUTHEAST-ASIA

On account of its potential and sheer size India ranks as one of the most important countries in Asia. Its foreign policy reorientation, therefore, which was necessitated by the end of the Cold War, has major international significance. The issues involved were already illuminated by Citha D. Maass in issue 1/1993 of this journal. In this issue, Juergen Rueland, who lectures in political science at the University of Rostock examines the country's relations to the Southeast Asian region, which is developing rapidly both economically and politically. His analysis is based to a substantial extent on research and discussions during a ten-week study mission in Southeast Asia in autumn 1994.