India-Southeast Asian relations, though longstanding historically, have only begun to blossom in the last decade or so. This is most discernible in the area of defence. Beginning with low-level intermittent bilateral exchanges in the 1970s and 1980s, since India's 'Look East Policy' in the early 1990s, this has now developed and matured rapidly on multiple fronts, both bilaterally and multilaterally. India's membership in the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ ...
