India has been engaging the South East Asian nations actively as a result of its ‘Look Policy’ started in 1990. and ASEAN have mutual interests wide range areas which include Commerce, Tourism, Foreign Affairs, Renewable Energy Telecommunications, Agriculture, Energy. It indicates deepening strengthening friendship ASEAN. In this context, present study attempts to throw light upon evolution Ind...

Herbert Wulf (ed.): Still Under Construction: Regional Organisationsʹ Capacities for Conflict Prevention. Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg‐Essen (INEF‐ Report, 97/2009). The international community has progressively tasked regional and sub‐regional organisations with conflict prevention and peacekeeping. This is largely due to an overburdened UN system. At th...

In this paper, we present a research framework with data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to evaluate a nation’s technology efficiency and effectiveness in ASEAN countries. The study proposes two outputs, patents and licenses (PL) and technology exports (TE) along with three inputs, information and communication technology (ICT), R&D (RD), and governance capability (GC) in the model. Buildin...

Over the past few decades the brisk development of information and communication technologies (ICT) has had a phenomenal impact on the economic stability and development of many countries. Empirical studies show that most developed economies have gained significant payoffs (in terms of economic growth) from their ICT investments. This study investigates the hypothesis that ICT-based investment ...

Using indicator-based assessment, this study examines the energy security of nine Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries to see how it has evolved over the past 12 years and identifies a country-specific energy security context for each country. The assessment uses 42 energy security indicators, which can be separated into five components: overall energy balance, socio-...

Present energy situation of the world is unsustainable due to unequal geographical distribution of natural wealth as well as environmental, geopolitical and economical concerns. Ever increasing drift of energy consumption due to growth of population, transportation and luxurious lifestyle has motivated researchers to carry out research on biofuel as a sustainable alternative fuel for diesel eng...