Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Ms Shruti Pandalai’s commentary “Quad 2.0: Beyond ‘Not Making Choices’, Giving ASEAN a Slew of Options” has been published in Fulcrum, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, on May 17, 2021.
The piece argues that India’s grappling with the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic at home has only highlighted the need for greater “issue-based” coalitions in the Indo-Pacific and maybe the assurance that countries within the ASEAN need.