TTLA: India's Act East Policy (2014 - 2020).

1. Full name of doctoral candidate: Nguyen Van Thang 2. Gender: Male
3. Date of birth: January 5, 1975 4. Place of birth: Hanoi
5. Decision on admission of doctoral students: according to Decision No. 3013/2019/QD-XHNV dated July 30, 2019, of the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
6. Changes to the training process (if any): Extension of the study period by 12 months (from July 2022 to June 2023).
7. Thesis title: India's Act East Policy (2014 - 2020).
8. Major: International Relations 9. Code: 9310601.01
10. Scientific supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hoang Khac Nam
11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:
11.1. Main Results: It can be affirmed that this thesis is the first systematic research work in Vietnam studying India's AEP during the period 2014-2020. Therefore, the thesis makes new contributions both scientifically and practically, as demonstrated through the following results:
- This thesis outlines the theoretical perspectives of various schools of thought regarding the formation and development of India's AEP, clarifying the concept and content of the foreign policy of middle-sized nations in international relations, and applying this to India's foreign relations with Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, the South Pacific, and vice versa.
- The thesis systematically and scientifically presents the objectives, content, and implementation process of India's AEP from 2014 to 2020. Through this, the thesis contributes to enriching the methodology in the study of India's foreign policy in general, India's AEP policy in particular, and the role and vision of Prime Minister N. Modi in putting this policy into practice and expanding India's influence.
- Thesisprefer to come outThis paper provides an objective and comprehensive review of the achievements and limitations in the process of adjusting India's Look East Policy (LEP) to the ASEAN Economic Community (AEP) under Prime Minister N. Modi, assessing the impacts of this adjustment on Southeast Asia and Vietnam, and forecasting the future prospects of the AEP.
- Based on that, the dissertation focused on analyzing the advantages, difficulties, opportunities, and challenges for Vietnam, thereby recommending solutions to improve the effectiveness of Vietnam's participation in India's AEP, in the context of Vietnam accelerating its international integration process, strengthening multilateral cooperation, and promoting the "Comprehensive Strategic Partnership" between Vietnam and India to become more substantive.
11.2. Conclusion:
Through research, the Indian AEP dissertation (2014-2020) demonstrated that the cooperation model within the AEP has undergone significant development in terms of scope, scale, and nature of cooperation with regions and partner countries compared to the LEP. This is a new issue in the context of Vietnamese research. By inheriting and incorporating relevant studies, as well as analyzing and presenting new arguments, the dissertation has made a significant contribution to providing an up-to-date and relevant perspective on India's AEP, a study that has not been undertaken before.
Building on a solid foundation of shared values ​​and achieved benefits, over the next 10 years, India will continue to vigorously and extensively deploy the ASEAN Economic Community (AEP) to Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, the South Pacific, and the entire Indo-Pacific region, potentially achieving more breakthroughs than in the past. India continues to value Vietnam's role and position, identifying Vietnam as a crucial pillar in the AEP to promote the "Comprehensive Strategic Partnership." This aligns with Vietnam's foreign policy of "making friends with all countries," presenting a good opportunity for Vietnam to balance its relations with major powers, effectively utilize the AEP framework to expand its relationship with India both in breadth and depth, exploit India's strengths, and contribute to its international integration process and its goal of becoming a modern industrialized, upper-middle-income developing country by 2030.
12. Future research directions: Continue to expand the scope of research on India's AEP, focusing on: India's efforts to achieve AEP goals through initiatives such as "Make in India," "Digital India," and "100 Smart Cities"; Expanding the scope of AEP to the Asia-Pacific region and integrating it with the regional policies of major powers (Australia, Japan, South Korea, and the United States); Investing resources (political, economic, and defense and security) to participate more deeply in mechanisms, institutions, and forums centered around ASEAN...
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11.1. The major results: It can be affirmed that the thesis is the first systematic study in Vietnam to study India's AEP in the period 2014 - 2020. Therefore, the thesis has new contributions in both science and practice. This is demonstrated by the following results:

- The thesis generalizes the theoretical perspectives of the commentaries on the formation and development of India's AEP, clarifies the concept and content of foreign policy of the middle country actor in internationalrelations appliedto India's external relations with Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia,South PacificOcean and vice versa.

ButThe thesis logically and scientifically explains in detail and comprehensively the objectives, content and process of India's AEP implementation in the period 2014 - 2020. Thereby, the thesis contributes to enriching the methodology in the mainresearch: India's foreign policy in general, India's AEP policy in particular and Prime Minister N. Modi's role and vision in putting this policy into practice and expanding India's influence.

- The thesis gives an objective and comprehensive comment on the achievements and limitations in the process of adjusting Look East Policy (LEP) into AEP of India under Prime Minister N.Modi. The thesis alsoeates the impacts of this adjustment to theEast region. SouthEast Asia and Vietnam, and forecast the prospects of AEP in the coming time.

- On that basis, the thesis has focused on analyzing advantages, difficulties, opportunities and challenges for Vietnam, thereby recommending solutions to improve efficiency when Vietnam joins India's AEP, in the context of Vietnam accelerating the process of international integration, strengthening multilateral cooperation, promoting the “comprehensive strategic” partnership between Vietnam and India into reality.

11.2. Conclusions:

- Through research, the thesis AEP of India (2014 - 2020), has proven that the cooperation model in AEP has made great strides in terms of scope, scale and nature of cooperation withVietnam: regions, as well as partner countries compared with LEP, this is a new issue in the research conditions of Vietnam. Through inheriting and absorbing relevant studies as well as analyzing and making new arguments, the thesis has made an important contribution in giving an updated and topical perspective on AEP. of India, whichnoearlier studies have been done

- On the basis of a solid foundation of common values ​​and benefits achieved, in the next 10month, India will continue to vigorously and extensively deploy AEP to Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, South Pacific and cover the entire Indo-Pacific region.  India continues to attach great importance to the role and position of Vietnam, identifying Vietnam as an important pillar in the AEP to promote the “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership” relationship. This is in line with Vietnam's foreign policy of “making friends with all countries”, and is a good opportunity to help Vietnam balance its relations between major countries, making good use of the AEP's own cooperation framework to open upthe world, expanding relations with India in both breadth and depth, in order to exploit the resources that India has strengths, serving the process of international integration and the goal of becoming a developing country with modern industry, Highaverage incomeby 2030.

12. Future research directions: Continuing to expand the scope of India's AEP research, focusing on: India accelerates the implementation of AEP goals, through the “Make in India”, “Digital India”, “100 Smart Cities”; Expand the scope of AEP to the Asia-Pacific region and converge and connect with regional policies of major countries (Australia, Japan, Korea, the US); Invest resources (foreign politics, economy, defense and security), to participate deeply in ASEAN-led mechanisms, institutions and forums...
13. Thesis-related publications: