South Asian regional cooperation
- SAARC’s consensus model
- SAARC Secretariat’s coordinating role
- Bilateral rivalry as a constraint on SAARC
- BIMSTEC’s bridge between South and Southeast Asia
- BIMSTEC’s sectoral cooperation model
- Regional transport connectivity under BIMSTEC
- SAARC excludes bilateral and contentious issues from deliberations
- The BIMSTEC Summit provides supreme decision-making authority
- BIMSTEC foreign ministers coordinate cooperation and implementation
- BIMSTEC national focal points connect regional and domestic implementation
- BIMSTEC decisions rest on consensus
- BIMSTEC cooperation complements other regional arrangements