An Alternative Strategy for Southeast Asia : Looking Through India\'s Northeast

Contents: Introduction. 1. India\'s Northeast and Southeast Asia: Opportunities and Challenges/Amita Batra. 2. India’s Northeast: The Super-highway to Southeast Asia? Linking a Region, Linking Economies/Wasbir Hussain. 3. Connecting India’s Northeast With Southeast Asia: Security Implications/Bibhu Prasad Routray. 4. India’s Northeast and Southeast Asia: Chinese Interests and Strategies/Srikanth Kondapalli. 5. Connecting the Neighbourhood: India, Bangladesh and the Problems of Regional connectivity/Smruti S Pattanaik. 6. Tensions in the Rolling Hills: Burmese Population and Border Trade in Mizoram/Julien Levesque and Mirza Zulfiqur. 7. Stilwell Road: An Unfinished endeavour/Tuli Sinha. 8. Myanmmar: India’s Bridge to Southeast Asia/Harnit Kang. Annexure.

Southeast Asia is region that has in the past two decades, ascended to an area of great strategic importance for India both in terms of the Asian geopolitical balance but also as a nucleus of regional and international commerce. India’s Look East Policy which aims to foster deeper collaboration in a range of sectors with our Southeast Asian neighbors hopes to do so primarily through land based linkages with India\'s northeast.

This book focuses on both the hurdles as well as prospects for greater partnership with Southeast Asian region through India\'s northeast. It delves into issues of connectivity, free trade agreements, security implications, infrastructure, regional geopolitics etc.