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

Contents Introduction 1 Indias Northeast and Southeast Asia Opportunities and ChallengesAmita Batra 2 India?s Northeast The Super-highway to Southeast Asia Linking a Region Linking EconomiesWasbir Hussain 3 Connecting India?s Northeast With Southeast Asia Security ImplicationsBibhu Prasad Routray 4 India?s Northeast and Southeast Asia Chinese Interests and StrategiesSrikanth Kondapalli 5 Connecting the Neighbourhood India Bangladesh and the Problems of Regional connectivitySmruti S Pattanaik 6 Tensions in the Rolling Hills Burmese Population and Border Trade in MizoramJulien Levesque and Mirza Zulfiqur 7 Stilwell Road An Unfinished endeavourTuli Sinha 8 Myanmmar India?s Bridge to Southeast AsiaHarnit 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 Indias northeastThis book focuses on both the hurdles as well as prospects for greater partnership with Southeast Asian region through Indias northeast It delves into issues of connectivity free trade agreements security implications infrastructure regional geopolitics etc.…