Northeastern India and Its Neighbours - Negotiating Security and Development

This book explores - through extensive fieldwork - the link between development and security, critical to India's Northeast, within the context of the cross-border space it shares with China, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal. For a long-term sustainable solution to serious issues that include illegal migration and militancy, it proposes forging economic initiatives/collaborations and addressing connectivity problems.

List of contents

Introduction. 1. Security and Development: Understanding the Relationship 2. ‘China Factor’ and India’s Frontier 3. ‘Myanmar Situation’ and India’s Northeast 4. ‘Bangladesh’s Transition’ and India’s Borderland 5. ‘Nepal Issue’ and India East and Northeast 6. ‘Peaceful Bhutan’ and Northeast India’s Hope. Epilogue: From Conflict to Co-operation. Bibliography

About the author

Rakhee Bhattacharya is Associate Director/Fellow, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi.

Product details

• Authors: Rakhee Bhattacharya, Bhattacharya Rakhee
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2014
• EAN: 9781138795334
• ISBN: 978-1-138-79533-4
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Transition in Northeastern India
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, International Relations, India, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies