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Whither India’s Northeast: Transition from Look East to Act East Policy
By Smitana Saikia (Assistant Professor, FLAME University, India)
India’s northeast region (NER) comprises of eight small states with a diverse ethno-linguistic population. The region is strategically located sharing over 5,300 km of international borders with China, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and Bangladesh. In early 1990s as a by-product of economic reforms, the Indian government aimed to foster increased economic integration and security cooperation with Southeast Asia as the latter came to be recognized as a key concern for India’s national interest. The northeast region was to be the gateway of this outreach and this outlook came to be known as the Look East Policy (LEP)….(for fulltext, please download AI-02)
Dr. Smitana Saikia is Assistant Professor of FLAME University, India. She can be reached via: smitana.saikia@flame.edu.in
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