Category: Borders

• Charting India’s China Policy for the Next Decade

  How can India maximize its strengths in diplomatic and other arenas vis-à-vis China in a manner pushes forward the positive aspects of the bilateral relationship while simultaneously reducing chances for actual physical conflict of even a limited nature?

• Five-Party Talks to Guarantee Borders in South Asia

  A Five-Party Talks mechanism involving India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China and the US is essential to finding solutions to the problems of both terrorism and the Kashmir dispute

• Political Economy of Arunachal Pradesh in a Rising India

  Arunachal Pradesh’s disputed status, unique socio-cultural makeup and difficult geographic location have elicited multifaceted responses from Indian policymakers.

• Sino-Indian Relations at 60: Looking Ahead to the Next Decade

  2010 marked the sixtieth anniversary of established diplomatic relations between China and India. Despite the initial euphoria attached to the concept of “Chindia,” the bilateral relationship between China and India continues to face numerous challenges.

• ‘Beijing is far away’

  Studying centre-province and inter-province relationships in China from the perspective of the provinces, provides a new framework for analyzing political and economic developments in China. Four distinct phenomena deserve examination: localism, provincialism, regionalism and transnationalism.

• Border Provinces in Foreign Policy: China’s West and India’s Northeast

  China has given greater leeway in economic matters, to these provinces of the west under its Western Development Strategy (WDS). In India, too, there is greater attention being paid to connecting India’s Look East Policy (LEP), a foreign policy initiative, with the economic development of the Indian Northeast. Might the WDS and the LEP be…

• Guns, Blankets and Bird Flu

  The India-Myanmar border regions form a forgotten frontier in the Indian and global imagination but violence, trade and transnational challenges such as drug-trafficking and the spread of diseases have kept both a regional identity as well as specific community identities alive.

• Another Sino-Japanese spat

  If economic interdependence is insufficient for China to compromise on territorial issues with its smaller neighbours, the latter are unlikely to behave any differently.

• China-Pakistan Relations: Reinterpreting the Nexus

  “The Afghans they hate us, The Indians wanna bring us to our knees How long will it be Lord, till we piss off the Chinese I got the blues” Saad Haroon