Tag: Northeast India

• Book Review: India-Southeast Asia-China Triangular Dynamics

  Originally published as Jabin T. Jacob, ‘Insights on a Triangular Relationship’, The Book Review, Vol. XLI, No. 12, December 2017, 12-13. Amitav Acharya. East of India, South of China: Indian Encounters in Southeast Asia (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017). Karen Stoll Farrell and Sumit Ganguly (eds) Heading East: Security, Trade, and Environment between India…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  15 January 2018

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  1962 Sino-Indian conflict, ASEAN, Asian regionalism, Bandung, Brahmaputra river, Chinese foreign policy, democracy, environment, hegemony, Indian foreign policy, Jawaharlal Nehru, Myanmar, Northeast India, physical connectivity, Zhou Enlai

• People-to-People Connectivity in the BCIM Region: Principles and Practicalities

  Successful people-to-people movement requires good physical and communication infrastructure and modernized identification procedures at borders or within countries

  Jabin T. Jacob

  31 May 2014

  Borders, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism

  BCIM, border trade, Indian foreign policy, Indian states, infrastructure development, Northeast India, sub-nationalism

• Infrastructure Development along India’s Borders with China

  Indian infrastructure development in its border areas is a complex mix of national security considerations, political gamesmanship and economic rent-seeking

  Jabin T. Jacob

  9 March 2014

  Borders, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism, War and Conflict

  1962 Sino-Indian conflict, Arunachal Pradesh, boundary dispute, dam construction, environment, Indian foreign policy, infrastructure development, Ladakh, Northeast India, Sino-Indian relations, Tibet

• India and Myanmar: Some Chinese Perceptions and Linkages

  China’s and India’s relations with Myanmar are complicated by sub-national interests and some of the results of Manmohan Singh’s recent visit to Naypyitaw reflect this reality.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  13 June 2012

  Borders, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism

  border trade, democracy, ethnic insurgencies, Myanmar, Northeast India, Sino-Indian relations, Yunnan

• Integrating the Outlier: Arunachal Pradesh as Development Project and Dilemma

  Arunachal Pradesh’s disputed status, unique socio-cultural makeup and difficult geographic location have elicited multifaceted responses from Indian policymakers. How has this Indian ‘development agenda’ affected and molded the political economy of Arunachal Pradesh and what does it say about the role and place of Arunachal in the Indian political system and imagination?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  27 November 2011

  Borders, Sub-nationalism

  1962 Sino-Indian conflict, Arunachal Pradesh, boundary dispute, infrastructure development, Look East Policy, Northeast India, Sino-Indian relations, sub-nationalism

• Learning Chinese, Understanding China

  A presentation, I made at the Department of Chinese Language, Foreign Languages Wing, Army Education Corps Training College and Centre in Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh in early July 2011.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  20 September 2011

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism, War and Conflict

  border trade, boundary dispute, Chinese provinces, Indian foreign policy, infrastructure development, Look East Policy, Northeast India, PLA, Sino-Indian relations, Tibet, Xinjiang

• 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…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  2 September 2011

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism

  Chinese provinces, Indian foreign policy, infrastructure development, Look East Policy, Myanmar, Northeast India, Sino-Indian relations, Southeast Asia, Tibet, Western Development Strategy

• 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.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  2 September 2011

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism, War and Conflict

  disease spread, ethnic insurgencies, illegal trade, Myanmar, Northeast India, regional integration

• A Parliament for Northeast India

  Northeast India requires a regional parliament that will function within the ambit of the Indian Constitution but will aim to give the region a weight that is more than the sum of its parts.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  1 September 2011

  Borders, Political Parties, Sub-nationalism

  Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), ethnic insurgency, Indian Constitution, Northeast India, regional parliament