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125242
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The author has tried to locate the connectivity of ASEAN-India and Myanmar. Myanmar sighted that India is an essential dialogue partner of ASEAN and is playing a crucial role in regional peace and stability. A very important observation is that Myanmar and India's North-Eastern region share similar conditions when compared to ASEAN and mainland India, respectively. For India, Myanmar is strategically important because of its geostrategic location, linking the regions of East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
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125236
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India and Myanmar both have historical and cultural links since ancient times. Myanmar's criticality for India has been variously defined, mostly referring to the "shared historical, ethnic, cultural and religious ties." In real terms, both countries share a 1643 kilometre-long land border. A large population of Indian origin people, estimated to be in the range of 2.5 million, lives in Myanmar. Four of India's north-eastern states, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram, are geographically contiguous to Myanmar.
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125241
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2013.
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The above quotation decodes that President Thein Sein logically identified three most serious concerns of contemporary Myanmar - legacy of the long army rule, unremitting armed violence and economic stagnation - in his speech in front of the leading business and political figures of the world. In fact, one can make these three causes responsible for Myanmar's transformation from one of the brightest economies to an embarrassment for Southeast Asia, in the first six decades of independence.
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125237
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2013.
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Myanmar has two great and powerful neighbours, India to the Northwest and China to the Northeast. It has Bangladesh to the West, Laos to the East and Thailand to South East. Myanmar's long coastline with good harbors enables it to dominate the Bay of Bengal. Myanmar Shares 2171 kilometres Long border with China whereas with India it shares 1643 kilometres of border. Myanmar lies where South, South East and Asia meet - there the dominant cultures of these sub-regions compete for influence.
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125246
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2013.
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As we proceed towards an Indo-centric study in international relations, Myanmar, officially known as the Republic of the Union of Myanmar has a very crucial role to play. Myanmar, which is located to the south of the northeastern states of India, is India's only land bridge to Southeast Asia. India has a long historical relationship with Myanmar including cultural, economic and diplomatic relations since Myanmar's independence in 1948. As Burma was previously a province of India so, due to cultural links, flourishing commerce, common interests in regional affairs and the presence of a significant Indian community in Burma, Indo-Burmese relations have been strong for many years.
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125232
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2013.
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Myanmar is opening itself to the world. Gradually, the Military 'Junta' has come to terms and decided to accommodate the democratic voices of people. But there is a long journey ahead before things can be better placed. The lengthy serpentine rule of military for more than five decades did not allow the institutions to germinate and take proper shape. It resulted in multiple vices in terms of managing a state order in a nation-state. One after the other, challenges became obnoxious in a liberal military rule.
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125231
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2013.
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India and Myanmar have been enjoying the mutual contact in the field of trade, commerce, religion, law, political philosophy and culture. The British Raj was making its control over two lands for years together. Myanmar got its independence and India was also freed from the shackles of British rule on 15th Aug, 1947. Nehru and U Nu developed a friendship that created the foundation of good Indo- Burmese relation. When India supported pro-democracy movement and criticized the ruling military Junta in Myanmar, the relation between two nations came down. However, in 1990s, the relation between two countries restored again. They are co-operating in all fields including countering insurgency on the border, checking narcotics smuggling across the border, sharing intelligence on a real-time basis, promoting trade and investment. There are four important factors such as cultural, political, economic and security that involve relations with Myanmar.
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125247
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2013.
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India, Bangladesh and Myanmar are three neighbouring countries who along with sharing borders have also shared a colonial legacy under the British. They were controlled and administered from New Delhi and had stationed British officers and its Army at various posts. These three countries share the rich and fertile land of Brahmaputra basin where one of the largest rivers flows. They have similar geographical terrains, temperature, climatic conditions, soil, fauna and flora.
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125244
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2013.
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A new world order emerged in the 1990s as the Soviet Union, India's staunchest ally, collapsed and disintegrated, and the Cold War came to an end. India felt constrained "to explore other options, both regionally and globally, in search of preserving and promoting its economic and strategic interests and there, the eastern neighbours offered a promising area of engagement" (Muni, 2011:5).
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125229
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2013.
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To make India's 'Look East Policy' more effective and fruitful, engagement with Myanmar becomes vital, as its location is such that it can prove to be a bridge between India and the ASEAN. Though India-Myanmar relationship dates back to the era of great Indian king Asoka but due to the weaker kings in the subsequent centuries, we find the invisibility of relationship between the two countries. In recent years both the countries have realized the urgency of a close and operative relationship and thus they are putting every effort to take it forward to new heights. India is engaged in Myanmar in many ways whether it is humanitarian aid and assistance or the development of infrastructural project or industries or in providing training to IT professionals etc. Apart from this, India is providing aid to Myanmar for different purposes. Myanmar has allowed Indian firms to engage in energy sector such as natural oil and gas and also in the field of hydropower. It is extremely important for India as India is an energy-scarce country and to have energy security, India has to look beyond the west Asian countries and thus, Myanmar becomes vital.
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125234
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2013.
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India's Myanmar policy and its shift from an idealist position to one that is driven by pragmatism is a subject matter of much importance today as regards the success of India's rejuvenated 'Look East Policy'. Considering the reasons for the policy change, the article examines as to how far the policy is adequate for fulfilment of India's objectives in that country. But, above all, India has to maintain a cordial relationship with Myanmar's newly elected civilian government headed by President Thein Sein to extend its influence in Southeast Asia and also due to internal security concerns of its north-eastern states, which are under continuous threat from various insurgent groups.
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125227
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2013.
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Myanmar is going through an unprecedented politico-economical and socio-cultural transformation, especially after the November 2010 general elections. The new military-backed, quasi-civilian government under the leadership of President Thein Sein of Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) advocated a reformist agenda namely, reached out to the Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK), established the National Human Rights Commission, implemented a new labour law in consultation with the International Labour Organisation, relaxed restrictions on the media, allowed some economic liberalisation and released hundreds of political prisoners.
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125225
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2013.
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A largely rural, densely-forested country, Myanmar is the world's largest exporter of teak and a principal source of jade, pearls, rubies and sapphires. It has highly fertile soil and important offshore oil and gas deposits. Little of this wealth reaches the mass of the population. The economy is one of the least developed in the world, and is suffering the effects of decades of stagnation, mismanagement, and isolation. Key industries have long been controlled by the military, and corruption is rife. The military has also been accused of large-scale trafficking in heroin, of which Burma is a major exporter. The European Union, United States and Canada imposed economic sanctions on Myanmar.
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125239
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2013.
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Contemporary Indian foreign policy focuses on the promotion of her economic interests for which she believes that securing security within her immediate neighbourhood is extremely important. Further economic and military security combined together can only aid in India's rise in the game of international power politics. India not only shares land and maritime boundaries with eight countries- Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, but also shares close historical, linguistic, religious, ethnic and cultural relationships. Hence, one of the cornerstones of India's stated foreign policy, though not a notably successful one to date, has been to build a strategically secure, politically stable, harmonious and economically cooperative neighbourhood. Moreover in the present era improving connectivity linkages with the neighbouring countries has assumed a singular dimension in India's neighbourhood diplomacy.
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125230
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2013.
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The 'Look East Policy' (LEP) of India is essentially an integral endeavour professing India's renewed thrust at cultivating cooperative relations with its South East and East Asian neighbours, wherein China has an immensely crucial role to play. China's pioneering imprint in South East Asia was in fact, a re-awakening call for India to foster closer ties with its South East Asian neighbours. The end of the Cold War ushered in certain geo-economic reorientations in inter-state dynamics. With the centre of gravity predominantly shifting towards the Asia-Pacific region, the foreign policy maneuvers of both India and China had undergone substantive revisions. More pertinently, Beijing's increasing assertiveness in the Asia-Pacific Region instigated India to reformulate the theoretical postulates of its foreign policy. A wave of competitive ardour generated by the process of globalization promoted the relevance of regionalism, thereby leading to the burgeoning importance of regional organisations like ASEAN. In this context India and China's relative proximities to the ASEAN member countries pose to be the focal-point of an insightful as well as objective investigation and academic research.
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125245
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2013.
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Apparently, in the existing global scenario of multilateralism and rapid transformation of the structural identity of nations, regional or sub-regional groupings are no longer a matter of selection, but the need of the hour. In addition to this, the swift advancement of communication facilities, shortening of distance and transforming of borders into gateways is the new occurrence everywhere. In the last decade, India has exposed dedicated attention in the formation of sub-regional alignments. Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a prominent example of it.
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