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138328
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In the spring of 1988 the first intifada was in its early months and had already achieved two big accomplishments: It had fully mobilized the Palestinian population in a way not seen in prior resistance to the occupation, and, it had won for the Palestinians worldwide attention and considerable sympathy for their plight. There was, however, a gaping hole: the absence of strategy. When you asked Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) about how the intifada was to lead to the independent Palestinian state they said they were seeking, you got one of two answers: Either they said that the issue of grand strategy was up to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), or they invoked the idea of an international conference in which the Palestinians would be represented by the PLO and at which, somehow, the great powers — primarily the United States — would force upon Israel a Palestinian state and an end to the occupation.
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ID:
140304
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Many sub-regional initiatives are prospering in Asia. As the limits to regional cooperation become evident, particularly in the SAARC context, sub-regional cooperation offers a window of opportunity for India to push through economic integration of India with its South and South East Asian neighbours. Already some examples exist which need to be emulated and expanded upon such as ADB‘s SASEC programme for some South Asian countries or BIMSTEC involving South and South East Asia. This paper spells out the need and rationale for energising sub-regional cooperation among three major countries straddling the South and South East Asia axis namely India, Bangladesh and Myanmar. It argues that there is sufficient content and context in the three bilateral relationships, which of late have been witnessing upswings, to start working on various trilateral cooperation proposals. This will not only be a win-win formula for all three countries involved but will also propel greater cooperation in some other larger configurations of sub-regional cooperation namely BIMSTEC or BCIM-EC as these three countries form the geographical kernel of other frameworks as well.
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142467
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