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154774
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Counterinsurgency (COIN) has long been recognised as a political phenomenon, but current theoretical understandings of politics in COIN reflect ideal types, overlooking the depth and complexity of the politics of insurgency and COIN. Drawing from India’s experience in its northeastern region, this article argues that COIN theory overlooks the political agency and multiplicity of actors, as well as overlooking the fundamentally political scope of interactions that take place between them. It calls upon COIN theorists to begin to map out this complex picture by urging greater integration between academics and practitioners studying COIN and theoretical inputs from wider academic disciplines.
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181339
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In the context of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, and the National Register of Citizens in Assam, this paper interrogates the xenophobic dimensions of Meitei nationalism that translated into a demand for the implementation of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) regime in Manipur in India’s Northeast. The ILP was extended to Manipur in 2019, regulating the entry of ‘outsiders’. Moreover, the recent pandemic has also visibilised the figure of a migrant worker. This paper, however, goes back several years earlier to examine literary representations of the anti-migrant ILP demand. It also highlights its gendered aspect by looking at three texts by ‘dominant’ Meitei women: Ngaseppam Nalini (Nee) Devi’s ‘Mukti’ (2002), Huirongbam Benubala’s ‘Blockade’ (2000) and Kshetrimayum Subadani’s ‘The Heat and the Agony’ (2007). Drawing on theorisations by Anne McClintock and Rosemary Marangoly George, and focussing on the figure of the migrant worker, these stories open up the question of belonging beyond the scope of the nation.
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141590
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With the emergence of India as an ‘Asian leader’, India’s Northeast has acquired both strategic and cultural importance particularly in recent years. While much has been written on the strategic part of India’s Asia policy with the obvious focus on the need for containing China, correspondingly very little – if anything - is written on either the cultural importance of Asia to India or similar importance of India to other Asian countries. For one thing, cultural dimensions are viewed in foreign policy circles as ‘soft power’ assets that can be deployed and mobilized at one’s will in order to accomplish strategic objectives. For another, culture is viewed in these circles not only in instrumentalist terms but also as an undifferentiated whole that pertains to the nation as an equally seamless entity.
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146728
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How does one make sense of, understand and interpret India’s foreign policy in general and her neighbourhood policy in particular? While acknowledging that there are indeed many approaches in this regard ranging from the realist and the currently fashionable neo-liberal approach at one extreme to the Marxist one at another (a brand of which even maintains that India’s policy towards the developing world of Asia and Africa is one of domination), in this essay I propose to follow an altogether different route.
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ID:
158895
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The India-Japan Act East Forum signed on 14th of September 2017 has once again brought India’s North Eastern Region (NER) to the forefront of Indian foreign policy. However this time it is not because of any war pertaining to border issues but mainly for the reason of cultivating economic and geostrategic potential of this region.
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170620
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The convergence of interests and shared sense of connectivity between Bangladesh and India have opened up potential of new business corridors between the former and the latter’s Northeast. But three states in that region, viz. Mizoram, Manipur and Nagaland are not engaging with Bangladesh like Tripura, Assam and Meghalaya; which needs to be addressed to unlock the potentials since both Bangladesh and Northeast India have been given importance in India’s ‘Act East Policy’. Enhancement of trade, investment, connectivity, energy, cultural exchanges, etc. are possible with seamless transport and communication network. The paper suggests that India’s Northeast serves as an easy source of raw materials and intermediate products for different industries in Bangladesh. Advanced infrastructural development with inland water connectivity, rail and road transportation will boost bilateral trade relations and open up more business opportunities with relatively less connected states of India’s Northeast.
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