Journal of Contemporary Politics
DOI: 10.53989/jcp.v3i3.50
Year: 2024, Volume: 3, Issue: 3, Pages: 93-99
Original Article
Prasanta Sahoo1,∗
1Associate Professor, Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-67, India
*Corresponding Author
Email: [email protected]
Received Date:05 December 2024, Accepted Date:22 December 2024, Published Date:30 December 2024
Along with historical, religious, and ethnic legacies, India and Myanmar are of immense importance to each other to ensure development and security in their respective nations. Both countries are strategically important and economically valuable for each other. India shapes this relationship through a twin neighbourhood strategy called ‘Neighbourhood First’ and ‘Act East Policy’ (AEP). Since Mr Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister (2014) in New Delhi, the bilateral relationship between both countries has been seriously boosted, even under the current junta administration. While Myanmar is known as the gateway to Southeast Asia for India, North-East India is its closest neighbourhood. Experts argue that the South Asian Region reaches Myanmar, and Southeast Asia ends in the northeastern parts of India. However, several challenges in bilateral relations question this argument. The paper critically evaluates the India-Myanmar bilateral relations in the present scenario.
Keywords: Act East Policy, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Neighbourhood First, North-East India, Rohingya, Strategy
© 2024 Published by Bangalore University. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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