India-Burma relations
Websites/Multiple Documents
| Title: | | "Mizzima" |
| Description/subject: | | A most impressive institution, much more than a news service, with an excellent website. Mizzima concentrates on India-Burma relations, events etc. Several Mizzima articles daily in English and Burmese which can be read on the site or delivered to your mailbox. The website has a browsable archive back to 98, which is an important resource. The search function does not work all that well (e.g. searching for "naga", it retrieved 5 documents, whereas there are several hundred accessible to the patient browser). Sections include: the Mizzima News; Mizzima News Archives; News in Burmese; Burma Related News (various sources); Nationalities Questions; Documents (nothing there yet); Debates; About Mizzima; About Burma;
Mizzima's Activities;
Seminars;
Photo Gallery (mainly people sitting round tables);
Media in Burma;
Network Links;
Chat Room;
Burmese calendar; Research on Indo-Burma relations; English Language School;
Art Exhibitions;
Music Album;
Mizzima Video Documentary;
Affiliated Organizations;
Mizzima Team. |
| Language: | | English, Burmese. |
| Source/publisher: | | Mizzima |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Center for Justice and Peace in South Asia Cjesa |
| Description/subject: | | "...news and discussion forum of CJPsa strives to achieve Justice and Peace to the indigenous and minority groups including women and children in South Asia by bringing diverse interest groups together to facilitate communications, action items, and propagation of pertinent information using the mass media. Our aim is to effect public opinion and thus facilitate political actions which will lead to justice and peace in South Asia..." [this is a very active group of over 300 members. It covers mainly the Indian subcontinent, with lots of postings on the Indian North-East, but also a number of messages about the India-Burma, Bangladesh-Burma borders - DA] INACTIVE (FEB 2009) |
| Language: | | English |
| Subscribe: | | cjesa-subscribe@yahoogroups.com |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | India in the World: The International Relations of a Rising Power |
| Description/subject: | | A wealth of online primary (1947-present) and secondary documents on India's foreign relations, including a number dealing with Burma/Myanmar, India's Look East policy etc. Go to http://www.thescotties.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ for material on China and other parts of the Asia-Pacific |
| Author/creator: | | David Scott |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | David Scott |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.thescotties.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ |
| Date of entry/update: | | 02 April 2008 |
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| Title: | | Indo-burma News |
| Description/subject: | | "This website provides news and information resources related to Burma and India relations. News and information are being taken out from different sources, independent news agency and websites.
India, being a biggest democratic country in the world, has recently changed its policy to support the oppressive Burmese military regime for its national interest and energy needs. The site provides resources and archives to help activists to lobby Indian political parties, civil societiy organizations, NGOs and individuals for the support of democracy movement in Burma and political activities of Burmese exiles in India."... Very sporadic -- some months or even years have no articles, but some periods have a lot. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Indo-burma News |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 02 April 2008 |
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| Title: | | Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses [Delhi] |
| Description/subject: | | One of the Delhi think tanks with an interest in Burma-Myanmar...Use the (google) search engine... Strong links with the Indian Ministry of Defence, though it (and its individual researchers) claim independence. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 November 2008 |
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| Title: | | Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies [Delhi] |
| Description/subject: | | One of the Delhi-based think tanks with the greatest interest in India-Burma/Myanmar relations. A search for "Myanmar" on this site produced 168 articles and 796 news items (November 2008). |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 November 2008 |
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| Title: | | Observer Research Foundation (ORF) [Delhi] |
| Description/subject: | | One of the Delhi think-tanks with a Burma/Myanmar interest (it has a Myanmar specialist, K Yhome) ... It has some Burma/Myanmar material, but since the rather eccentric website has no visible search engine this is best accessed via a google site-specific search:
myanmar site:observerindia.com ... Even with a (free) subscription, one is often limited to executive summaries.... "OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION (ORF) is an endeavour to aid and influence formulation of policies for building a strong and prosperous India. The expectations of the global community from India are immense as the country is poised to play a leading role in the knowledge age. The Foundation believes that in the next 25 years India will be one of the great economic powers in the world and contribute to a significant transformation in the quality of life of humanity." ..... |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Observer Research Foundation |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://orfonline.org |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 November 2008 |
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| Title: | | Website of Renaud Egreteau |
| Description/subject: | | "Welcome to my Site !
Let me introduce myself. As a French researcher in International Relations, I have been working for the last 7 years on geopolitics in Asia, with a special focus on India and Burma (Myanmar).
In December 2006, I successfully defended my Ph.D Dissertation (Political Science, Asian Studies) at the Institute of Political Science, Paris, France : "India, China and the Burmese Issue : Sino-Indian Rivalry through Burma/Myanmar and its Limits since 1988" (with distinction).
You will find in this website a glimpse of the works I have done so far on those issues (articles, publications, fieldworks) as well as some links and contacts which could be of interest on these matters. Enjoy the visit "...
Dr. Renaud EGRETEAU |
| Language: | | Francais, French, English |
| Source/publisher: | | Renaud Egreteau |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 27 June 2007 |
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Individual Documents
| Title: | | INDIA-MYANMAR RELATIONS (1998-2008): A DECADE OF REDEFINING BILATERAL TIES |
| Date of publication: | | February 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | Abstract
India-Myanmar rapprochement began in 1991 and gained momentum in the latter part of the decade, as evidenced in the growing political, economic and military cooperation since 1998. This paper argues that it was during the period between 1998 and 2008 that the bilateral relationship withstood the test of critical events. Furthermore, expansion and diversification of these bilateral ties tookplace during the very same period. The paper identifies some issues that could emerge as potential fissures to upset the relationship. In conclusion, the paper suggests that it is high time the leadership of the two countries initiated measures to address these issues. As the stakes increase for both countries, it is imperative for them to ensure the sustenance of the hard earned relationship.. |
| Author/creator: | | K. Yhome |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION |
| Format/size: | | pdf (578K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 05 June 2009 |
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| Title: | | Wer lässt wen im Stich? |
| Date of publication: | | 30 January 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | Die jüngsten Demonstrationen in Burma sind eine erneute Bewährungsprobe für demokratische Werte in einer Welt, die zumindest in politischer Hinsicht größtenteils demokratisch ist.
Ebenso wie der Kampf der Werte auf den blutigen Straßen in Teilen Burmas sichtbar war, beschloss die benachbarte "größte Demokratie der Welt", die gleichzeitig ein strategischer Partner des Landes ist, eben jene Werte, die es tendenziell vertritt, aufs Spiel zu setzen. Der Rest der Welt – insbesondere die USA und Europa – tat kaum mehr als diplomatische Statements abzugeben und Indien und China zu drängen, entschieden vorzugehen.
Indisch-burmesische Beziehungen, Burma-US Amerikanische Beziehungen, Burma-EU Beziehungen, Sanktionen;
Indian-burmese, US-Burmese, EU-Burmese relations; sanctions; |
| Author/creator: | | Sachin Joshi |
| Language: | | German, Deutsch |
| Source/publisher: | | Südasien |
| Format/size: | | Html (41k) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 February 2008 |
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| Title: | | Es besteht Nachholbedarf |
| Date of publication: | | 11 January 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | Es erhob sich in letzter Zeit der Ruf nach einem energischen Auftreten Indiens gegen das Militärregime in Burma immer lauter. Die Rufer übersahen allerdings, dass die indisch-burmesischen Beziehungen, wie auch die zum Rest Südostasiens, alles andere als eng und damit die Möglichkeiten der Einflussnahme ausgesprochen gering sind.
Außenpolitik Indiens; Indisch-chinesische Beziehung; Südostasien; SEATO; India`s foreign policy; Indian-Burmese Relations; Indian-Chinese Relations; Southeast Asia; Uprising 2007 |
| Author/creator: | | Amit Das Gupta |
| Language: | | German, Deutsch |
| Source/publisher: | | Asienhaus |
| Format/size: | | Html (47 kb) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.asienhaus.de/public/archiv/2007-4-008.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 January 2008 |
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| Title: | | India-Myanmar Relations |
| Date of publication: | | 18 September 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | Report of Seminar held at the IPCS on 18 September 2007...
Chair:
Amb Eric Gonsalves;
Panelists:
Mr Soe Myint, Editor, Mizzima News;
Prof Baladas Ghoshal, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research;
Prof Man Mohini Kaul, Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University..."India has neglected Myanmar for quite some time and it should reestablish its knowledge of and contacts with this neighbouring country as it was in the past during the era of Pandit Nehru and U Nu. In this context, the most pertinent question is of how to deal with the sociopolitical problems of Myanmar as it concerns India as well. There is also a need to formulate a political and strategic policy towards the country since Myanmar holds enormous importance for India's security...Connectivity is the most fundamental element in India's relations with its neighbours. India's highest decision-makers have so far limited attempts to build and improve border roads. However, this has limited the free-flow of border trade. India's northeast insurgency problem cannot be resolved unless there is economic development and open border trade. Meanwhile, the Indian government and civil society have failed to come out with a proper agenda for Myanmar. Despite this, the latter has largely been supportive of Myanmarese pro-democratic agitations and continues to sympathize with Aung San Suu Kyi and press for her release..." |
| Author/creator: | | Anushree Bhattacharyya |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 February 2008 |
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| Title: | | Burma. Ein Mosaikstein indischer Ost-Politik. Pragmatismus gegenüber der Militärjunta |
| Date of publication: | | 25 April 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | Seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre arrangierten sich alle indischen Regierungen mit dem östlichen Nachbarn. Die größte Demokratie der Welt zeigte sich sehr zurückhaltend gegenüber der kürzlichen Protestbewegung in Burma. Energieinteressen, die burmesische Hilfe bei der Bekämpfung von Rebellen im indischen Nordosten und die angestrebte Neutralisierung des mächtigen chinesischen Einflusses führten zu einem sichtbaren Appeasement gegenüber der ebident die Menschenrechte verletzenden burmesischen Junta. Es mangelt an einer überzeugenden Initiative der indischen Regionalmacht, das Thema Burma offensiv anzugehen; chinesischer Einfluss in Burma; Geo-Politik Burmas; indische Wirtschaftsinteressen in Burma; indisch-burmesische Militärkooperationen; chinese Influence in Burma; geo-politics of Burma; indian economic interests in Burma; indian-burmese military cooperation |
| Author/creator: | | Klaus Julian Voll |
| Language: | | German, Deutsch |
| Source/publisher: | | Asienhaus |
| Format/size: | | PDF |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 January 2008 |
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| Title: | | India's Myanmar Policy - A Dilemma between Realism and Idealism |
| Date of publication: | | March 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | "Myanmar is often perceived to be a buffer state between the two Asian giants of India and China. Its strategic location provides Myanmar with an opportunity to play a significant role in the geopolitics of South and Southeast Asia. In addition, the availability of natural gas in Myanmar gives an economic dimension to its strategic significance. Myanmar shares a 1640 km-long land and maritime boundary with India, making it a crucial element of India’s security calculus and ensuring that amicable relations with Myanmar are vital...Be it traditional, non-traditional, or even energy security, Myanmar is definitely an important component of India’s security management system. Engagement with Myanmar is, therefore, logical for India. The problem before India is what should be the nature of engagement with one of the most brutal regimes in the world..." |
| Author/creator: | | Yogendra Singh |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS Special Report, No. 37, March 2007) |
| Format/size: | | pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 February 2008 |
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| Title: | | India Woos Burma with Weapons for Gas |
| Date of publication: | | January 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | New Delhi’s eagerness to supply Burma with weapons highlights new quid pro quo policies...
"Increased contacts between senior military chiefs oÂn both sides of the Burma-India border, involving Indian weapons sales, are believed by analysts to have two primary objectives: to help flush out Burma-based Indian insurgents and to counter growing Chinese influence in Naypyidaw.
But the sale of arms and related technical equipment is also likely to be linked to New Delhi’s “Look East†economic policy, including ambitions to buy huge quantities of Burma’s offshore gas in the Bay of Bengal. If the gas bid—against rivals China and Thailand—is successful, it will also involve building a costly pipeline through rebel-infested areas of northwest Burma and northeast India..." |
| Author/creator: | | Aung Lwin Oo |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 15, No. 1 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 26 July 2008 |
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| Title: | | India's Balancing Act |
| Date of publication: | | April 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | Business interests compete with human rights concerns in forging Burma policies...
Burma has shot back to the top of India's foreign policy agenda following Indian President APJ Abdul Kalama's visit last month, and battle lines are now being drawn in New Delhi over the contentious question of how to deal with the military junta.
The military establishment in India and its business community have started fresh lobbying in New Delhi to keep the country's Burma policy of dealing with the generals on course. But human rights groups in the country and many smaller political parties want the government to come out in direct support of Burma's pro-democracy movement..." |
| Author/creator: | | Subir Bhaumik |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol 14, No. 4 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.indoburmanews.net/documents/act |
| Date of entry/update: | | 28 December 2006 |
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| Title: | | A Naga Ultimatum - An Interview with Thuingaleng Muivah |
| Date of publication: | | January 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | Separatist leader sets terms for peace with India...
"Thuingaleng Muivah, head of the separatist group National Socialist Council of Nagaland, has given New Delhi an ultimatum. Eight years of negotiations with the Indian government have yielded no results. If no acceptable settlement is reached by January 31, 2006—the date that existing ceasefire agreements will expire—he will suspend all negotiations and return to the jungles of northeastern India, along the border with Burma, to resume an armed opposition movement that began nearly 50 years ago. The ranks of the NSCN have swelled to some 6,000 soldiers since the group signed a ceasefire agreement in 1997. A fellow opposition group, the United Liberation Front of Assam, has now promised to back the NSCN in the event of a final breakdown in peace talks, making the Naga contingent an even more potent threat. In an interview with The Irrawaddy’s correspondent Subir Bhaumik, Muivah explains the conditions for a lasting peace between India and Nagaland..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 14, No. 1 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 01 May 2006 |
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| Title: | | INSTABILITY AT THE GATE: India’s Troubled Northeast and its External Connections |
| Date of publication: | | January 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | Abstract: "India’s Northeast has long been described as a remote and sensitive area, racially and culturally disconnected to mainland India but strategically attached to it. Expressions of ethnic identities since India’s independence have been very blunt in the whole region and many sub-nationalists developed a strong separatist stream from the late 1940s. Rapidly, the ethnic struggle became a well-organised and multidimensional militancy which took up arms and launched various enduring insurgencies against India’s central government. Facing a harsher repression orchestrated by New Delhi, the few separatist groups that had burgeoned in the region turned rapidly radical. Moreover, most of them had found in the local population their main back-up : the “Robin Hood syndrome” they had created enabled them to benefit from a wide popular support.
This paper intends first to give a brief overview of the rise and growth of some of those separatist groups, with a special focus on the Nagas, the Mizos and the Assam movement. Insurgency took different forms in the Northeast as ethnic leaders chose different paths, means and patrons to pursue their struggle for recognition and/or separatism. Indeed, most of the armed ultras soon criminalised their activities in order to sustain their struggle. An analysis of the degeneration of these sub-nationalist movements into mere criminal groups has been proposed in this paper. With the Indian Armed Forces having more and more capacities and discretionary power of action, insurgency has radicalised its forms and activities. The criminalisation process will be broached by focusing the study on few separatist groups that have dropped their original revolutionary and lofty ideals to concentrate their struggle on easy money and underground activities, in spite of the fact that individualised interests, internecine rivalries and indiscriminate violence have often turned the population against those outfits.
Finally, how has the externality of the insurgency influenced this phenomenon? The third part of the paper will propose an overview of the rapid externalisation of all the insurgent groups. The linkages they have established across borders enabled them to obtain friendly support (Pakistan), funding (China, LTTE) and strategic shelter (Burma, Bangladesh). We will attempt to demonstrate how these external connections fuelled the instability in the Northeast and conceptualised their struggle and survival. However, in the meantime, the external factor could also be the solution to the problem: by opening up the Northeast and developing it as a result of a more globalised local economy, the stalemate could possibly be overcome." |
| Author/creator: | | Renaud Egreteau |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | French Research Institutes in India (CSH Occasional Paper No. 16, 2006) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (587K) 167 pages |
| Date of entry/update: | | 11 June 2007 |
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| Title: | | Strategic Memory Lane |
| Date of publication: | | November 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | It is known as the “Road to Nowhere” or “Ghost Road,” but there are hopes that political and strategic problems can be sidetracked to resurrect the World War II-era Ledo Road, running between India and China through Burma..."...India and China have sometimes made calls to reopen the Ledo Road. They have come from a visiting delegation from the Yunnan Provincial Chamber of Commerce at an international trade fair in Guwahati, the capital of Assam; from the Federation of Indian Export Organizations in Calcutta; and increasingly from a number of individual politicians and members of state governments in India’s northeast, especially from Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. Academics have also raised the issue. A handful of people are upbeat about the tourism prospects—of driving air-con jeeps across the mountains and through jungles and exotic places from India to China.
China appears to be the most prepared. It has already greatly upgraded its section of the Burma Road, built in 1937-38, into a modern, partly six-lane mountain highway..." |
| Author/creator: | | Karin Dean |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 11 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 01 May 2006 |
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| Title: | | GATEWAY TO THE EAST |
| Date of publication: | | June 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | a symposium on Northeast India
and the look east policy...
The Problem:
Posed by Sanjib Baruah, Visiting Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi...
NORTHEAST INDIA IN A NEW ASIA:
Jairam Ramesh, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)...
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES OR CONTINUING STAGNATION:
Sushil Khanna, Professor of Economics and Strategic Management, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata...
WATERS OF DESPAIR, WATERS OF HOPE:
Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee, Centre for Northeast Studies and Policy Research, New Delhi and Guwahati...
PROSPECTS FOR TOURISM:
M.P. Bezbaruah, Former Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Government of India...
OPERATION HORNBILL FESTIVAL 2004:
Dolly Kikon, Member, Working Group, Northeast Peoples' Initiative, Guwahati...
GUNS, DRUGS AND REBELS:
Subir Bhaumik, East India Correspondent, BBC, Kolkata...
A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE:
Jayeeta Sharma, Assistant Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA...
TERRITORIALITIES YET UNACCOUNTED:
Karin Dean, Asia Correspondent, 'Postimees', Bangkok...
COMMUNITY, CULTURE, NATION:
Mrinal Miri, Vice Chancellor, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong...
THE TAI-AHOM CONNECTION:
Yasmin Saikia, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA...
THE ETHNIC DIMENSION:
Samir Kumar Das, Reader, Department of Political Science, Calcutta University...
BOOKS:
Reviewed by Nandana Datta, Dulali Nag, Bodhisattva Kar, Nimmi Kurian and M.S. Prabhakara...
FURTHER READING:
Compiled by Sukanya Sharma, Fellow, Centre for Northeast India, South and Southeast Asia Studies, Guwahati...
COMMUNICATION:
Received from C.P. Bhambhri and B.K. Banerji. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Seminar magazine |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 01 May 2006 |
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| Title: | | India Wants More from Burma |
| Date of publication: | | April 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | Curb the anti-India militants, Rangoon is told...
"New Delhi isn’t satisfied. It wants more out of Rangoon. The March visit by India’s External Affairs Minister, Natwar Singh, to Burma was a clear signal that not enough is being done by Rangoon to satisfy its concern about anti-India militants operating from Burmese territory.
The official assessment in the corridors of power is that “something†is being done by Rangoon, but it’s not enough to deal with the anti-India militant groups, who are active in several provinces in India’s Northeast.
Natwar Singh is received in Rangoon by Foreign Minister Nyan Win
Placing New Delhi’s concern on record, the Indian embassy in Rangoon said after Singh’s talks with the junta, including Snr-Gen Than Shwe: “It was agreed that dialogue and concrete cooperation to counter terrorist activities in the border region would be further strengthened.â€
From the context of these lines, it’s apparent that more dialogue and concrete cooperation between India and Burma are essential as far as New Delhi is concerned..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 4 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 27 April 2006 |
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| Title: | | Burma and superpower rivalries in the Asia-Pacific |
| Date of publication: | | April 2002 |
| Description/subject: | | "The Western democracies have declared that their strong stances against the current military regime in Burma reflect principled stands against the 1988 massacres of pro-democracy demonstrators, the failure of the regime to recognize the results of the 1990 general elections (which resulted in a landslide victory for the main opposition parties), and the regime?s continuing human rights abuses. Yet it can be argued that such a strong and sustained position would have been less likely had the Cold War not ended and Burma?s importance in the global competition between the superpowers not significantly waned. Lacking any pressing strategic or military reason to cultivate Burma, and with few direct political or economic interests at stake, countries like the United States and the United Kingdom can afford to isolate the Rangoon regime and impose upon it pariah status. If this was indeed the calculation made in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it is possible that the changes that have occurred in the strategic environment since then may prompt a reconsideration of these policies.
Burma lies where South, Southeast, and East Asia meet; there the dominant cultures of these three subregions compete for influence. It lies also across the ?fault lines? between three major civilisations?Hindu, Buddhist, and Confucian.1 At critical times in the past, Burma has been a cockpit for rivalry between superpowers. Today, in the fluid strategic environment of the early twenty-first century, its important position is once again attracting attention from analysts, officials, and military planners. Already, Burma?s close relationship with China and the development of the Burmese armed forces have reminded South and Southeast Asian countries, at least, of Burma?s geostrategic importance and prompted a markedly different approach from that of the West..." The PDF version (222K) has a map and a 4-page presentation of Burma's geostrategic position not contained in the html version. |
| Author/creator: | | Andrew Selth |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Naval War College Review, Spring 2002, Vol. LV, No. 2 |
| Format/size: | | html (Google cache), pdf (226K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JIW/is_2_55/ai_88174228 |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Militärkontakte zu Indien. Weitere chinesische Rüstungsgüter |
| Date of publication: | | January 2002 |
| Description/subject: | | Besuch des Generaldirektors der indischen Streitkräfte für militärische Ausbildung, Generalmajor Ashok Vasudev, in der ersten Dezemberhälfte mit dem Ziel der "Prüfung einer Zusammenarbeit".
Visit of Indian Military leader with the purpose to investigate co-operation. |
| Author/creator: | | Günter Siemers |
| Language: | | Deutsch, German |
| Source/publisher: | | Institut für Asienkunde |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Challenges to democratization in Burma: Perspectives on multilateral and bilateral responses. Chapter 4 - India–Burma relations |
| Date of publication: | | 14 December 2001 |
| Description/subject: | | I Introduction;
II Historical background;
III India’s policies towards Burma;
IV Major factors contributing to the relationship between India and Burma;
V Indo-Burmese trade relationship;
VI Indo-Burmese military cooperation;
VII India’s support to the Burma democracy movement;
VIII Suggestions for Burma pro-democracy activists;
IX Conclusions.
"India and Burma have a historical connection that goes back to the fifth century and since then have
enjoyed mutual contact in the realm of trade, commerce, religion, law, political philosophy and
culture. Both countries came under British colonial rule, and Burmese leaders associated with Indian
leaders during the struggle for national independence. Nehru and U Nu built up a personal friendship
that formed the basis of good Indo-Burmese relations, which with ups and downs have lasted 50 years
The two countries have not once reached a point of diplomatic stand-off or conflict since
independence.
The lowest point came after the 1988 people’s uprising when India was the first neighbouring country
to criticize the Burmese military government. The Indian Embassy in Rangoon actively supported the
pro-democracy student activists and many entered India for shelter after the military coup in 1988.143
From 1988 to 1990, India followed a policy committed to open support of the forces of democracy and
“complete disengagement” with the ruling military junta in Burma.
However, in the 1990s, relations between India and Burma thawed again. Now India and Burma are
cooperating in many fields, including countering insurgency on the border, checking narcotics
smuggling across the border, sharing intelligence on a real-time basis, promoting trade and investment.
India has also extended economic aid to India.
In this research paper, an attempt is made to map out the policies of India towards Burma from the
post-independence era to the present time and to analyse the major factors behind these policies. The
authors also look at the implications of these policies with regard to democraticization in Burma; and
they put forward some suggestions for Burmese pro-democracy groups on how to get political support
from India..." |
| Author/creator: | | Thin Thin Aung, Soe Myint |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | International IDEA |
| Format/size: | | pdf (316K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.mizzima.com/mizzima-works/researchs/2001/index.htm |
| Date of entry/update: | | 12 July 2003 |
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| Title: | | India's confrontation with Chinese interests in Myanmar |
| Date of publication: | | March 2001 |
| Description/subject: | | "That India has never been immune to political developments in Myanmar (Burma
before 1989) rests, first of all, on the hard facts of geographical continuity: the frontier
between the two countries extends over 1,643 km and borders four strategically sensitive
Indian states: Arunachal Pradesh (520 km), Nagaland (215 km), Manipur (398 km),
Mizoram (510 km). Furthermore, India?s maritime south-eastern trade routes border
Myanmar?s territorial waters, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands where India has
naval and air facilities - are much closer to the Burmese shore than to the coastal states of
eastern India 1. Myanmar is a land bridge between South and South-East Asia and can
only be marginalised at India?s own peril. These considerations would ensure the
necessity for India to maintain at the very least cordial relations with the government in
power in Yangon (formerly Rangoon), lest a potential enemy stand at the gates of eastern
India...". The paper appears as a chapter in "India's Confrontation with Chinese Interests in Myanmar" in India and ASEAN: The Politics of India's Look East Policy, Fréderic Grare & Amitabh Mattoo (eds), Manohar/CSH, New Delhi, 2001, pp. 161.189. |
| Author/creator: | | Gilles Boquerat |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi |
| Format/size: | | PDF (80K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.csh-delhi.com/ |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | India and Burma: Working on Their Relationship |
| Date of publication: | | March 1999 |
| Description/subject: | | Soe Myint examines the evolution of Indo-Burmese relations since the pro-democracy uprisings of 1988, and considers what the push for a "working relationship" may mean for activists in exile. |
| Author/creator: | | Soe Myint |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 7. No. 3 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Indian Parliament |
| Description/subject: | | Contains email, street address and phone Nos. of parliamentarians |
| Language: | | English |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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