Security Challenges to India-Bangladesh Relations: Some Visible Issues

Zahoor Ahmad Rather

Abstract


South Asia is a conflict prone region subject to continuous political tensions. India, by far the largest country, and geographically centrally located, has developed differences with most of its smaller neighbours. Security has been a major driving force of India’s neighbourhood policy. India’s relations with Bangladesh have gone through several ups and downs over the past 40 years .Tensions have tended to recur periodically and have not allowed an atmosphere of mutual trust to prevail. At the root of threat to security lies a variety of forces that have become global in scope and more serious in their effects. The most important factor that generated hope was the change in the political atmospherics in Bangladesh regarding relations with India.


Keywords


Indian Hegemony, Security issues, Internal Security, Border Issues, India-Bangladesh Relations, Cross Border Firings, India’s neighbourhood policy, political atmospherics in Bangladesh

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