Global Governance and Indias North-East: Logistics, Infrastructure and Society [Hardcover]

This book maps the convergence of governance and connectivity within Asia established through the spatial dynamics of trade, capital, conflict, borders and mobility. It situates Indian trade and governance policies within a broader Asian and global context.

Focussing on Indias North-East, in particular on Indias Look and Act East Policy, the volume underscores how logistical governance in the region can bring economic and political transformations. It explores the projected development of the North-East into a gateway of transformative cultural interaction among people, just as the Silk Road became a conduit for Buddhism to travel along with musical instruments and tea.

Comprehensive and topical, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of political studies, international relations, governance studies, development studies, international trade and economics and for think tanks working on South and Southeast Asia.

Introduction  I Imagining Spaces through Mobility  1 Cartographies of Connectivity in Asia and the Indian Response  2 Interwoven Realities: Logistics and the Reshaping of Global Governance  3 Financialisation of Infrastructure and the Construction of a Seamless Asia  II Geopolitics, Logistical Hubs and Connectivity  4 Bangladesh and the Double Look East  5 Logistical Hubs and the Look East and Act East Policy: The Case of Kolkata and Its Port  III Governing Connectivity: Logistics, Infrastructure and Society in the North-East  6 Bridge of Spaces: East by Rear East  7 Frontier Towns in the Spatial Dynamics of Trade, Capital³Ñ