India shares 1643 km long border with Myanmar that passes through the northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland. Although cross-border contact and movement of people are known through, but they have not led to any strong economic interdependence between the regions across the border so far. The state-centric security perception, both in India and Myanmar, treated this border as vulnerable periphery. As a result, the ...