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The volume discusses India's security interest and concerns in its neighbourhood. Taking into consideration the geo-strategic location of India and its emergence as a regional power which makes it vulnerable to external threats, it examines India's constructive engagement with its neighbours, integration of foreign economic policy objectives in the contemporary globalised world and India's policy of non-perspective development assistance as a soft power. It deals with liberation movements, military dictatorships and insurgencies, terrorism, and crimes and problems in the region such as drugs and trafficking. Arguing that Indian neighbours are full of contradictions, disparities and paradoxes, it examines the Indo-Pakistan geopolitical rivalry in Afghanistan, environmental degradation as a non-traditional security threat to Bangladesh, the Indo-Bangladesh land boundary agreement, border disputes between India and China, the conflict between China and Tibetan groups and its implications for India, and the Maoist insurgency in India and Nepal.