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The Indian Northeastern region is the main reason for India to enhance its security relations with Myanmar. Insurgency in Northeastern India involves multiple armed separatist factions operating in India's Northeastern states, which are connected to the rest of India by the Siliguri Corridor, a strip of land as narrow as 23 kilometers wide. Hence, defense and security relations are always welcome and extremely needed by India in its bilateral relations with Myanmar. This paper focuses on defense and security implications for India after it changed its Myanmar’s policy since 1991. The objective of this paper is to analyze how India’s pragmatic approach with Myanmar enhanced India’s defense and security relations with Myanmar. As the method of gathering data in this study, primary data, through interviews with experts and content analysis were adopted. The findings of this study are analyzed through three perspectives, namely defense and security cooperation, arms sales and transfer, and military operations between the two countries. Constructivism theory combined with the concept of geopolitics were used as a guide in analyzing India’s defense and security implications. The findings of this study demonstrates that India has tremendously benefited in terms of security cooperation, arms sales as well military operations once its bilateral relations with Myanmar improved.
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