ABSTRACT
The concluding chapter provides an explanation of the sustained marginality of the region in the domain of foreign policy by highlighting three factors: colonial baggage of Northeast as frontier, prevalence of geopolitical rivalry over the region, and minimal importance of Northeast in Look East/Act East. The chapter calls for adoption of a framework of ‘region-state’ in terms of foreign policy approach with three operational strategies, i.e. local/regional, national, and international, to visualise a transnational project of region building with new regional identities, norms, and institutions in keeping with constructivist world view to overcome the present geopolitical and territorial trap of Northeast India.
