ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the dynamics of sub regional diplomacy, and how India has utilized this instrument of building relations with immediate neighbours, and the country's neighbourhood. Look East Policy (LEP) provides a platform for a renewed Indian commitment to Southeast and East Asia. Sub regional cooperation gives opportunities to reconnect and to find expression for both their diversity and their cross-border commonality. Economic, cultural and social opportunity makes the citizens of the Northeast fuller participants in the multicolored Indian identity. The chapter focuses on building cooperative networks, the larger the prospect for reciprocal actions on their part, producing an environment in which on both sides, stakes in mutual cooperation are strengthened. The India-Bangladesh border also offers prospect of connectivity and economic opportunity for the North-eastern States. In an interconnected world, the chapter seeks membership of different regional groups and is also in a position to accommodate others in the groups where we have a strong position.
