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India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement: Ramifications for India’s SecurityDecember 4th, 2015
The traditional notion of a state has been, and remains, state-centric with its military supremacy. No doubt, safeguarding territorial integrity from external aggression and protecting its citizens is vital for the existence of a nation-state. Inter-state relations are also marked by a kind of turbulence on account of several transnational non- traditional security threats and ethno-cultural conflicts. The demand of self-determination by the separatists and insurgents groups with the support of external actors has made the question of state security an even more complex phenomenon. Military defence and economic regulations have traditionally been central border concerns, but many states are retooling and reconfiguring their border regulatory apparatus to prioritise policing. These priorities of border management have become one of the most serious critiques. The policing objective of a state is to deny territorial access to undesirables, whom Peter Andreas terms “Clandestine Transnatio
