'AK47/M16 Rifle - Rs. 15,000 each': What price peace on the Indo-Burmese frontier?

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 283-297

  Farrelly, Nicholas ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Burma; Ceasefires; Law; Northeast India; Politics

Indexed keywords

ARMED FORCES; FRONTIER REGION; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; MILITARY GOVERNMENT; MILITARY INTERVENTION; PEACE PROCESS; PEACEKEEPING; POLITICAL POWER; REGIONAL POLITICS; REGIONAL SECURITY; WEAPONRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; MYANMAR; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 70449453498     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: 1469364X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09584930903108960     Document Type: Article

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