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<p style="text-align: justify;">“East Asia” shows signs of integrating into a more coherent&nbsp;conomic area, and some optimistic observers even envisage a political unit in the&nbsp;making. The author argues that&nbsp;integration in Asia is necessarily&nbsp;limited because it is essentially a series of overlapping statedirected initiatives without a clear&nbsp;overarching vision, and with low&nbsp;civil society participation. &nbsp;</p>

Since mid '90s, Azerbaijan has traditionally been one of the main Euro-Atlantic partner in the volatile post-soviet region. Building on its relevance as energy producer and key energy transit state, Baku pursued a firm pro-Western foreign policy which facilitated US, NATO and EU engagement in the area.

The BCIM Forum (Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar) has attempted to link the plans of the Chinese Government for the development of the South-Western backward  Provinces, notably Yunnan, to India's “Look East Policy”.

Centuries ago Bengal, Northeast India, Myanmar and Yunnan were more integrated politically and economically than they are today.

The Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) is a congressmandated assessment of US military strategy and posture. Originally conceived as an attempt to fill the strategic vacuum left by the end of the Cold War, subsequent Pentagon leaders came to see it as a channel through which to convey new operational concepts and doctrine.