1st Edition

Indian Ocean Futures New Partnerships, New Alliances, and Academic Diplomacy

Edited By Timothy Doyle, Graham Seal Copyright 2017
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

Indian Ocean studies, which once lagged behind studies of the Atlantic and the Pacific, is an important emerging academic field which has come into its own. In the next fifty years, the Indian Ocean Region will become very significant as a result of enormous demographic changes. What was the Ocean of the South is rapidly becoming the Ocean of the Centre, the Ocean of the Future. Curtin... Read more

Foreword
Ambassador K.V. Bhagirath

1. Indian Ocean futures: new partnerships, new alliances and academic diplomacy
Timothy Doyle and Graham Seal

2. Fluid ontologies in the search for MH370
Lindsay Bremner

3. An Indo-Pacific norm entrepreneur? Australia and defence diplomacy
Andrew Carr and Daniel Baldino

4. An Indian Ocean dilemma: Sino-Indian rivalry and China’s strategic vulnerability in the Indian Ocean
David Brewster

5. Green urbanism in the Indian Ocean region
Anne Matan and Peter Newman

6. Changing local weather and adaptation in two coastal villages in Bangladesh
Mokhlesur Rahman and Bob Pokrant

7. Styling multilateralism: Indian Ocean cultural futures
Isabel Hofmeyr

8. Understanding the climate-sensitive decisions and information needs of island communities
Melissa L. Finucane and Victoria W. Keener

9. An East African perspective for paradigm shift on maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes

Biography

Timothy Doyle is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Adelaide in Australia and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI), Curtin University, Western Australia. He is also Emeritus Chair of Politics and International Relations at Keele University in the United Kingdom

Graham Seal is Professor and Director of the Australia-Asia Pacific Institute at Curtin University, Western Australia.