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Indian Ocean Islands: Illustrated Cases on Geopolitics, Ocean and Environment book cover

1st Edition

Indian Ocean Islands Illustrated Cases on Geopolitics, Ocean and Environment

Edited By Christian Bouchard, Shafick Osman Copyright 2018
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge
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Islands are intrinsic parts of the Indian Ocean Region’s physical geography and human landscape. Historically, many have played substantial roles in the regional cultural and economic networks, as well as in the regional political developments. Today, at least three issues bring these islands back to the forefront of the regional and global affairs, namely geopolitics and strategic matters,... Read more

Introduction: Indian Ocean Islands: Illustrated cases on geopolitics, ocean, environment



Christian Bouchard and Shafick Osman



1. Balancing and bandwagoning: explaining shifts in Sri Lankan foreign policy



Rajni Nayanthara Gamage



2. Cocos and Christmas Islands: building Australia’s strategic role in the Indian Ocean



David Brewster and Rory Medcalf



3. Towards a workers’ history of the Chagos archipelago



Marina Carter



4. ‘Indo-Mauritians’ and the Indian Ocean: literacy accounts and anthropological readings



Mathieu Claveyrolas



5. Small islands’ understanding of maritime security: the cases of Mauritius and Seychelles



James A. Malcolm and Linganaden Murday



6. The European Union and the Indian Ocean Islands: identifying opportunities for developing a more ambitious and comprehensive strategy



Erwan Lannon



7. Tropical cyclones and coastal communities: the dialectics of social and environmental change in the Sundarban delta



Debojyoti Das

Biography

Christian Bouchard is the Coordinator of Environmental Studies (French) at Laurentian University, Canada, a founding member of the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG), and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Indian Ocean.



Shafick Osman is a Research Associate at the Florida International University (USA), Deputy Editor-in-chief of Outre-Terre (France) and a member of the Society for Indian Ocean Studies (New Delhi) and IORG.

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