1st Edition

Power, Politics and Maritime Governance in the Indian Ocean

Edited By Jivanta Schoettli Copyright 2015
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

The Indian Ocean is of tremendous geo-political and strategic relevance. More than eighty per cent of global seaborne trade in oil passes through the Ocean. Access to resources is under-regulated (fishing) or has yet to be conceived (deep sea bed mining) and security concerns such as piracy and the stability of strategically located states, are propelling countries to rethink naval... Read more

1. Power, politics and maritime governance in the Indian Ocean  2. The Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Co-operation (IORARC): the futile quest for regionalism?  3. The Indian Ocean Region in India’s strategic futures: looking out to 2030  4. The reluctant pretender: China’s evolving presence in the Indian Ocean  5. The French strategic vision of the Indian Ocean  6. European (British and French) geostrategy in the IndoPacific  7. The US Navy’s IndoPacific challenge  8. Piracy and maritime governance in the Indian Ocean

Biography

Jivanta Schöttli is Postdoctoral Scholar at the Research Centre for Globalisation and Distributional Conflict and associate member of the South Asia Institute, both at Heidelberg University, Germany. Her research interests include India’s international relations and policy-making that is framed by the constraints and contingencies of domestic politics and global dynamics.