Indo-Pacific : Emerging Powers Evolving Regions and Global Governance
Contents: Preface. 1. Towards a strategic triangle in the Indo-Pacific: India’s initiatives with China and the United States/D.Gopal. 2. Indo-pacific region: evolving strategic contours/Dalbir Ahlawat and Fred C. Smith. 3. Multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific: change or continuity/Pankaj K. Jha. 4. Unpacking India-China strategic futures using causal layered analysis/Jeanne Hoffman. 5. Russia’s pivot to Asia: constructing a Eurasian state in a multipolar world/Glenn Diesen. 6. Indo-pacific as an emerging geopolitical construct: US policy and ramifications/Chintamani Mahapatra and Vivek Mishra. 7. Understanding trade competitiveness of the Indian Ocean countries: statistical appraisal/Faisal Ahmed and M. Absar Alam. 8. Governance in federations: agendas for change in India and Australia/RFI Smith. 9. Maritime security in the Indo-pacific region: string of pearls and maritime silk road/Wang Dehua. 10. India’s role in the emerging Indo-Pacific Security architecture/Arvind Kumar. 11. Indonesia-Australia relations and the Indo-Pacific developments/Munmun Majumdar. 12. Australia’s Uranium deal with India: strategic, economic or simply Ad Hoc/Aakash Tolani. Bibliography. Index.
The book Indo-Pacific: emerging powers, evolving regions and challenges to global Governance is an outcome of a collaborative project undertaken together by young and leading scholars on world affairs.
Based on in-depth study and research the compendium brings to fore the implications of the shift in power to the Indo-Pacific region-the vast and single geo-strategic arc and geo-economic realm spanning the eastern Pacific Ocean to the western Indian Ocean along the eastern coast of Africa.
As a new constellation of economic and political power, Indo-Pacific is influenced by the rise of China and India rapidly dwarfing all other regional constructs and centres of trade, investment, security, competition and cooperation across the world.
The Indo-Pacific power narrative is not about China and India alone. The book devotes attention to the stakes of erstwhile super powers as well as middle powers of the region such as Australia, Indonesia and Japan.
Encompassing half of the world’s population and repository of vast natural resources with most important commercial water-ways crass-crossing the two ocean region, the geostrategic significance of the Indo-Pacific is undoubted.
A rich bibliography at the end provides access to policy debates and academic analyses concerning the different dimensions of the Indo-Pacific.
The book Indo-Pacific is a useful reader for policy makers scholars and students engaged in study, research and analysis on contemporary world affairs. (jacket)
