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Maritime Security and Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific Region
Artha-Journal of Social Sciences, 2019
The centre-of-gravity of world's economic power is shifting eastwards to the Indo-Pacific, a maritime-configured macro-region that spans the maritime underbelly of Asia connecting the Indian and the western Pacific oceans. The security environment in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific are different; nonetheless, strong maritime security linkages emerging between the two oceans has led to the reincarnation of the concept of Indo-Pacific. Since the turn of the 21st century, new maritime insecurities have taken root, including in terms of China's revisionist positions on the established maritime order. Notwithstanding the US response in the western Pacific and the recent articulation of its Indo-Pacific strategy, it is unclear how the regional countries and the major regional stakeholders will manage to address the emerging maritime insecurities in the Indian Ocean, including in terms of China's expanding politico-military footprint. This paper attempts to examine the security environment and geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific in context of India's national security interests.
MARITIME SECURITY IN INDO-PACIFIC: ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS
This article elucidates the importance of Indo-Pacific in maritime security today. In the 21st century, the region has gained the world's attention due to dramatic growth of China's economy, steady rise of India, the more proactive regional countries, and the increasing oil exports to the region. With such importance, the region has been contested with powerful nations, such as China, India, Australia, Japan, the Southeast Asia nations, and even the United States. China's increasing military presence in Indo-Pacific has been perceived as assertive by some of the regional countries. Meanwhile, the United States has become a more prominent actor in the region since the application of Rebalance policy in 2012. The paper discusses the issues, challenges and prospects of maritime security in Indo Pacific. ABSTRAK Artikel ini menjelaskan arti penting Indo-Pasifik dalam keamanan maritim dewasa ini. Pada abad ke-21, kawasan ini telah mendapat perhatian dunia karena pertumbuhan ekonomi China yang dramatis, bangkitnya India, negara-negara regional yang lebih proaktif, dan meningkatnya ekspor minyak ke wilayah ini. Arti penting kawasan ini telah diperebutkan dengan negara-negara kuat, seperti China, India, Australia, Jepang, negara-negara Asia Tenggara, dan bahkan Amerika Serikat. Kehadiran militer China yang meningkat di Indo-Pasifik telah dipandang secara serius oleh beberapa negara regional. Sementara itu, Amerika Serikat telah menjadi aktor yang lebih menonjol di kawasan ini sejak penerapan kebijakan Rebalance pada tahun 2012. Makalah ini membahas masalah, tantangan dan prospek keamanan maritim di Indo Pasifik. Kata Kunci: keamanan maritim; kerjasama keamanan maritim; keamanan regional; dinamika keamanan; strategi lingkungan
Polish Political Science Year Book, 2020
The article's purpose is the multidimensional analysis of the evolution of Australia and India's maritime policies and their impact on the endeavors to develop their maritime cooperation in the 21 st century. Two research questions are to be answered in that connection: what changes and why India and Australia introduced to enhance their maritime security doctrines in the 21 st century and why those changes contributed to the more in-depth cooperation in the second decade of the 21 st century. Th e hypothesis based on those questions argues that not only the rise of China but also global processes in maritime affairs-such as the growing number of state and non-state actors, as well as the interdependence between the fields of human activities at sea-pushed the littorals like India and Australia to turn their maritime strength from coastal to oceanic and convinced them too to cooperate. Th at process was accompanied by the convergence of the security perceptions by both countries (India and Australia) and the mutual understanding of common interests in all the elements of modern maritime security. Th e Christian Bueger's matrix serves as an explanatory framework to highlight the dynamics and broader context of the changes in India and Australia's maritime security doctrines in the 21 st century. It provides the conceptual framework for explaining closer cooperation between these two countries. Th e article analyzes India and Australia's maritime strategies, focusing on four variables from Bueger's matrix: national security, economic development, marine environment, and human security. In those dependent variables, particular elements of their activities serving as sub-variables are highlighted: in national security-shaping the seapower; in economic development-Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing; in the marine environment-climate change mitigation; in human security-the fight against piracy and 1 The article is the part of the research conducted within the Global India program financed by the European Commission.
Indo Pacific Maritime Security Challenges and Cooperation
This volume will be a rich resource for anyone interested in the maritime security in the Indo Pacific and the future of the maritime domain. It collects together selected papers from the Conference on Indo Pacific Maritime Security: Challenges and Cooperation, hosted by the National Security College, Australian National University, in March 2016. The conference brought together many eminent experts and policy practitioners from key Indo-Pacific countries to discuss the complex interplay of strategic competition and cooperation across the Indo Pacific. This is reflected in the great diversity of perspectives in included this volume: from Japanese views on naval strategy; to fresh perspectives about the management of security tensions in the East and South China Seas; debates about Japan future security role in the Indian Ocean; the future of new maritime security partnerships including India, and indeed, the future of the maritime domain. Anyone concerned about maritime security in our region will find new and policy-relevant insights.
Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2020
The purpose of the article is the multidimensional analysis of the evolution of the maritime policies of Australia and India, and their impact on the endeavors to develop their maritime cooperation in the 21 st century. Two research questions are to be answered in that connection: what changes and why India and Australia introduce to enhance their maritime security doctrines in the 21st century and why those changes contributed to the deeper cooperation in the second decade of the 21 st century. The hypothesis based on those questions argues that not only the rise of China but also global processes in maritime affairs like the growing number of state and non-state actors, as well as interdependence between the fields of human activities at sea, pushed the littorals like India and Australia to turn their maritime strength from coastal to oceanic and convinced them too to cooperate with each other. That process was accompanied by the convergence of the perceptions of the security by b...
THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION: The Emerging Geopolitical and Security Environment (2018)
The Indo-Pacific region stretches from the eastern Indian Ocean shores of Africa and West Asia to the littoral countries of the western Pacific. The region constitutes the ‘maritime underbelly’ of Asia, and is the fastest growing region in the world; and in a few decades, is likely to witness what may be referred to as ‘Renaissance 2.0’. The region is, therefore, ripe with enormous opportunities, not only for regional countries, but also for the rest of the global community. And yet, the region is beset with equally colossal security risks that emanate from inter alia the rise of China - that is not satisfied with ‘status quo’ in the global order including established international law and norms; strategic rivalries and the attendant security dilemma and arms race; issues of governance including maritime jurisdictions; the proliferation of malevolent non-state actors involved in maritime crimes and terrorism; and so on. The book is a collation of commentaries that analyse the trends with regard to the geopolitical and maritime security environment, along with the naval developments, in the Indo-Pacific in the past half-decade or so.
Changing Security Dynamics in the Indo-Pacific (co-authored with Olga Barbasiewicz and Ewa Trojnar)
Olga Barbasiewicz, Marcin Grabowski, Ewa Trojnar (eds.), Security Dilemmas and Challenges in 21st Century Asia, Peter Lang Verlag, Berlin 2020, 2020
This chapter aims at providing a brief description and analysis of the widely promoted concept of the Indo–Pacific, with a special focus on a multidimensional approach to security challenges in the region. A special focus is placed on the presidency of Donald Trump and the rising power of China in the context of power transition theory in reference to the so-called Sino-American trade war. This chapter briefly reviews the existing literature on the subject, as well as provides an outline of the structure of the book.