Title: Deep currents and rising tides : the Indian Ocean and international security /
Authors: Garofano, John,; Dew, Andrea J.; Garofano, John,; Dew, Andrea J.,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Security, International Indian Ocean Region.; Geopolitics Indian Ocean Region.; Indian Ocean Strategic aspects.; Indian Ocean Region Strategic aspects.
Abstract: This volume, one of the first attempts to treat the Indian Ocean Region in a coherent fashion, captures the spectrum of cooperation and competition in the Indian Ocean Region. Contributors discuss points of cooperation and competition in a region that stretches from East Africa, to Singapore, to Australia, and assess the regional interests of China, India, Pakistan, and the United States. Chapters review possible "red lines" for Chinese security in the region, India's naval ambitions, Pakistan's maritime security, and threats from non-state actors - terrorists, pirates, and criminal groups - who challenge security on the ocean for all states. The Indian Ocean region has rapidly emerged as a hinge point in the changing global balance of power, and the geographic nexus of economic and security issues with vital global consequences. The security of energy supplies, persistent poverty and its contribution to political extremism, piracy and related threats to seaborne trade, competing nuclear powers, and possibly the scene of future clashes between rising great powers India and China - all are dangers in the waters or in the littoral states of the Indian Ocean region.
Contents: Introduction / John Garofano and Andrea J. Dew -- Energy flows through the Indian Ocean / Sarah A. Emerson and Vivek S. Mathur -- Piracy : a fact-based history / John Martin -- Horn of troubles : understanding and addressing the Somali "piracy" phenomenon / Clive Schofield and Robin Warner -- Maritime terrorism and proliferation in the Indian Ocean area / Michael Richardson and Andrea J. Dew -- India : dominance, balance, or predominance in the Indian Ocean? / Andrew C. Winner -- Pakistan's view of security in the Indian Ocean / Moeed Yusuf -- China and the Indian Ocean : new departures in regional balancing / Jing-dong Yuan -- Redlines for Sino-Indian naval rivalry / James Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara -- I.O. 2.0 : international law and the future of Indian Ocean security / James Kraska -- A merlion at the edge of an Afrasian sea : Singapore's strategy towards the Indian Ocean / Emrys Chew -- The Indian Ocean and U.S. national security interests / Timothy D. Hoyt -- Conclusion : access and security in the Indian Ocean region / John Garofano and Andrea J. Dew.