Contest for the Indian Ocean
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- ISBN 9780300270914
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 27 Aug 2024
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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A major new examination of the Indian Ocean, revealing how the region has become a hotly contested geopolitical flashpoint
Throughout history, the Indian Ocean has been an essential space for trade, commerce, and culture. Every European power has sought to dominate it. Now, after a lull in the postwar period, control of major shipping routes has once again become a critical aspect of every rising state’s ambition to be a global power.
Darshana M. Baruah shows how governments from Washington, DC, to Nairobi and Canberra are expanding their interests in the region. The Indian Ocean is resource rich, strategically placed, and home to over two billion people. Island nations have become more important than ever, with Madagascar forming ties with Russia and the Comoros with Saudi Arabia. It is also through the region that China engages with Africa and the Middle East. This is a compelling account of the geopolitical significance of the Indian Ocean—showing how the region has taken centre stage in a new global contest.
Throughout history, the Indian Ocean has been an essential space for trade, commerce, and culture. Every European power has sought to dominate it. Now, after a lull in the postwar period, control of major shipping routes has once again become a critical aspect of every rising state’s ambition to be a global power.
Darshana M. Baruah shows how governments from Washington, DC, to Nairobi and Canberra are expanding their interests in the region. The Indian Ocean is resource rich, strategically placed, and home to over two billion people. Island nations have become more important than ever, with Madagascar forming ties with Russia and the Comoros with Saudi Arabia. It is also through the region that China engages with Africa and the Middle East. This is a compelling account of the geopolitical significance of the Indian Ocean—showing how the region has taken centre stage in a new global contest.
Darshana M. Baruah is a foreign policy scholar with a focus on maritime security, with experience at think tanks based in Delhi, Canberra, Tokyo, Sydney and Washington, DC. She established and directed the Indian Ocean Initiative at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC to highlight policy priorities through research, and she is currently based in Singapore where she leads the Indo-Pacific Defence and Strategy Programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). She regularly engages with policymakers and government officials across the world on issues of maritime security, the Indo-Pacific, and geopolitics.
