ABOUT THE BOOK
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The extended Indian Ocean space
from the shores of Africa to Australasia, arguably, holds the potential to
define the contours of the emerging global geo-strategic and economic
architecture; it is rich in energy and other resources; includes flashpoints
involving extra –regional power; is host to a few of the fastest growing
economies and emerging power centres; and some of the crucial sea lanes pass
through this space. At the same time, it is increasingly an area of rivalries, trans-national crime,
non-traditional threats to security, tensions and disputes, highlighting the
need for strategic and economic cooperation, particularly amongst the littoral
and hinterland countries. The somewhat slow to take off Indian Ocean Rim
Cooperation (IOR-ARC) initiative could become one small effort to initiate such
cooperation.
ABOUT Author
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Dr. Vijay Sakhuja is Director (Research), Indian Council of World
Affairs, New Delhi.
He is the author of ‘Asian Maritime Power in the Twenty-first
Century: Strategic Transactions China, India and southeast Asia (2011) and
‘Confidence Building from the Sea: An
Indian Initiative’ (2000), editor of India
Vietnam Strategic Partnership: Exploring Vistas for Expanded Cooperation
(2011), and co-editor of Nagapatinam to Swarndweepa: Reflections on
Chola Naval Expedition to Southeast Asia (2010) and Marine Biodiversity & Fisheries
Exploitation In The Indian Ocean: Threats And Opportunities (2009). Dr. Vijay
Sakhuja is also Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast
Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore
since 2006. Earlier, he was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Air Power
Studies, Observer Research Foundation, and Research Fellow at the Institute for
Defence Studies and Analyses, and United Service Institution of India, all at New Delhi.