United States Strategy and the Indian Ocean Area
Author: James Marc Elster
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 378
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The Indian Ocean and US Grand Strategy
Author: Peter Dombrowski
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2014-12-15
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 162616150X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Indian Ocean, with its critical routes for global commerce, is a potentially volatile location for geopolitical strife. Even as the region’s role in the international economy and as a highway to conflict zones increases, the US has failed to advance a coherent strategy for protecting its interests in the Indian Ocean or for managing complex diplomatic relationships across the region. The Indian Ocean and US Grand Strategy presents a range of viewpoints about whether and how the US should alter its diplomatic and military strategies for this region. Contributors examine US interests in the Indian Ocean, assess the relative critical importance or imperiled nature of these interests, and propose solutions for American strategy ranging from minimal change to maximum engagement. The book concludes with a comparative assessment of these options and a discussion of their implications for US policymakers. This volume’s perspectives and analysis of the Indian Ocean region will be valued by scholars and students of US foreign policy, South Asia, and security studies as well as by diplomats, military officers, and other practitioners.
The Indian Ocean Region
Author: Anthony H. Cordesman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 1442240210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is one of the most areas of the world in human terms. This study provides a comprehensive overview of the subregions and countries in the IOR, drawing heavily on a new country risk assessment model developed by Abdullah Toukan, a senior associate with the Burke Chair at CSIS. It provides detailed graphs, tables, and maps covering the IOR as a whole, each major subregion, and each of the thirty-two countries in the region as well as the impact of U.S. and Chinese military forces.
Monsoon
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2011-09-13
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0812979206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentally change. In this pivotal examination of the countries known as “Monsoon Asia”—which include India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Burma, Oman, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Tanzania—bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan shows how crucial this dynamic area has become to American power. It is here that the fight for democracy, energy independence, and religious freedom will be lost or won, and it is here that American foreign policy must concentrate if the United States is to remain relevant in an ever-changing world. From the Horn of Africa to the Indonesian archipelago and beyond, Kaplan exposes the effects of population growth, climate change, and extremist politics on this unstable region, demonstrating why Americans can no longer afford to ignore this important area of the world.
United States-China-India Strategic Triangle in the Indian Ocean Region
Author: Dr Sithara Fernando
Publisher: KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
Published: 2015-04-15
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 938571404X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the strategic dynamics in the IOR are complex and involve many powers there is little doubt that the “strategic triangle” involving the US, China and India is one of the key traditional security issues facing the IOR. Given Sri Lanka’s geopolitically significant location in the IOR this strategic triangle is bound to have an impact on its national interests and security. The central questions raised by this volume are the following: What are the prospects of competition and cooperation within the strategic triangle? What structure or pattern will the triangular relations assume? How can stability be maintained in the triangular relationship in the interest of peace in the IOR? and What would be the impact of this strategic triangle on a small country such as Sri Lanka situated in a geopolitically significant location in the IOR? The dynamics of the US-China-India strategic triangle in the IOR will be complicated, containing elements of both competition and cooperation. The research contained in the substantive chapters of this volume present a multiplicity of views on the possible patterns that the strategic triangle can assume. Based on Harry Harding’s typology of the strategic triangle in international affairs, these include: one mediating the conflict between the other two; two-against-one; and all-working-together. The multiplicity of patterns that the strategic triangle could assume indicate that there is likely to be considerable fluctuation in its structure. What is important in maintaining stability is that the competition is not allowed to become unmanageable, and the fostering of cooperation based on common interests. The US-China-India strategic triangle poses Sri Lanka as a country situated in a geopolitically significant location in the IOR with both challenges and opportunities. The most fundamental challenge is posed by the tendency of each of these three major powers to subordinate Sri Lanka to their grand strategic objectives and interaction with each other. The fundamental opportunity presented to Sri Lanka by the strategic triangle is that of using its geopolitical importance to each of these three major powers by virtue of its location in the IOR to its own advantage in a way that best serves its national interests.
United States Strategy for the Indian Ocean Area. in the 1970's
Author: Alan Frederick Martin
Publisher:
Published: 1972
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Indian Ocean and the Superpowers
Author: Rasul Bux Rais
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780389206958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study focuses on the political and strategic implications of the presence in the Indian Ocean of the United States and the Soviet Union. The author examines the geopolitics of the region in historical perspective and describes the evolution of U.S. and Soviet strategy in the Indian Ocean. The central theme of the book is that the naval deployments of the superpowers should be seen in the context of each power's economic and security interests rather than in the context of military rivalry. The book provides an incisive and comprehensive account of U.S. and Soviet strategies in the Indian Ocean by establishing and integrating the links between the economic, political, and strategic dynamics of the situation.
The Indian Ocean as a New Political and Security Region
Author: Frédéric Grare
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-01-18
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 3030917975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses the emergence of the Indian Ocean as security complex and a strategic space of central importance and also looks at its prospective future. As well as US-China rivalry, the India-China rivalry is now the defining factor in the Indian Ocean – irrespective of the strategic asymmetry. This new situation has opened a space for middle-powers, old and new, to intervene. The authors argue that this situation may turn into an additional source of instability and that the creation of an inclusive and comprehensive regional security architecture, as well as the strengthening of regional multilateralism, should be the priority of all stakeholders in the coming decade.
Seapower and Strategy in the Indian Ocean
Author: Alvin J. Cottrell
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'For the strategic studies student or maritime affairs buff the book is a must. No where outside of far more costly texts or seminars will this much knowledge on the maritime affairs of this region be imparted. Sage Publications are to be congratulated upon the format and publication of this timely work.' -- Military Journal 'This brief work is yet another in the growing collection of generally excellent policy-related monographs on international affairs underwritten by the Center for Strategic and International Studies of Georgetown University in Washington, DC.' -- The Middle East Journal, Summer 1983 'Authored by distinguished scholars, with valuable insights and descriptions and a detailed bibliography,
The Indian Ocean in United States Strategy
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Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essay makes a quick survey of the Indian Ocean and its littoral countries. It examines the interests of outside major world powers, several of which have had colonial interests in various parts of the area. The threat of the USSR's filling the power vacuum created by Great Britain's withdrawal of its military forces from the area is examined. The United States' future role as the major free world power is assessed. Guidelines for future United States foreign policy are recommended.
