Abstract India’s rising engagement with the East is prominent feature of its rising maritime character inherited from its rich maritime culture. This falls in accordance…
Topic: Maritime Security
Abstract This collection of papers comes for a major international conference on Indo-Pacific maritime security convened by the NSC in March 2016. The Indo-Pacific is…
Abstract China is the largest country in the region in terms of economic strength, military might and land area. Since 2013, China has begun trying…
Abstract This article takes issue with approaches to the dispute between Sri Lanka and India over fishing rights in the Palk Bay which couch the…
Abstract India’s relations with its neighbours in the maritime domain have received less scholarly attention. Those studies that deal with India’s relations with its South…
Abstract There is raging speculation about the potential implications of China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR)/Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for the global order, spheres…
Abstract Southeast Asia has sat atop China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI). By and large, most Southeast Asian countries hailed China’s MSRI, but their responses…
Abstract This article argues that the origins and theoretical underpinnings of Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative can actually be traced back to the mid-1980s,…
Abstract This article analyzes China’s geopolitical maneuvers in the wake of the International Arbitral Court ruling over the South China Sea territorial disputes brought up…
Abstract The rise of China triggers a hot debate in the United States as well as in China concerning whether a rising power can coordinate…
Abstract The United States and China’s antithetical stances on freedom of navigation in the South China Sea have consistently caused military tensions in East Asia.…
Abstract Russian policy in Asia and in the Arctic share significantly overlapping elements. One such element is the precedent set when the UN awarded the…
China and the United States are locked in a high-stakes contest for naval supremacy. The United States has the upper hand, but China’s rapidly modernizing…
Abstract Geographically,India is not a country in the region of the South China Sea,nor is it a country concerned in the issue on a geopolitical…
Abstract This article argues that a change in institutional strategy enables The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to manage its great power relations and…
