Abstract: India’s recently released maritime security strategy emphasizes MDA as a critical requirement for maritime security and an essential tool to deter adversaries and maintain…
Topic: Maritime Security
Abstract: This essay examines China’s maritime strategy in the Indian Ocean and possible Indian responses. It first considers why China is interested in the Indian…
Abstract: This essay posits that India’s security role in the Asia Pacific is animated by its concerns over rising threats to freedom of navigation in…
Abstract: The idea of China dotting the Indian Ocean littoral with points of influence was also picked up by the media, which adopted the phrase…
Abstract The MSR is one component of Xi’s OBOR initiative, with the other component being the Silk Road Economic Belt connecting Europe and Asia. Since…
Abstract Although China has not formally put forward an Indo-Pacific naval strategy, the new national defense strategy of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Fighting Regional…
Abstract I argue that China’s failure to try to co-opt India as a partner or address some of its concerns is a mistake. China’s projection…
Abstract This essay examines the core U.S. interests in the South China Sea and argues that the United States should ensure that freedom of navigation…
Abstract […] As a Southeast Asian state, Singapore has an interest in ensuring that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) remains cohesive and united…
Abstract Even though UNCLOS permits continuous and expeditious passage-necessitated by needs of navigation-a maneuver undertaken solely for the purpose of scoring political points would be…
Abstract In December 2015, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet issued a tough warning against China’s attempt to establish “so-called military zones” around its…
Abstract This study assumes that the EU can contribute to a constructive transformation of regional conflicts in the South China Sea. To prove this assumption,…
Abstract The Philippines and Japan have evolved a security partnership in the face of China’s maritime expansion in the South and East China Seas. The…
Abstract Whether you hold a crystal ball passed down from Thucydides or are trained in the offensive realist tradition, your predictions about the future of…
Summary The article explores allegations over China’s economic aggression in its territorial disputes with the Philippines and Vietnam over South China Sea as of January…
