Publication Year: 2019 Asia Rising: Ships of State? Abstract: The commercial-strategic linkages and state support for PRC port and shipping ventures resemble a twenty-first-century version…
Topic: Maritime Security
Publication Year: 2020 China’s Global Navy—Today’s Challenge for the United States and the U.S. Navy Abstract: The balance of power in the Indo-Pacific is shifting…
Publication Year: 2018 “Getting Serious about Strategy in the South China Sea”: What Analysis Is Required to Compel a New U.S. Strategy in the South…
Abstract: Low-level instability is to be expected with maritime boundary disputes or when power competition occurs at sea; however, sustained escalatory cycles are unlikely because…
Publication Year: 2019 India’s Persian desire – analysing India’s maritime trade strategy vis-à-vis the Port of Chabahar Abstract: Since the turn of the century, India…
Abstract: This article examines the major shipbuilding programmes of the PLA Navy (PLAN) with the purpose of assessing the capabilities of the shipyards engaged in…
Abstract: In global politics, the relations between India and China have long been branded by the countries’ customary rivalry. Bitterness and resentment between the two…
Abstract: India–Japan security cooperation is a critical component in the evolving security mechanism of the Indo-Pacific region. Both states are secondary states in the international…
Abstract: Sovereignty in the maritime domain is governed by the international laws and conventions, particularly the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea…
Abstract: India’s maritime philosophy has been clearly outlined in both literature, and practice. From a defensive realist perspective, India’s approach to the high seas has…
Abstract: India and the US have crossed the proverbial Rubicon in their bilateral ties, with maritime cooperation being the mainstay. The US-India navy-to-navy cooperation has…
Abstract: Maritime trade is a key contributor to economy in many countries particularly those that are bordering on oceans. Sri Lanka is geographically located in…
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Abstract: India, China and Japan, the economic big three in Asia, is heavily dependent on maritime trade in terms of importation of energy and other…
Abstract: At a time when there are instances of lack of participation in binding dispute resolution mechanisms under the UNCLOS, the Bay of Bengal Arbitrations…
Abstract: This paper reviews the existing multilateral structures in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) – notably the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) – in the…
