Abstract The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is becoming increasingly significant in the world arena, with the United States, India and China—the most important stakeholders in…
Topic: Maritime Security
Abstract The Indians will have to work smart as well as hard to stage a meaningful presence in the South China Sea, overcoming the advantages…
Abstract This study first shows that China’s naval strategy has undergone two major changes: from “near-coast defense” prior to the mid-1980s to “near-seas active defense”…
Abstract While the maritime doctrine was published by the Indian navy in 2004 and improved upon in 2007, the core interests identified were as seen…
Abstract As the world’s economic and strategic “center of gravity” shifts from the Euro-Atlantic area to the Asia-Pacific, the Indian Ocean is emerging as an…
Continue reading Ericksona, Andrew S., Ladwig C. Walter III, and Justin D. Mikolayc
Abstract We take aim at “offshore balancing,” a foreign-policy concept that has come into vogue in a United States beset by war weariness, a stagnant…
Abstract In recent years, China’s strategic community has emerged as an increasingly vocal and influential constituent of Chinese policy debates. This article focuses on Chinese…
Abstract This article argues that an increasingly sea-power-minded China will neither shelter passively in coastal waters, nor throw itself into competition with the United States…
Abstract Maritime security concerns in the South China Sea are increasing for several reasons: higher volumes of shipping traffic, protection of exclusive economic zone resources,…
Abstract As maritime trading becomes an increasingly important element of the modern Chinese economy, concerns in Beijing are being raised about the safety of vital…
Abstract Maritime security in the South China Sea faces a number of challenges, ranging from lower-level nontraditional threats to traditional politicostrategic considerations, including the potential…
Abstract China’s recent claims to a large “U-shaped” area in the South China Sea, involving the disputed Spratly and Paracel Islands, has given rise to…
Abstract Despite its existence on the Chinese maps for more than six decades, the U-shaped line, as a traditional maritime boundary line of China in…
Abstract This article examines recent developments in the East China Sea maritime disputes, focusing primarily on the Principled Consensus agreed on by China and Japan…
Abstract This article discusses one of the most difficult disputes in the world, the territorial dispute over the Tiaoyu Islands. This dispute has defied solution…
