Description
includes flashpoints involving extra-regional powers; is host to a few of the fastest growing economies and emerging powr centres; and some of the crucial sea lanes pass through this space. At the same time, it is increasingly an area of rivalries, trans-national crime, non-traditional threats to security, tensions and disputes, highlighting the need for strategic and economic cooperation, particularly amongst the littoral and hinterland countries. The somewhat slow to take off Indian Ocean Rim Cooperation (IOR-ARC) initiative could become one smell effort to initiate such cooperation. The importance for closer regional co-operation amongst the countries of the Indian Ocean cannot be over-emphasised. There are positive indications that IOR-ARC may take on a renewed salience in the future due to renewed regional interest; it is likely that Indian Ocean linkages will improve, not just in matters of trade but also on a number of issues including non-traditional security threats and challenges such as sea piracy, climage change, food security, human security and environmental issues.
About the Author
Dr. Vijay Sakhuja is Director (Research), Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi. He is the author of 'Asian Matitime Power in the Twenty-first Century: Strategic Transactions China, India and Southeast Asia' (2011) and 'Confidence Building from the Sea: An Indian Initiative' (2000), editor of India Vietnam Strategic Partneship: Exploring Vistas for Expanded Cooperation (2011), and co-editor of Nagapatinam to Swarndweepa: Reflections on Chola Naval Expedition to Southeast Asia (2010) and Marine Biodiversity & Fisheries Exploitation In The Indian Ocean: Threats And Opportunities (2009). Dr. Vijay Sakhuja is also Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapor since 2006. Earlier, he was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies, Observer Research Foundation, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, and United Service Institute of India, all at New Delhi.
Book Information
ISBN 9788182745988
Author Vijay Sakhuja
Format Hardback
Page Count 204
Imprint Pentagon Press
Publisher Pentagon Press
About the Author
Dr. Vijay Sakhuja is Director (Research), Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi. He is the author of 'Asian Matitime Power in the Twenty-first Century: Strategic Transactions China, India and Southeast Asia' (2011) and 'Confidence Building from the Sea: An Indian Initiative' (2000), editor of India Vietnam Strategic Partneship: Exploring Vistas for Expanded Cooperation (2011), and co-editor of Nagapatinam to Swarndweepa: Reflections on Chola Naval Expedition to Southeast Asia (2010) and Marine Biodiversity & Fisheries Exploitation In The Indian Ocean: Threats And Opportunities (2009). Dr. Vijay Sakhuja is also Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapor since 2006. Earlier, he was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies, Observer Research Foundation, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, and United Service Institute of India, all at New Delhi.
Book Information
ISBN 9788182745988
Author Vijay Sakhuja
Format Hardback
Page Count 204
Imprint Pentagon Press
Publisher Pentagon Press
