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Informationen zum Autor Christian Bouchard is the Coordinator of Environmental Studies (French) at Laurentian University! Canada! a founding member of the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG)! and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Indian Ocean.Shafick Osman is a Research Associate at the Florida International University (USA)! Deputy Editor-in-chief of Outre-Terre (France) and a member of the Society for Indian Ocean Studies (New Delhi) and IORG. Zusammenfassung This book provides a rare attempt to cover various issues related to geopolitics, international relations, history, security, anthropology and ocean/environment of Indian Ocean islands and their societies. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Indian Ocean Islands: Illustrated cases on geopolitics, ocean, environment Christian Bouchard and Shafick Osman 1. Balancing and bandwagoning: explaining shifts in Sri Lankan foreign policy Rajni Nayanthara Gamage 2. Cocos and Christmas Islands: building Australia’s strategic role in the Indian Ocean David Brewster and Rory Medcalf 3. Towards a workers’ history of the Chagos archipelago Marina Carter 4. ‘Indo-Mauritians’ and the Indian Ocean: literacy accounts and anthropological readings Mathieu Claveyrolas 5. Small islands’ understanding of maritime security: the cases of Mauritius and Seychelles James A. Malcolm and Linganaden Murday 6. The European Union and the Indian Ocean Islands: identifying opportunities for developing a more ambitious and comprehensive strategy Erwan Lannon 7. Tropical cyclones and coastal communities: the dialectics of social and environmental change in the Sundarban delta Debojyoti Das
