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This book explores the 'Indo-Pacific' as an ambiguous and hotly contested regional security construction. It critically examines the major drivers behind the revival of classical geopolitical concepts and their deployment through different national lenses.
List of contents
- Preface
- 1: Introduction: Constructions of the Indo-Pacific Region
- 2: Maritime Regional Theories: Oceans and Seas
- 3: The Return of Traditional Geopolitical Thought: The Rise of the Indo-Pacific Concept
- 4: The New 'Multiplex' Cold War in the Indo-Pacific
- 5: The US 'Pivot' in the Indo-Pacific
- 6: The Role of India in the Indo-Pacific
- 7: Regional Middle Powers and the Indo-Pacific Strategic Narrative
- 8: The Rise of China and the Indo-Pacific
- 9: Conclusion: Continuities, Change and Challenges
About the author
Timothy Doyle, is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Adelaide in Australia, where he teaches Global Environmental Politics, International Political Economy, the International Relations of the Indo-Pacific, and Political Fiction. He was Founding Chair of The Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre (IPGRC) in the School of Social Sciences in the Faculty of Arts. He has served as Chair of the Indian Ocean Rim Association's Academic Group, based in Mauritius. He is also Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations at Keele University in the United Kingdom. At Keele, he served as Founding Head of the Research Centre for Politics, International Relations and Environment (RC for SPIRE). At the time of writing, Doyle is also Distinguished Research Fellow at the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI), Curtin University, Western Australia. He is Chief Editor of the
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, Taylor and Francis.
Dennis Rumley is a well-known political geographer from the 'Newcastle School', is the Foundation Editor of the
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region as well as being outgoing Foundation Chair of the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG). He has taught and researched at the University of Western Australia, the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, and more recently at Curtin University where he was Professor of Indian Ocean Studies. For the past 30 years, Dennis Rumley's research has centred principally on Australia's regional relations, first, with the Asia-Pacific, second, with the south-west Pacific and then with the Indian Ocean Region. The latter led to a series of collaborative projects on various aspects of the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean Region with IORG colleagues, especially Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle.
Summary
This book explores the 'Indo-Pacific' as an ambiguous and hotly contested regional security construction. It critically examines the major drivers behind the revival of classical geopolitical concepts and their deployment through different national lenses.
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a very welcomed and insightful critical analysis of the Indo-Pacific...The task of giving some sense to this still quite ambiguous regional conceptualization is brilliantly achieved through a multidimensional analysis that considers geopolitical thinking influences, great and middle powers situations, interactions and narratives, as well as ocean regionalism and the experience of the Indian Ocean Rim Association.
