The regional great game in the Indian Ocean and India’s evolving maritime strategy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Sankalp Gurjar
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Maritime Strategy ◽  
Great Game

scholarly journals India and China in the Indian Ocean: Changing Dimensions of Maritime Strategy

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anju Lis Kurian ◽  
◽  
C. Vinodan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Naval Power ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Maritime Strategy ◽  
Security Affairs ◽  
India And China

In Asian and global power politics a maritime strategic angle concentrates on the value of fortifying and controlling sea lines of communications (SLOCs) for stability, economic growth, and development of nations. Consequently, both India and China are snooping to control SLOCs and safeguard their emergent and escalating worldwide interests. The advancement in and expansion of naval power satisfies the corresponding nationalist aspirations of Beijing and New Delhi. As a result, the development of their maritime capabilities would have a greater impact on the naval security architecture in the Indian Ocean. The hike in Chinese engagements across the Indian Ocean widely known as the String of Pearl’s stratagem is principally stimulated by a policy of maritime encirclement of India. Struggle to secure tactical energy resources which are quickly revolutionizing their navies could induce clashes and have major repercussions for global security affairs. Harmonious handling of both China’s and India’s cooperation will be crucial for regional as well as international peace and opulence shortly and everyone looks upon a fabulous Asia reflected in the world. Thus, this paper analyses the underlying factors that motivate both countries to have ambitious objectives in the Indian Ocean and could find out that securing energy is one of the driving forces in securing maritime dominance across the Indian Ocean.

Maritime strategy of Pakistan: Development and future prospects

2021 ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Gleb G. Makarevich
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Maritime Security ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Maritime Strategy ◽  
Historical Methods

The Indian Ocean accounts half of the world's container shipments, two-thirds of oil product shipments and a third of bulk cargo. Pakistan as a significant regional power laying claims to a higher role in regional trade. But it demands effective naval forces capable of resisting both traditional (possible blockade of Pakistan's seaports if an armed conflict with India takes place) and non-traditional threats (piracy in the Strait of Hormuz). The article examines the evolution of Pakistan's naval strategy from the moment of gaining independence to the present day. The article provides a brief historical overview of the development of the country's naval strategy, analyzes the place of the Pakistani Navy in the armed forces, their role in the implementation of the China-Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC), considers Pakistan's initiatives in the field of regional maritime security, as well as the processes of modernizing the fleet. The author believes that the role of the Navy in Pakistan's grand strategy will only increase due to both economic and regional security factors. The author claims that the role of the maritime strategy and the Pakistani Navy in the country's foreign policy will increase, which is explained by the need to ensure maritime security to implement the key economic project of the CPEC, as well to build a regional security system in the Indian Ocean resistant to all types of threats. The author invokes historical methods to analyze the evolution of Pakistani maritime strategy and hermeneutics to consider the current development of the strategy and its prospects.

Afghanistan: The Great Game Revisited—A Review Article

1981 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akbar S. Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
World Power ◽  
Four Books ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Great Game

The four books reviewed are different in discipline and approach and written for widely different audiences. They are, however, linked in their articulation as a contemporary response to the larger political situation in and around Afghanistan. Certain fundamental issues are raised that relate to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, for instance, will the Russians continue their advance to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean (as suggested by the proponents of the Great Game thesis)? An understanding of the current situation in Afghanistan will provide clues to the possible future outcome of the Russian invasion. On that outcome depends the present balance of world power. If the Russians reach the warm waters of the Gulf, they are ideally poised to threaten South Asia and the Middle East. An understanding of the situation in Afghanistan is thus of primary importance.

scholarly journals India Maritime Strategy Towards China

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 3244-3251
Author(s):  
Noraini Zulkafli ◽  
Mohd Ezrisyah Md Shah
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Major Power ◽  
Strategic Value ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Maritime Strategy ◽  
The Impact

The strategic value of Indian Ocean has invited lots of attention from a major power.  For India, the Indian Ocean shows its domain and obvious superiority that it has held for some centuries. However, there seem to be an arise from China presence in the region. This action has prompted India as the leading actor in the area and created a diversified approach to mitigating the issue.  How should India respond to this? What would be the impact of this phenomenon on India maritime strategy? Is China presence should be defined as a threat for India to continue its ambition as a prospect dominant global key player, or it produces opportunity that India should grab in order to remain relevant in Indian Ocean perspective. The objective of this article is to discuss the actions taken by India to enhance its national interest in the India Ocean. This qualitative approach has using secondary data from 2010- 2018. The finding of this study are 1) India has come out with a maritime strategy to counterbalance China, 2) the Act east policy appeared to be a soft power for India to pursuit more strategic goals as compared to the previous Look East policy which seems to be typically rhetoric and concentrated on economic friendship, 3) India continues to develop cooperation with the superpower and major power countries such as the United States, Australia and Japan.

Three-ness: Healing world politics with epistemic compassion

Politics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
LHM Ling
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Watershed Development ◽  
Global Responsibility ◽  
Epistemic Violence ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Great Game ◽  
The Silk Road

Epistemic compassion can help to heal world politics. It mitigates almost six centuries of Eurocentric ‘epistemic violence’ and ‘epistemicide’ with a trialectical epistemology that bridges even seemingly irreconcilable opposites. Buddhists call this process Interbeing. I draw on Daoist yin/yang dynamics for epistemology and the ancient Silk Roads as an exemplar. Subsequently, I apply this analysis to a watershed development in our contemporary political economy: China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI). A $1 trillion investment scheme to link China with Europe and Russia through Central Asia, Africa, and the Indian Ocean, the BRI provokes charges of reproducing Europe’s 19th-century’s Great Game on a 21st-century scale. A trialectical epistemology offers another mode and model of global interaction for the BRI. It highlights the possibility of local agency and global responsibility for the BRI. I ask: Can epistemic compassion turn this 5.0 version of Asian Capitalism into a 2.0 version of the Silk Road Ethos? The potential exists, I argue.

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