1. The advent of China's Indian Ocean strategy -- 2. Between East and West, India's revived engagements -- 3. The US, the reluctant offshore balancer of the Indian Ocean rivalries -- 4. The United Kingdom and France: a European struggle for regional influence -- 5. The Gulf Arab…
This book analyses the emergence of the Indian Ocean as security complex and a strategic space of central importance and also looks at its prospective future. As well as US-China rivalry, the India-China rivalry is now the defining factor in the Indian Ocean--irrespective of the…
