India’s Role in the Indian Ocean Region and Its Links to the Indo-Pacific

Anirban Sen
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The main goal of this article will be to show how India’s role in the Indian Ocean region has changed over time and how it is linked to the wider Indo-Pacific region. In the beginning, the importance of the Indian Ocean to India’s overall naval security on a historical basis is pointed out. It is shown that Indian Ocean was the main conduit for carrying out trade with the subcontinent and also for the creation of the British Raj even though it did not receive the same attention from the land-based Indian states. Following this, the article moves on to how following its independence in 1947 India slowly started to realize the importance of the Indian Ocean and later on the wider Indo-Pacific to its national security. Step by step it is shown how India’s maritime policy has evolved over the years. In this respect, the importance of the decade of the 1990s is highlighted when India began to open up not only economically but in all other ways as well. The role of the United States in India’s naval expansion is also explained in detail during both the Obama and the Trump administrations. Here specifically the article focuses on the ‘pivot to Asia’ strategy of the Obama administration and how it impacted India. After this it is described how President Trump further pushed India to take a more active stance in the Indo-Pacific region. Next, the Indo-Pacific policy of the present Modi government is studied along with a detailed analysis of the ‘extended neighborhood’ concept in India’s Indo-Pacific policy. India’s relation with the island nations of the Indo-Pacific is scrutinized in a separate section. India’s role in the QUAD forum is also properly discussed. Finally, India’s involvement in the three main multilateral initiatives in the Indo-Pacific is laid out before coming to the concluding section.
印度在印度洋地区的角色及其与印太地区的联系
本文的主要目的是展示印度在印度洋地区的角色是如何随着时间的推移而变化的,以及它是如何与更广泛的印太地区联系在一起的。首先,从历史的角度指出了印度洋对印度整体海军安全的重要性。这表明,印度洋是与次大陆进行贸易的主要渠道,也是英国统治的主要渠道,尽管它没有得到印度陆地国家的同样重视。在此之后,本文继续讨论印度在1947年独立后如何慢慢开始意识到印度洋以及后来更广泛的印度-太平洋对其国家安全的重要性。本书一步一步地展示了印度海洋政策多年来的演变。在这方面,1990年代的重要性是突出的,当时印度不仅在经济上而且在所有其他方面都开始开放。在奥巴马和特朗普政府期间,美国在印度海军扩张中的作用也得到了详细的解释。本文特别关注奥巴马政府的“重返亚洲”战略及其对印度的影响。在此之后,描述了特朗普总统如何进一步推动印度在印太地区采取更积极的立场。其次,对莫迪现政府的印太政策进行了研究,并对印度印太政策中的“延伸邻国”概念进行了详细分析。印度与印度洋-太平洋岛国的关系将在单独的章节中详细讨论。印度在四方合作论坛中的作用也得到了适当的讨论。最后,在结束部分之前,介绍了印度参与印太地区三个主要多边倡议的情况。
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