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{"title":"Travelling pasts: the politics of cultural heritage in the Indian Ocean World","authors":"Erika J. Techera","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2020.1760603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2020.1760603","url":null,"abstract":"towards the Korean Peninsula, but its historical complexes within this region have limited its role. The evolution of the South China Sea issue blurs the line between military and paramilitary actions which the author believes creates maritime security challenges for US and ASEAN. Chapter 9 is a case study of sea level rise in the Pearl River Delta, while Chapter 10 presents a good example of geopolitical calculation of energy and power, arguing ‘the restoration of American energy primacy and the shift in power from producers to consumers is favorable to the US strategy of forward defense through maritime power projection in Asia’ (p. 174). The resurgence of US oil and natural gas is the second chance for the US continuing its global hegemony. The last part of this volume ‘the Arctic & the future of the World’s Oceans’ includes 5 chapters which provide a relatively insightful observations of the less noticed Arctic. The balance between environmentalism and exploitation in the Arctic seems to be the key for the sustainable development which essentially means the balance between national interests and global interests (Chapter 11). Chapters 12 and 13 discuss two soft issues in the Arctic discourse, national imagination and fisheries. Chapter 12 calls for the US public to claim its Arctic interests by having a better understanding of the Arctic. Chapter 13 takes a more internationalist approach on fisheries management in the Arctic and explores the possible international governance for this issue. Chapter 14 again draws us back to the cruel reality of power competition in the Arctic between Russia and NATO. This volume is beneficial for readers to have a broader view on the maritime issues. This volume tries very hard to not mention the US in the title, the keywords Eurasia, Indian Ocean, Pacific Asia and the Arctic in the title do not link to the US directly, yet the shadow of the US is present in most of the chapters. Nationalism and internationalism in maritime security in this book are both included which somehow leads the reader forward and backward at the same time; a good example of the reality we are living with. Given the complexity of the issues discussed in this volume, the volume might have been better edited if it was categorized by issues rather than regions.","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"16 1","pages":"221 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19480881.2020.1760603","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42788487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The new world disorder and the Indian imperative","authors":"N. Roy","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2020.1767384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2020.1767384","url":null,"abstract":"This ambitious and incisive book The New World Order and the Indian Imperative details the changing international order and offers a succinct analysis of the state of the world today, which is now in complete flux. The book begins with a prologue that narrates the events towards the close of the last decade. These events depict the fluidity of the global balance of power: Trump’s ‘America first’ and ‘Isolationist policy’; the aggressive and expansionist rise of China; the emergence of ‘illiberal democracies’; great power ambition; ‘strongmen,’ and the return of identity politics. The authors contend that the world order has led to marked tensions globally. Amidst political polarization, technological transformation, and major global power shifts, uncertainty surrounds the international liberal order, which therefore raises the obvious question of “where do we go from here?” New centres of power, new alliances and new rivalries are emerging, putting pressure on institutions governing global trade and security. As power is shifting and dispersing, domains for geopolitical rivalry or participation are also extending. The central aim of the book, therefore, is to describe and understand this phenomenon of disorder and provide a solution to it (p.xviii). Dr Shashi Tharoor and Dr Samir Saran, two of the most influential thinkers and shapers of policy for India and beyond, have united on this eager and promising plan, which blueprints the role that India could play on the world stage in a new international order. elements: technology highly monopolised by the global north favored a market-based arrangement; failure or negligence of the global north to live up to its financial obligations in areas of climate change and development; research and knowledge dependent on the paramountcy of the global north. The that the climate change negotiations and sustainable development discourse carried over various conventions have been unsuccessful in fully addressing climate governance. So at that point, what are the solutions to How would we defuse polarization and","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"16 1","pages":"217 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19480881.2020.1767384","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49041435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decrypting Sri Lanka’s ‘black box’ amidst an Indo–China ‘great game’","authors":"S. De Silva","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2019.1640575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2019.1640575","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Competition is a natural byproduct of major powers navigating an anarchic world. Small states operating in such a milieu however, face a dilemma when strategizing their foreign policy. At present, two regional behemoths – India and China – remain locked in a Realpolitik affray as they vie for influence by enticing and attracting South Asian states through economic, security and diplomatic initiatives. How do these structural dynamics impact Sri Lanka’s policymaking process? Moreover, has the island been able to mount a timely and appropriate response to structural dictates? In what way has domestic variables influenced and channeled policy preferences in Sri Lanka since 2015? By adopting a Neoclassical Realist frame of analysis, this paper appraises the impact made by the external environment and domestic intervening variables on the island’s foreign policy trajectory. It concludes that domestic intervening variables drew the island away from optimal choices in its relations with India and China.","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"16 1","pages":"146 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19480881.2019.1640575","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48873671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chief Editor Foreword","authors":"S. Chaturvedi","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2020.1781400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2020.1781400","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"16 1","pages":"121 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19480881.2020.1781400","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41438532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The rise and return of the Indo-Pacific","authors":"C. Bouchard","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2020.1767382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2020.1767382","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"16 1","pages":"212 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19480881.2020.1767382","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41809734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards a networked strategy: framework for maritime South Asia","authors":"Medha Bisht","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2020.1770950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2020.1770950","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article revisits the widely cited SAGAR speech by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, delivered on 12 March 2015, at Port Louis, Mauritius. It takes the speech as a foundation to revisit the meaning of maritime South Asia, bringing to fore a ‘networked identity’ of the Ocean. This approach, while incorporating a dimension of resilience, also offers a conceptual/policy window to deal with complex traditional and non-traditional threats emanating from maritime space. Concepts from network literature, such as connections, relationality and communication are employed to invoke networked imageries of the Ocean at a metaphorical, conceptual and praxeological level. In arguing for international/interregional maritime cooperation, SDG-14 is presented as an essential background condition for effective translation of SAGAR speech into this novel framework, which helps in raising critical questions related to maritime security and development.","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"16 1","pages":"182 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19480881.2020.1770950","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47226988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"India–China maritime competition: the security dilemma at sea","authors":"Lisa Otto","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2020.1702766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2020.1702766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"16 1","pages":"215 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19480881.2020.1702766","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44829883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago? Strategic implications for Diego Garcia from a UK-US perspective","authors":"S. Bashfield","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2020.1770949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2020.1770949","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the implications for the U.S. military base in Diego Garcia, located in the Chagos Archipelago, in the event that sovereignty of the atoll is ceded from the U.K. to Mauritius. Diego Garcia has become a critically important military base, facilitating U.S. power projection into the Indian Ocean, Middle East and Africa. The legality and future of British sovereignty over the atoll was challenged in 2019 in both the International Court of Justice and United Nations General Assembly. This article finds that Mauritian sovereignty of Diego Garcia would have considerable adverse consequences for U.S. military activity, potentially prohibiting many of the core functions the facility currently performs, as under U.K. sovereignty. Further, this article examines the strategic utility in Diego Garcia for the U.S. and U.K. governments, which demonstrates why these two nations are willing to endure considerable reputational costs and international backlash for retention of the atoll.","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"16 1","pages":"166 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19480881.2020.1770949","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43503366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sino-Indian competition in the Indian Ocean island countries: the scope for small state agency","authors":"D. McDougall, P. Taneja","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2020.1704987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2020.1704987","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Discussion of Sino-Indian competition in the Indian Ocean region has focused on the two major powers, but there is scope to give more attention to the role of the island states. Using a structure-agency approach, this article assesses the agency of four Indian Ocean island states in relation to Sino-Indian competition: Sri Lanka, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles. In the context of India’s and China’s engagement with the island states, one can analyze the factors that either enhance or detract from the agency of those island states. These states have important economic links with both India and China without being overly dependent on either. India plays the leading security role, but China has also been developing its security links. Political consensus within an island state enhances leverage vis-à-vis the external powers, particularly in Mauritius and Seychelles; Sri Lanka and the Maldives have more conflictual politics, giving rise to greater Sino-Indian competition.","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"16 1","pages":"124 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19480881.2020.1704987","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41831621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Zoological pioneer: was the Mughal Emperor Jahangir the first scientist to describe a Madagascan lemur?","authors":"P. Jarman","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2019.1699751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2019.1699751","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Mughal emperor Jahangir (reigned 1605–1627) was a knowledgeable naturalist with a keen interest in exotic fauna. In 1612 C.E. a strange primate was obtained from the Portuguese in Goa and brought to his court. The emperor’s written description of the animal and a contemporary painting suggest it was a lemur and therefore from Madagascar. Although many animals from the Moluccas and several from eastern Africa reached Jahangir, this is the only Madagascan animal to do so. Jahangir’s careful description of the animal and an illustration commissioned for his memoirs pre-date European scientific descriptions by a dozen years and reveal Jahangir as a fore-runner of comparative, descriptive zoology.","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"16 1","pages":"202 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19480881.2019.1699751","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48183146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}