Journal of the Indian Ocean Region最新文献

{"title":"India–Africa relations: changing horizons","authors":"R. Srinivasan","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2022.2070942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2022.2070942","url":null,"abstract":"with par-ticular reference to Australian engagement. This extends to the broader Indo-Paci fi c, including the Indian Ocean region. He is the author of Asia Paci fi c in World Politics, 2nd edition (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016).","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"18 1","pages":"77 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49280134","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":"Sustainable exploitation of deep seabed mineral resources in the Indo-Pacific through practical cooperation under the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative","authors":"N. Agarwala","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2021.2001986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2021.2001986","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In order to reduce global temperature rise to 1.5-2oC against the pre-industrial values as agreed in the Paris Agreement, the world community has begun focusing on renewable energy. This effort requires nearly double the quantity of minerals as required for a 4oC rise and has forced humanity to look at exploiting deep seabed minerals. While extracting minerals from the Area Beyond the National Jurisdiction requires rules and permission of the International Seabed Authority, those in the national jurisdiction require permission of the concerned state. With focus on ‘sustainability’ as defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals and on Security and Growth for all in the Region, the Indian Prime Minister announced the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative in 2019 with ‘Marine Resource’ exploitation as one of the pillars of mutual cooperation and growth. Accordingly, this article explores the possible practical cooperation for sustainable deep seabed mineral exploitation in the Indo-Pacific under the IPOI.","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"17 1","pages":"289 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44303249","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":"Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative on regional stability in South Asia","authors":"Z. Ahmed, Md Ziaul Haque Sheikh","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2021.2001985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2021.2001985","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 By focusing on domestic and geopolitical factors, this study aims to understand the impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on regional stability in South Asia. It critically examines China’s investments in Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to understand how that impacts local economies and politics as well as the geopolitical climate considering the rivalry between China and India. As China seeks to promote alternatives for its partners to decrease their dependence on India and India-dominated institutions, there appears to be a negative impact of the geostrategic competition between China and India on South Asian regionalism. China’s economic influence varies and the evidence from Sri Lanka and Pakistan suggests that Beijing fully controls the deep seaports that it has built through BRI. While Beijing has engaged with a variety of political actors in the selected countries, it has not tried to influence domestic politics.","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"17 1","pages":"271 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43948757","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 regional great game in the Indian Ocean and India’s evolving maritime strategy","authors":"Sankalp Gurjar","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2021.2003037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2021.2003037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"17 1","pages":"346 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42439164","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":"Transformation of Japan–India security relations: from imperial–colonial era to free and open Indo-Pacific","authors":"Tunchinmang Langel","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2021.2001987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2021.2001987","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The ‘Indo-Pacific’ framework constructed upon the emerging shift in geopolitics from the Atlantic-Pacific to the Pacific-Indian Ocean region has underlined the increasing significance of maritime space as a theatre for geopolitical competition. Japan and India, which were historically on opposite spectrums, have now evolved into regional partners to increase their strategic influence and pursue in earnest the Indo-Pacific approach towards shaping the regional and maritime dynamics. This paper delves into the fundamental transformations in Japan-India relations; beginning specifically with imperial Japan’s fostering of bonds with the revolutionary nationalist campaigns in colonial India during the Second World War. The paper goes on to analyze the pre, post-War and post-Cold War evolution of ties between Japan and India, along with the transformation in priorities of both countries, converging on the diverse contours of maritime security cooperation in alignment with the shifting undercurrents of the 21st century geopolitics.","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"17 1","pages":"323 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47297544","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":"Addressing knowledge gaps in Indian Ocean studies","authors":"S. Chaturvedi","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2021.2025684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2021.2025684","url":null,"abstract":"China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) –a strategy dictated and driven by a complex mix of global ambitions and domestic compulsions– continues to invite the critical attention of both scholars and practitioners in different parts of the globe, including South Asia (Doshi, 2021; Mulmi, 2021; Wolf, 2020). The Journal of the Indian Ocean Region (JIOR) has published empirically rich and theoretically robust contributions over the years, that provide fresh insights on the intriguing intersections of ‘maritime connectivity’, and steadily unfolding geopolitical, geoeconomic and geostrategic trends in the Indian Ocean region and beyond. We are pleased to note that our special issue of the JIOR published earlier this year (volume 17, issue 1, 2021) on India China rivalry and its implications for small and medium-sized states in the Indian Ocean region, including South Asia, edited by Amit Ranjan and Alan Bloomfield (2021), has been well received by our readers and the wider academic community. In the current edition of the JIOR, the theme of geostrategic competition between China and India is revisited from another important perspective adding to our multifaceted examination of this crucial subject. In the article by Ahmed and Sheikh, the authors focus on the intersection of domestic and geopolitical factors, critically examining the multifaceted and multiscalar implications of BRI for ‘regional stability’ in South Asia; a relatively neglected theme in bourgeoning literature on various – often competing – connectivity narratives contesting for greater visibility and salience. The authors forcefully argue that South Asian regionalism is negatively impacted by the geostrategic competition between the two neighboring Asian powers, as China aggressively seeks to tilt the regional balance of power in its favor by facilitating the creation of new geopolitical options for its new ‘partners’, and thereby lessen their dependence on India. Citing China’s full control of the deep seaports (e.g. Hambantota in Sri Lanka and Gwadar in Pakistan) as one of the examples, the authors show how geoeconomics (i.e. investments under BRI) is being deployed as a tool of geopolitics. In their assessment, Beijing’s growing engagement with a variety of political actors in the selected countries, has not aimed at influencing domestic politics yet. This contribution is yet another excellent example of how empirically detailed and theoretically informed case studies can provide valuable insights on India–China competition and its wide-ranging implications for the people and politics of the subcontinent. Parallel to –and often entangled with– the major power struggles that feed into, and in return are fed by, mutualmistrust and deeply entrenched fear of zero-sum outcomes, are the hope generating narratives of new imaginations of ecologically sustainable and commonly secured futures for all in the Indian Ocean region –and the wider Indo-Pacific– through a peaceful, cooperative, rule abid","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"17 1","pages":"267 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45553021","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":"Malaysia A Maritime Nation","authors":"V. Forbes","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2021.2003036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2021.2003036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"17 1","pages":"342 - 344"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42234470","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":"Gambling with humanity at sea: states' legislative and policy responses to irregular migration in the Indian Ocean","authors":"Mohammad Rubaiyat Rahman","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2021.2001984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2021.2001984","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT It cannot be overstated that in recent times the gravity and complexity of irregular maritime migration have triggered concerns and debates in the academic domains of International Relations and International Law. The article examines how states' compliance with, and enforcement of,international law and legal norms would tackle the challenges of irregular migration in the Indian Ocean region. The legislative and policy challenges regarding irregular migration can be analyzed under two segments. First, there is a lack of comprehensive discussion about the sending and the receiving states' commitments (regarding irregular migrants) to international law and legal norms. Secondly, deficit of comparative analysis to show how the littoral states comply with international law norms on migration and refugee influx. Such analysis from multiple perspectives would be helpful to get insights and make policy recommendations about how effectively international law norms could be enforced through national legislation and policy framework.","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"17 1","pages":"306 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49658096","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":"Dust and smoke: air pollution and colonial urbanism, India, c. 1860–c. 1940","authors":"Hema Vaishnavi Ale","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2021.1966890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2021.1966890","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"17 1","pages":"344 - 346"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46422609","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":"Indus basin uninterrupted: A history of territory and politics from Alexander to Nehru","authors":"Medha Bisht","doi":"10.1080/19480881.2021.1966944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2021.1966944","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53974,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Ocean Region","volume":"17 1","pages":"261 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45565627","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}