The Indo-Pacific Theatre Strategic Visions And Frameworks | Asian Studies

This book studies the internal framework of the Indo-Pacific region and examines the strategic issues faced by the countries that belong to it. Over the years the Indo-Pacific region has become a prime driver of global economic growth and has generated considerable interest from countries both within and without. The region is now witnessing an intensified great power competition for greater geostrategic space thus shaping the 21st-century world order. The volume focuses on the emerging strategies of the main actors involved in this competition. It discusses various key issues such as the purpose of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue and its post-pandemic agenda the conceptualisation of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) amid an intensifying Sino-US great power competition the strategies of ASEAN and South Korea China’s activities in the Indo-Pacific economic architecture and supply chain disruption in the region as well as the geopolitical strategy of the European Union for the Indo-Pacific. A crucial study of the Indo-Pacific region in the post-COVID-19 world the book gives fresh insights into the areas of convergence and divergence in the strategic visions of the many regional actors. It will be of great interest to policymakers as well as students and academics in the fields of political science international relations foreign policy geopolitics security studies strategic studies as well as area studies namely East and Southeast Asian studies European Union studies American studies and Australian studies. |The Indo-Pacific Theatre Strategic Visions and Frameworks | Asian Studies