Indo-Pacific Strategies: Navigating Geopolitics at the Dawn of a New Age

The book "Indo-Pacific Strategies" examines the growing prominence of the Indo-Pacific regions as major powers expand their influence. It offers insights into the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, analyses COVID-19-related geopolitical trends, and explores the strategies of Indo-Pacific states against great power competition. The book also discusses the roles of Eurasia, small island states, the Middle East, and Africa in the region and investigates the strategic and tactical operationalization of the Indo-Pacific. It is a valuable resource for scholars, policymakers, students, and strategists in international politics and Area Studies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Indo-Pacific regions growing prominence as the worlds major powers gravitate towards this space to expand their influence is the central theme of this comprehensive book. With dynamic shifts taking place in the globes most strategically volatile region, Indo-Pacific Strategies aims to clarify the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, expounded both as a strategic concept and nascent region, thus contributing to the burgeoning policy and academic debate. The book offers indispensable insights and appropriate remedies to maintain the rules-based international order as threatened by Chinas increasingly assertive and bellicose posturing. It offers up-to-date analyses of Covid-19-related geopolitical trends, the strategies of various Indo-Pacific states against the backdrop of great power competition, the increasingly confrontational stance of Indo-Pacific states against China, and the 2020 US election results.

This unique book presents deep insights into the roles of Eurasia, small island states, the Middle East and Africa, in addition to Australia, India, Japan, and the US, thereby providing much-needed comparative studies. It also closely investigates the strategic and tactical operationalization of the Indo-Pacific, making it an essential read for scholars, policymakers, students, and strategists in the field of international politics and Area Studies.

Excerpt from the foreword by ABE Shinzō, (former) Prime Minister of Japan:

I think this book is the timeliest attempt to bring together the wisdom of eleven people to present a multifaceted view of the FOIP [Free and Open Indo-Pacific]. As a reader, I would like to express my gratitude to the editors and contributors for their valuable intellectual contributions.

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Weight: 416g
Dimension: 155 x 233 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032074436