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The Indo-Pacific region presents a dichotomy in contemporary international relations. While it represents a key thoroughfare for international commercial activity and a driver of global economic growth, it faces potentially destabilising traditional and non-traditional security threats. A rules-based international order under stress further exacerbates these challenges.
Developments driven in part by the nature of China’s rise and shifts in US foreign policy have generated a space for middle and small powers as growing actors in this region, enabling new forms of partnerships including narrow and issue-focused mini-laterals. Debates around norms and standards, particularly around infrastructure projects and new technologies, are central to discussions around the future landscape of geopolitics and are in many cases led by countries in the Indo-Pacific. Ensuring freedom of navigation and overflight, as well as wider maritime security, has implications for the sustainable development of economies in the region and the international laws upon which they rely. These questions are intertwined with debates around how to navigate the increasing great power competition between China and the US.
The Navigating the Indo-Pacific Programme provides analysis to help understand the complex local dynamics that define this region, as well as its interplay with wider geopolitical trends.
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Veerle Nouwens Aaditya Dave Raffaello Pantucci Andrew Cainey |
Bates Gill Walter C Ladwig III Jurgen Haacke . |
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Hosted by Veele Nouwens, this podcast provides an essential a platform to discuss the key defence and security questions of the world’s most dynamic region: the Indo-Pacific. |
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Conceptualising the Indo-Pacific
Multimedia, 28 September 2020
In this first episode, Veerle is joined by Dr. Neil Melvin, Director of RUSI’s International Security Studies department and Aaditya Dave, Research Analyst in the Navigating the Indo-Pacific Programme of the ISS department. Together, they explore the Indo-Pacific concept and region, why the concept of the Indo-Pacific is catching on, what some of the key defence and security questions in the...
Tags: Bridging the Oceans Podcast Series, China, Navigating the Indo-Pacific, Japan, India, International Security Studies, Maritime Forces, Pacific, Central and South Asia
Welcome to Bridging the Oceans
Multimedia, 28 September 2020
In this trailer, we explore some of the key questions we’ll be asking in the flagship podcast of the Navigating the Indo-Pacific programme of RUSI’s International Security Studies department.
Tags: Bridging the Oceans Podcast Series, China, Navigating the Indo-Pacific, Japan, India, International Security Studies, Maritime Forces, Pacific, Central and South Asia
Tackling Non-traditional Maritime Security Threats in the Indo-Pacific
Events, 16 October 2020
This webinar will discuss how key non-traditional maritime security challenges shape the security and strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific.
Tags: Navigating the Indo-Pacific, International Security Studies
Conceptualising the Indo-Pacific
Multimedia, 28 September 2020In this first episode, Veerle is joined by Dr. Neil Melvin, Director of RUSI’s International Security Studies department and Aaditya Dave, Research Analyst in the Navigating the Indo-Pacific...
Tags: Bridging the Oceans Podcast Series, China, Navigating the Indo-Pacific, Japan, India, International Security Studies, Maritime Forces, Pacific, Central and South Asia
Welcome to Bridging the Oceans
Multimedia, 28 September 2020In this trailer, we explore some of the key questions we’ll be asking in the flagship podcast of the Navigating the Indo-Pacific programme of RUSI’s International Security Studies department.
Tags: Bridging the Oceans Podcast Series, China, Navigating the Indo-Pacific, Japan, India, International Security Studies, Maritime Forces, Pacific, Central and South Asia
Tackling Non-traditional Maritime Security Threats in the Indo-Pacific
Events, 16 October 2020This webinar will discuss how key non-traditional maritime security challenges shape the security and strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific.
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