Rethinking maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region

Cordner, Lee

doi:10.1080/19480881.2010.489671

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“…The Indian Ocean Rim is also characterised by a number of security issues (Bouchard & Crumplin, 2010;Cordner, 2010;Rao, 2010). Most of the challenges like piracy, proliferation of small arms, drug and human trafficking emanate from nonstate actors (Sakhuja, 2001).…”

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The Indian Ocean Rim – Association for Regional Co-operation (IOR–ARC): the futile quest for regionalism?

Wagner

2013

Journal of the Indian Ocean Region

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The Indian Ocean has received new attention in recent years because of its economic and strategic importance. The region is seen as a theatre for great power rivalries mainly between the United States, China, and India. In contrast to this, the Indian Ocean Rim Á Association for Regional Co-operation (IORÁARC) has hardly attained any political importance more than 15 years after its inauguration. The economic and political divergences among its 20 members and the competition with (sub-)regional organisations have limited its impact. The futile quest for regionalism should be replaced by a new understanding of the IORÁ ARC as an international or inter-regional organisation that deals with different maritime issues. This would pave the way to promote closer cooperation between the different regional organisations and to enter into meaningful collaboration with the international community in order to fight common threats.

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The Indian Ocean Rim – Association for Regional Co-operation (IOR–ARC): the futile quest for regionalism?

Wagner

2013

Journal of the Indian Ocean Region

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“…In the maritime arena, the Indian Ocean has been described and argued as an imperative centre stage for energy geopolitics, a place that cannot be overlooked in the world geopolitics and global strategy (Berlin 2002;Cordner 2010;Kaplan 2009;Bouchard and Crumplin 2010). This is a largely valid statement considering how many countries in the world have their oil imports transported via this oceanic space.…”

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ASEAN and interconnecting regional spheres: lessons for the Indian Ocean Region

Lin

Grundy‐Warr

2012

Journal of the Indian Ocean Region

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In an era of shifting global geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic power, ASEAN's resilience as a regional grouping and its relative success in keeping internal conflicts at bay through various forms of quiet diplomacy and adherence to certain norms and binding principles mean that it may become a force helping to foster peaceful and stronger regional linkages within the eastern frontiers of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). In this article we focus on ASEAN's growing roles and relations within three key 'spheres' of adjoining regional-extra-regional reach, which we identify as the mostly landward Greater Mekong Sphere (GMS), the South China Sea Sphere and the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea Sphere. The Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea straddle between the Indian Ocean Region and ASEAN, so this offers a joint issue of cooperation and proximate regionalism. As for the GMS and South China Sea, the common Chinese factor holds important geo-economic and geopolitical references that IOR could incorporate into its foreign policy portfolio. Despite ASEAN's at times belowpar performances and contradictions in terms of regional and internal security, its direct and adjacent interconnectedness with the IOR suggests that it is perhaps one of the best institutions to learn from in terms of strengthening the IOR's future regionalism aspirations. ASEAN and Interconnecting Regional Spheres: Lessons for Indian Ocean Region AbstractIn an era of shifting global geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic power, ASEAN's resilience as a regional grouping and its relative success in keeping internal conflicts at bay through various forms of quiet diplomacy and adherence to certain norms and binding principles, mean that ASEAN may become a force helping to foster peaceful and stronger regional linkage within the eastern frontiers of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). In this paper we focus on ASEAN's growing roles and relations within three key 'Spheres' of adjoining regional-extra-regional reach, in which we identified these as the mostly landward Greater Mekong Sphere, the South China Sea Sphere, and the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sphere. The Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea straddles between the Indian Ocean Region and ASEAN, so this offers a joint issue of cooperation and proximate regionalism. As for the GMS and South China Sea, the common Chinese factor holds important geo-economic and geopolitical references that IOR could incorporate in its foreign policy portfolio. Despite ASEAN's below par performances and contradictions in terms of regional and internal security at times, it's direct and adjacent interconnectedness with the IOR suggests it is perhaps one of the best institutions to learn from in strengthening IOR's future regionalism aspirations.

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“…International collaboration is also important in sociopolitically complex regions where conflicts oc cur on borders and management resources are scarce, such as the WIO (Cordner 2010, Bueger 2013, Kark et al 2015. Collaboration, when successful, has been shown to substantially reduce the cost and area required for managing terrestrial and marine environments (Kark et al 2009, Mazor et al 2013.…”

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Incorporating feasibility and collaboration into large-scale planning for regional recovery of coral reef fisheries

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Maina²,

Kark³

et al. 2018

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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Broad-scale overharvesting of fish is one of the major drivers of marine biodiversity loss and poverty, particularly in countries with high dependence on coral reefs. Given the heterogeneity of fishing effort and management success, and the scarcity of management resources, it is necessary to identify broad-scale locations for promoting successful fisheries management and conservation. Here, we assessed how fisheries management and conservation priorities in the Western Indian Ocean would change if the objectives were to (1) minimize lost fishing opportunity, (2) minimize the time for fish biomass to recover, (3) avoid locations of low management feasibility based on historical management outcomes, and (4) incorporate international collaboration to optimize the rate for achieving goals. When prioritizing for rapid recovery of fish biomass rather than minimizing lost fishing opportunity, we found that the area of priority management zones changed by over 60% in some countries. When locations of low management feasibility were avoided, the recovery time of fish biomass across the region increased 4-fold. International collaborations prioritized management zones in remote, high biomass, and low fishing pressure reefs and reduced the recovery time of fish 5-fold compared to non-collaboration scenarios. Thus, many of these conservation objectives favored wealthy and sparsely populated over poorer and natural resource dependent countries. Consequently, this study shows how prioritization policies, incentives, decisions, and conflicts will produce highly variable outcomes and challenges for sustainability.

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Rethinking maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region

Cited by 34 publications

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The Indian Ocean Rim – Association for Regional Co-operation (IOR–ARC): the futile quest for regionalism?

The Indian Ocean Rim – Association for Regional Co-operation (IOR–ARC): the futile quest for regionalism?

ASEAN and interconnecting regional spheres: lessons for the Indian Ocean Region

Incorporating feasibility and collaboration into large-scale planning for regional recovery of coral reef fisheries

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