Indian Ocean as a New Political and Security Region

Frederic Grare is Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Affairs (ECFR) and a non-resident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.Jean-Loup Samaan is Senior Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore and Associate Researcher with the French Institute of International Relations.

• 1. The advent of China’s Indian Ocean strategy.- 2. Between East and West, India’s revived engagements.- 3. The US, the reluctant offshore balancer of the Indian Ocean rivalries.- 4. The United Kingdom and France: a European struggle for regional influence.- 5. The Gulf Arab Monarchies: from gateways to strategic players in the Indian Ocean?.- 6. Australia and the ASEAN member states: from interest to commitment?.- 7. Indian Ocean Africa, from mere stakeholder to future power broker?.- 8. Reinforcing an Indian Ocean security architecture.

“Grare and Samaan provide a seminal contribution in mapping emerging security and strategic realities within the Indian Ocean region, showing it as a political construct. This will hopefully inform both scholars and policy-makers dealing with the region and with maritime geopolitics.” (Sayantan Haldar, International Affairs, Vol. 98 (3), 2022)