The Indian Ocean and US Grand Strategy: Ensuring Access and Promoting Security (South Asia in World Affairs) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1626161402 ISBN 13: 9781626161405

Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2015

Synopsis

The Indian Ocean, with its critical routes for global commerce, is a potentially volatile location for geopolitical strife. Even as the region's role in the international economy and as a highway to conflict zones increases, the US has failed to advance a coherent strategy for protecting its interests in the Indian Ocean or for managing complex diplomatic relationships across the region. The Indian Ocean and US Grand Strategy presents a range of viewpoints about whether and how the US should alter its diplomatic and military strategies for this region.

Contributors examine US interests in the Indian Ocean, assess the relative critical importance or imperiled nature of these interests, and propose solutions for American strategy ranging from minimal change to maximum engagement. The book concludes with a comparative assessment of these options and a discussion of their implications for US policymakers. This volume's perspectives and analysis of the Indian Ocean region will be valued by scholars and students of US foreign policy, South Asia, and security studies as well as by diplomats, military officers, and other practitioners.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Dombrowski is a professor in the Strategic Research Department at the US Naval War College.

Andrew C. Winner is a professor and chair of the Strategic Research Department and director of the Indian Ocean Regional Studies Group at the US Naval War College.

Review:

Some excellent studies have been published [on the Indian Ocean] and this is one of them. . . . [The book] provides a good cross section of current American thought on the subject.

--Ausmarine

About this edition

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1626161402
• ISBN 13: 9781626161405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Dombrowski Peter, Winner Andrew C.