Routledge Revivals
The Security of Sea Lanes of Communication in the Indian Ocean Region
First published in 2007, this book focuses on the security of sea lanes of communication. It was a joint publication between the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA) and the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG) and is an important book for three particular reasons. First, it takes a step forward in identifying key policy themes that can be applied to interstate cooperation around the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). Second, the particular theme discussed is not only central to the economic well-being of Indian Ocean countries, but also to many of the worlds most important trading states, and finally the various discussions within the book raise a host of issues to which regional as well as non-regional policy-makers should give serious consideration.
Dennis Rumley is Professor of Indian Ocean Studies and Distinguished Research Fellow at Curtin University, Australia. He was formerly Australias focal point to the Indian Ocean Rim Academic Group (IORAG) and Vice-Chair from November 2011 to November 2013.
An editorial board member of various international journals, he has also published 11 books and more than 130 papers on political geography and international relations, electoral geography, local government, federalism, Australias regional relations, geopolitics, India-Australia relations and the Indian Ocean Region. He is currently Chairperson of the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG) and is Foundation Chief Editor of its flagship journal, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region .
Rumley edited a major study on Indian Ocean Security which was launched in Canberra by the Australian Deputy Foreign Minister in March 2013 - The Indian Ocean Region: Security, Stability and Sustainability in the 21st Century . He has also recently edited The Political Economy of Indian Ocean Maritime Africa , co-edited Indian Ocean Regionalism , with Timothy Doyle, and republished his co-edited book with Julian Minghi, The Geography of Border Landscapes , in a new Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography series.
Dr. Sanjay Chaturvedi is Professor of Political Science at the Centre for the Study of Geopolitics, Panjab University, India. He was awarded the Nehru Centenary British Fellowship, followed by the Leverhulme Trust Research Grant, to pursue his post-doctoral research at University of Cambridge, England. He was also a Third Cohort Fellow of the India-China Institute at the New School, New York (2010-2012) and was the Co-Chair of the Research Committee on Political and Cultural Geography (RC 15) of International Political Science Association (IPSA) from 2006 to 2012.
Founding Vice-Chairman of the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG Inc.), Chaturvedi is the Co-Editor of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region and the Regional Editor of The Polar Journal . He also serves on the Advisory Board of Geopolitics and Journal of Borderlands Studies .
Chaturvedi has served on the Indian delegations to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings (ATCMs) since 2007 and Track II Trilateral Dialogue on the Indian Ocean (TDIO) among India, Australia and Indonesia. His recent co-authored books include Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change , with Timothy Doyle, Climate Change and the Bay of Bengal: Emerging Geographies of Hope and Fear , with Vijay Sakhuja.
Mat Taib is a retired Captain turned security analyst after 28 years of service in the Royal Malaysian Navy. He has penned dozens of documents, research reports and articles and keynote addresses for VIPs including the Prime Minister. He also commanded and assumed the coveted position of Director of Naval Strategic Plan.
He is a Navigation Specialist. Upon being awarded a distinguished graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College, he won a scholarship to study at the National University and later Lancaster University, UK, earning him an MA in Science and Technology.
His second career at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia involved substantive research on the security of Sea Lanes, particularly the Straits of Malacca, Indian Ocean and South China Sea. Some of these works have been published.
Taibs expertise was recognized through assignments such as being the technical adviser to the National Security Council and Head of Malaysian-Indonesia (MALINDO-INCSEA) delegation.
He is currently a part-time independent consultant.
Arc Acknowledgement
The editors would like to acknowledge the funding of the Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP120101166: Building an Indian Ocean Region for their generous assistance in the conduct and completion of this research, writing and publication 2012-2015.
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Please note, the original 'List of Contributors' is incomplete and several contributors are absent. Those absent are Noor Apandi Osni, Dennis Rumley, Vijay Sakhuja, Swaran Singh, Mat Taib Yasin, Mokhzani Zubir.
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