Geoeconomics and Geosecurities in the
Indian Ocean Region
There are important changes in regional and global demographics ahead of us. A profound rise in the number of citizens in the Indian Ocean Region in the next 50 years will have significant impacts on the state, on the nature and operation of markets and the neo-liberal framework they operate in, and raise new challenges for regional security. This book considers the insufficient dialogue between ever-increasing and closer connections between geoeconomics and geosecurities in the Indian Ocean Region, and highlights some of the challenges. This book takes a broader understanding of security than what is usually meant in more traditional security frameworks in politics and international relations. Economic and politics are integrally and obviously related. This book considers regional themes such as discourses around strategic competition; models of regional cooperative security; Indian Ocean Region domestic economies/contexts and the military industrial complex; and regional models of identity and cultural belonging. Regions and regionalisms are increasingly being used to challenge power and the existence of any uniform model of macro-politics and macro-economics (whether it be neo-liberalism or otherwise). Most importantly, these discussions of region enable us to celebrate the similarities that we share as neighbours (in a real geographical sense) and to comprehend and respect these differences in these rich regional communities of markets, cultures, and securities. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region.
Timothy Doyle is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He is also an Emeritus Chair of Politics and International Relations at Keele University, UK, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI), Curtin University, Western Australia. He served as Chair of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Academic Group from 201415, based in Ebene, Mauritius. He has been Chief Editor of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region since 2012.
Geoeconomics and Geosecurities
in the Indian Ocean Region
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Timothy Doyle
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Contents
Timothy Doyle
David Brewster
Erin Zimmerman
Aditi Malhotra and Rammohan Viswesh
Thean Potgieter
Francois Vre
Iqbal S. Akhtar
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 10, issue 2 (December 2014). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Timothy Doyle
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 10, issue 2 (December 2014) pp. 129132
David Brewster
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 10, issue 2 (December 2014) pp. 133149
Erin Zimmerman
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 10, issue 2 (December 2014) pp. 150165
Aditi Malhotra and Rammohan Viswesh
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 10, issue 2 (December 2014) pp. 166182
Thean Potgieter
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 10, issue 2 (December 2014) pp. 183202
Francois Vre
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 10, issue 2 (December 2014) pp. 203218
Iqbal S. Akhtar
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 10, issue 2 (December 2014) pp. 219236
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Iqbal S. Akhtar is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies and Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University, Miami, USA. He is the author of The Khj of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity (2015).
David Brewster is a Visiting Fellow in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, Australia. He is one of Australias leading academic experts on strategy and security in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region.
Timothy Doyle is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He is also an Emeritus Chair of Politics and International Relations at Keele University, UK, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI), Curtin University, Western Australia.
Aditi Malhotra is a PhD candidate at the University of Muenster, Germany. She was previously a Senior Research Fellow in the International Strategic and Security Studies Programme (ISSSP), National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India.
Thean Potgieter is a Professor and the Chief Director of Research and Innovation at PALAMA, the Secretary General of the South African Military History Commission, and the Chair and non-executive Director of West Coast Aquaculture.
Rammohan Viswesh is a researcher in the International Strategic and Security Studies Programme (ISSSP), National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India.
Francois Vre is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. His research focuses on maritime security in Africa.
Erin Zimmerman is an Honorary Fellow at the University of WisconsinMadison, USA. Her current research looks at security in South East Asia.
In a recent edition of the JIOR, I wrote of the rise of Africa from an Indian Oceanic perspective. By the middle years of the twenty-first century, it will be Africa competing with China and India in terms of absolute numbers of population on the planet. The engines of the most recent incarnation of the global industrial revolution will be scattered into numerous nodes across the region, but African labour and resources will be at the nexus of most production and trade processes.