![]() ![]() Finally, although the Indo-Pacific presents new opportunities to India’s great power ambitions, India’s priorities and significant investments will remain in the Indian Ocean. Due to the geographic proximity of the island states-both Maldives and Sri Lanka, and to a greater extent Mauritius and Seychelles-to India, their foreign policy choices will have a direct impact on New Delhi’s security environment. While collaborations with bigger powers such as Australia, France, Japan, and the United States have provided a greater platform for New Delhi to expand its diplomatic footprint, its relationship with island nations will shape India’s role in the Indo-Pacific. Second, it places partnerships at the core of India’s Indo-Pacific interests. First, it underlines the Indo-Pacific as an opportunity to expand its footprint across the region while facing significant capacity and capital constraints. The paper identifies three specific elements of India’s Indo-Pacific approach. Her primary research focuses on maritime security in the Indo-Pacific and the role of islands in shaping great power competition. Baruah is a fellow with the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where she directs the Indian Ocean Initiative. As Canberra, Paris, Tokyo, and Washington, DC continue to support and promote a stronger Indian role in the Indo-Pacific, this paper highlights New Delhi’s perceptions, challenges, and opportunities in the region.ĭarshana M. The Indo-Pacific therefore is a new domain in India’s foreign policy engagements, representing a shift in New Delhi’s strategic environment-expanding its threats solely from its continental borders to its maritime space. However, despite New Delhi’s presence in the Indian Ocean, maritime security has actually remained outside of India’s strategic interests, concerns, and thinking, due to its continental threats. India’s role in the Indo-Pacific is considered crucial by countries such as Australia, Japan, and the United States. The emergence of the Indo-Pacific as a new geographic space-bringing together the Indian and the Pacific Oceans-represents the new strategic reality of the twenty-first century. ![]() 1 The rise of China across the Indian and Pacific Oceans challenges the security umbrella established at the end of Second World War and strengthened after the end of the Cold War. As India and Australia recently recognized, “many of the future challenges are likely to occur in, and emanate from, the maritime domain” underlining the reemergence of the maritime space as the theater for geopolitical competition. The great power competition today is no different. Throughout history, the maritime domain has been a crucial space in establishing new and emerging powers shaping regional dynamics and the larger security architecture. ![]()
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