The Indian Ocean as a New Political and Security Region

lt;b>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)

“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)