Reinvigorating IOR-ARC
Vijay Sakhuja
- 1st ed.
- New Delhi Pentagon Press 2012
- xxx, 204 p. : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
The Extended Indian Ocean space from the shores of Africa to Australasia, arguably, holds the potential to define the contours of emerging global-geo strategic and economic architecture, it is rich in energy and other resources, includes flashpoints involving extra regional powers, is host to a few fastest growing economies and emerging power centres and some of the crucial sea lanes pass through this space. At the same time, it is increasingly an area of rivalries, trans-national crimes, non-traditional threats to security, tensions and disputes, highlighting the need for strategic and economic cooperation, particularly amongst the littoral and hinterland countries. The somewhat slow to take off Indian Ocean Rim Cooperation (IOR-ARC) initiative could become one small effort to initiate such cooperation.