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IONS Seminar 2014 - Session 1 - Overview of Indian Ocean Security Architecture
1. INDIAN OCEAN NAVAL SYMPOSIUM
26-27 March 2014
Professor Michael L’Estrange
Overview of Indian Ocean Security
Architecture
2. Themes
• rising importance
• shortcomings of existing arrangements
• Indo-Pacific influence
• limits of multilateralism
3. Indian Ocean Security Outlook
• dimensions of growing importance
• legacies from the past
• contemporary and future challenges
• neither complacency nor alarmism
4. Contours of Indian Ocean Security Architecture
• No one size fits all
− regional realties
: major powers
: alliance relationships and strategic
partnerships
6. Future Indian Ocean Security Architecture
• How to fill existing and emerging gaps
• Priorities
− Indo-Pacific intersections and major
powers dialogue
− evolution of bilateral alliance and
security partnerships