Emerging Contours of Contemporary Asian Maritime Connectivity: Economic and Strategic Objectives

Vivek Mishra and Sayantan Haldar
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Vivek Mishra: Vivek Mishra is a Research Fellow in Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, and Deputy Director in Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies, Bhubaneswar.
Sayantan Haldar: Sayantan Haldar is finishing MA in Political Science from Presidency University, Kolkata.

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 2020, vol. 76, issue 3, 461-478

Abstract: This article intends to look at how contemporary and future Asian connectivity linkages are likely to impact Asian geopolitics and geo-strategy. While China has dominated the contemporary connectivity discourse with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), other players such as Australia, India, Japan and the USA are engaged in their own connectivity bids which often converge and intersect in the region. As a result, the countries involved in the Indo-Pacific cross-linkages are tacitly entering a game of one-upmanship. Influence through connectivity linkages has also shifted the discourse around balance of power for countries to balance of influence. It is in this context that initiatives such as the Mausam find centrality in the country’s changing outlook. This article attempts to look at Asian connectivity from a dual perspective of economic competition, on one hand, and strategic calculations, on the other hand. The scope of the article is limited to analysing China, India and Japan as leading Asian countries in the emerging connectivity competition, besides the USA as the most important external players in Asian connectivity geopolitics and geo-strategy.

Keywords: Asian connectivity; Indo-Pacific; belt and road initiative; project mausam; balance of influence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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