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Podcast: Middle East Dossier
Episode: [Book Talk] The Indian Ocean as a New Political and Security Region
Description: The new book from Frédéric Grare and Jean-Loup Samaan analyses the emergence of the Indian Ocean as a strategic space of central importance. For a long time, the Indian Ocean was a “neglected ocean”, almost marginal compared to the global centres in the East and West. However, by the end of the 2000s, China’s global growth triggered new interest in the region. Although this was primarily driven by considerations over great power competition, namely between the US, China, and India, the authors argue in their book that the Indian Ocean is not merely a battleground for this str...