IONS and the Indian Ocean: reviving a listless initiative

IONS and the Indian Ocean: reviving a listless initiative

Despite an enthusiastic start in 2008, the only pan Indian Ocean Region maritime security initiative, IONS, had fallen into strategic inertia, threatened by creeping irrelevance. Will the growing interest of China and other external powers along with a change of Chairmanship revive this forum?

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Main Author: P. K. Ghosh
Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Format: Commentary
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
DRNTU::Social sciences::Military and naval science::Strategy::Asia
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102966
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19964
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Despite an enthusiastic start in 2008, the only pan Indian Ocean Region maritime security initiative, IONS, had fallen into strategic inertia, threatened by creeping irrelevance. Will the growing interest of China and other external powers along with a change of Chairmanship revive this forum?

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