Articles

• Maritime Developments in the South Western Indian Ocean and the Potential for India’s Engagement with the Region

  Yogesh V. Athawale

• A Neo-Nixon Doctrine for the Indian Ocean: Helping States Help Themselves

  Walter C. Ladwig III

• Charting a Maritime Security Cooperation Mechanism in the Indian Ocean: Sharing Responsibilities among Littoral States and User States

  Nong Hong

• India’s Maritime Core Interests

  R. S. Vasan

• The Creation of Indian Integrated Commands: Organisational Learning and the Andaman and Nicobar Command

  Patrick C. Bratton

• China’s Post-1978 Maritime Relations with South Asia: Towards Greater Cooperation

  Sithara Fernando

• The Chinese Navy, Its Regional Power and Global Reach

  You Ji

• Chinese Views of India in the Indian Ocean: A Geopolitical Perspective

  Toshi Yoshihara

Commentaries

• Indian Ocean Naval Symposium: Uniting the Maritime Indian Ocean Region

  P. K. Ghosh

• Inside, Outside: India’s ‘Exterior Lines’ in the South China Sea

  James R. Holmes

• China Shakes Up the Maritime Balance in the Indian Ocean

  Harsh V. Pant

• A European Perspective on Maritime Security Challenges in the Indian Ocean Region

  Radu N. Botez

• India’s Critical Role in the Resilience of the Global Undersea Communications Cable Infrastructure

  Sarabjeet Singh Parmar

  Ronald J. Rapp

  Franz-Stefan Gady

  Karl Frederick Rauscher

Book Review

• Making the Law of the Sea – A Study in the Development of International Law by James Harrison

  B.M. Dimri

• Security in the Indian Ocean Region: Role of India by Rockin Th. Singh

  S. Kulshrestha

• Asian Maritime Power in the 21st Century: Strategic Transactions, China, India and Southeast Asia by Vijay Sakhuja

  W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar

• Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty First Century by James R. Holmes, Andrew Winner and Toshi Yoshihara

  Rikeesh Sharma