Image Credits: ThoughtCoSILK, COTTON AND CINNAMON: MARITIME RENAISSANCE OF THE INDIAN OCEAN
Introduction
The Indian Ocean region covers an area of 73,556,000 square miles and links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Being the third largest ocean in the world, it also encompasses many regional seas: the Arabian Sea, the Andaman Sea,…
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Fleet Review – An Enabler for Confidence Building
In February 2001, the Indian Navy had organized the International Fleet Review (IFR) at Mumbai. Given the theme ‘Bridges of Friendship’, the event was meant to commemorate the completion…
Image Credits: Middle East InstituteCO-OPERATION IN THE BAY OF BENGAL TO ADDRESS CLIMATE-INDUCED MIGRATION
Global discourse on climate change has come a long way: from its credibility being hotly contested to becoming a priority in international cooperation for states, primarily under the umbrella of United Nations Framework Convention for Climate…
Image Credits: The PrintVISAKHAPATNAM AND THE INDIAN NAVY: AN ENDURING RELATIONSHIP
The city of Visakhapatnam on India’s east coast in the state of Andhra Pradesh stands on the threshold of history. Its name will be etched forever in golden letters in world maritime history when it hosts the International Fleet Review (IFR)…
Image Credits: The Better IndiaINTERNATIONAL FLEET REVIEWS: SHOWCASING INDIA’S NAVAL ORIENTATION
“From the Arctic to the Antarctic and from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, the sea is one. Because the sea poses a common challenge, those who traversed it depended on each other and developed a special bond. Seafarers of the world, represented…
Image Credits: Institute for New Economic Thinking COMMON PUBLIC GOOD AT SEA: EVOLVING ARCHITECTURE IN THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION
The concept of ‘Common Public Good(s) at Sea’ has lately gained much traction in the context of maritime safety and security in the Afro-Asian swath of the Indo-Pacific region.i As the centre-of-gravity of world’s economic power shifts…
