
INDIA AND CHINA - TIME TO EVOLVE MARITIME CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES
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…

CO-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…

VISAKHAPATNAM 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)…

INTERNATIONAL 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…

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…

COOPERATING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OCEANS
The United Nations Sustainable Development Summit held on 25 September 2015 formally adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 targets. The agreement by all 193 member countries of the UN …

HISTORICAL AND TAXONOMICAL CLAIMS OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA
During his address at the Defense Conference in London on 14 September 2015, Vice Admiral Yuan Yubai, the Commander of the PLA Navy‟s North Sea Fleet, stated that “the South China Sea, as the name indicates, is a sea area that belongs to…

BLUE ECONOMY: HARMONIZING IORA DECLARATION AND UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL
In September 2015, two significant announcements relating to ocean economy were made. The Indian Ocean Rim Associations (IORA) hosted the first IORA Ministerial Blue Economy Conference titled “Enhancing Blue Economy…

THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION: IN PURSUIT OF BLUE ECONOMY
The Indian Ocean has immense potential in providing sustainable livelihood and economic development to its littoral countries. Exploring marine resources for economic development while significantly reducing environmental …

WORLD OCEANS DAY
World Ocean Day (WOD), celebrated on 08 June every year, brings an opportunity to raise global awareness of the impacts of human actions on the ocean, and to mobilize support for sustainable global ocean management. It was first proposed…

CHINA CHALLENGES THE UNIPOLAR WORLD ORDER: AN ASSESSMENT OF CHINA’S DEFENCE WHITE PAPER 2014
China has been issuing Defence White Papers biennially since 1998. The ninth White Paper of 2014 titled ‘China's Military Strategy’ was released recently in May 2015. This essay seeks to analyse the salient aspects…

CAN ASEAN PREVENT THE INEVITABLE IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA?
The 26th ASEAN Summit concluded in Kuala Lumpur on 27 April 2015 with the ministers once again ‘sharing concerns’ over the outstanding maritime territorial disputes in the …