Tag: Indian Ocean

• Looking Beyond China: Strengthening Bilateral Relationships in the Quad

  Quad 2.0 has proceeded more determinedly even if slowly but the Covid-19 pandemic now offers an opportunity to step up the pace. The issue now is of ensuring that Chinese pressure does not derail its development yet again.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  9 June 2020

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Australia, Indian foreign policy, Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Indian Ocean, Japan, MALABAR naval exercises, Quadrilateral Initiative, regional security, Sino-Indian relations, United States

• Let the Quad Die: Towards Greater Indian Leadership in the Indo-Pacific

  There is a case to be made for an India-led initiative in the Indo-Pacific that displays greater commitment to upholding international law than to ‘inclusivity’ as well as willingness to take on a wider ambit of regional responsibilities in the security and political domains

  Jabin T. Jacob

  24 July 2019

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Australia, Chinese foreign policy, containment, Indian foreign policy, Indian Ocean, Indo-Pacific, Indonesia, international law, Japan, maritime security, Quadrilateral Initiative, Singapore, South Korea, UNCLOS, United States, Vietnam

• India’s Response to China’s ‘one belt, one road’ Initiative

  This article looks at India’s response to China’s OBOR and the weaknesses of that response through two specific cases of Pakistan and the Indian Ocean.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  25 March 2016

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), Chinese foreign policy, economic relations, Indian foreign policy, Indian Ocean, infrastructure development, Maldives, Maritime Silk Road, Pakistan, Sino-Indian relations