ASIA-PACIFIC STRATEGIC DIALOGUE – WEBINAR SERIES

Abstract

The Indo-Pacific represents a historic crossroad for interchanging ideas, trade, culture, and people. Indo-Pacific has emerged in the contemporary world’s economy and politics, first as Asia-Pacific and, then through the revival of the Indian Ocean rimland states. This has shifted the world’s attention from the trans-Atlantic to the IndoPacific. Strategies by major powers have built new mechanisms for cooperation and competition. Thus, the Indo-Pacific has raised risks of further division and even confrontation along political, military, ideological, and economic lines.