Asian Maritime Power in the 21st Century : Strategies Transactions China, India and Southeast Asia

About the Book :

Maritime power has been a key defining parameter of economic vitality and geostrategic power of nations. The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed the rise of China and India as confident economic powers pivoting on high growth rates, exponential expansion of science, technology and industrial growth. Sequel to their steadily growing economic clout has been the emphatic resurgence of their maritime power evident in maritime shipping, port development and the concomitant expansion of naval power. Dr. Vijay Sakhuja, a former Indian Navy officer, in this pioneering study has splendidly elucidated and examined the resurgence of Asian naval power and its political-diplomatic, economic-commercial, science-technological-industrial, grand-strategic and the operational-doctrinal dimensions. Using a neorealist framework, the author provides robust and insightful analysis of how China and India as great powers, using their maritime military capabilities, would evolve and act in global affairs. Professor Sanjay Chadurvedi Centre for the Study of Geopolitics Punjab University, Chandigarh, India

About Author :

Dr. Vijay Sakhuja is Director (Research), Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi. He is the author of ?Asian Maritime Power in the Twenty-first Century: Strategic Transactions China, India and southeast Asia (2011) and ?Confidence Building from the Sea: An Indian Initiative? (2000), editor of India Vietnam Strategic Partnership: Exploring Vistas for Expanded Cooperation (2011), and co-editor of Nagapatinam to Swarndweepa: Reflections on Chola Naval Expedition to Southeast Asia (2010) and Marine Biodiversity & Fisheries Exploitation In The Indian Ocean: Threats And Opportunities (2009). Dr. Vijay Sakhuja is also Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore since 2006. Earlier, he was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies, Observer Research Foundation, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, and United Service Institution of India, all at New Delhi.