“Concept of Indo-Pacific and its Implication in Southeast Asia: India, Australia and Japan are profound speaking of such a geostrategic terminology instead of Asia-Pacific”
Introduction Indo-Pacific was originally a concept of geography that links two regions of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The term ‘Indo-Pacific’ explains, recently in modern world, a vital and contiguous strategic arena linking the eastern India and Western Pacific oceans. Accompanying the concept is the notion of a revived partnership: the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue between the United States, Australia, India and Japan (Quad). Unlike the other Quad powers, India’s maritime interests and strategy sit uneasily with those Quad members. India’s power is an Indian Ocean vision, rather than an Indo-Pacific vision. In the short term, bound by the strategic primacy of the Indian Ocean and by the constraints with its sea-power projection, India’s involvement with the Indo-Pacific framework will remain enormously diplomatic, economic and rhetorical. Strategically, India focuses significantly on the west of the Strait of Malacca (Chaudhury & Sullivan de Estrada, 2...