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China's strategic presence in East African ports: implications for Indian Ocean security
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Abstract This paper examines how China's presence in the East African seaports has created a threat to the Indian Ocean's security. In particular, the research empirically analyses whether China's growing activities in the Western Indian Ocean along the East African coast have dismantled the security archite... mehr
This paper examines how China's presence in the East African seaports has created a threat to the Indian Ocean's security. In particular, the research empirically analyses whether China's growing activities in the Western Indian Ocean along the East African coast have dismantled the security architecture of the Indo-Pacific. This paper aims to understand the responses of India and her allies in containing China's rise in the region. The paper has taken three East African ports, Dar es Salaam, Lamu, and Doraleh port of Djibouti, as a case study to examine how Chinese presence in these three ports could dismantle the security architecture of Indo-Pacific in the Western Indian Ocean region. The paper demonstrates that the present competition of power projection in the Indian Ocean is a power maximization strategy for the national security of each state. Using primary and secondary data available on China, India, and other states' policies and activities, the study finds that it is a policy failure of the Indo-Pacific, accelerating China's rise in the region. However, the Indo-Pacific partners are revamping their policies to check China's rise in the Indian Ocean region.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
China; USA; Indien; Indischer Ozean; Ostafrika; internationale Sicherheit; Hafen; nationale Sicherheit
Klassifikation
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
African Sea Ports; Debt Trap; Indo-Pacific; Western Indian Ocean; US
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 501-517
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 9 (2023) 3
ISSN
1857-9760
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)