Indo-Pacific: The Reconstruction of a Region

Author(s): Boas Lieberherr, Linda Maduz
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series Editor(s): Andreas Wenger
Book Title: Strategic Trends 2022: Key Developments in Global Affairs
Series: Strategic Trends
Pages: 89-115
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2022
Publication Place: Zürich

The Indo-Pacific represents a new conceptualization of who and what constitutes Asia. Australia, India, Japan, and the United States are its main proponents. The Indian Ocean region and the Asia-Pacific are understood as one contiguous area. Although the new concept’s trajectory remains unclear, the transition from the hitherto used “Asia-Pacific” is associated with four overarching trends: a shift from an economy- to a security-dominated agenda, bottom-up to top-down regionalism, multilateralism to minilateralism, and including to excluding China.

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