Security Challenges
Volume 16, No.3 (2020)
The Indo-Pacific: From Concept to Contest
Over the last decade the Indo-Pacific has emerged as an important strategic concept. The idea of the Indo-Pacific springs from the observation that fundamental changes in economic and political dynamics of the littoral states of the Pacific and Indian Oceans means that they should no longer be seen as separate theatres for strategic purposes. Rather, major powers are increasingly interacting along the Eurasian littoral and related maritime zones.