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GREAT POWERPLAY IN THE INDIAN OCEAN IMPLICATIONS FOR THE REGION

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-IV).08      10.31703/gpr.2020(V-IV).08      Published : Dec 2020

Great Powerplay in the Indian Ocean: Implications for the Region

    The Indian Ocean is important due to its strategic location, geopolitical significance and trade activities being performed through it. The United States of America is attaining energy, and other resources have a deep interest in the region. China, through its "string of pearls strategy", is encountering the American goals in the regional by the promotion of its economic activities, securing its dominance in the region, thus posing a constant challenge to the later as well as a regional power i.e. India. Contending interests of regional and international powers in the Indian Ocean Region has led to power projection, affected the security environment, fuelling the issues. The necessity to preserve the available energy resources for survival and to meet future needs is attracting great powers to the Indian Ocean Region. The close alliance between the US and India and dwindling relations between the US and Pakistan are leading towards close ties between Pakistan and China.

    Indian Ocean, Pakistan, Indus Water Treaty, Challenges, Rising China
    (1) Muhammad Umer Hayat
    Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Syeda Aqsa Sajjad
    PhD Scholar, Department of International Relations, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (3) Farrukh Shahzad
    Assistant Professor, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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    CHICAGO : Hayat, Muhammad Umer, Syeda Aqsa Sajjad, and Farrukh Shahzad. 2020. "Great Powerplay in the Indian Ocean: Implications for the Region." Global Political Review, V (IV): 65-74 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2020(V-IV).08
    HARVARD : HAYAT, M. U., SAJJAD, S. A. & SHAHZAD, F. 2020. Great Powerplay in the Indian Ocean: Implications for the Region. Global Political Review, V, 65-74.
    MHRA : Hayat, Muhammad Umer, Syeda Aqsa Sajjad, and Farrukh Shahzad. 2020. "Great Powerplay in the Indian Ocean: Implications for the Region." Global Political Review, V: 65-74
    MLA : Hayat, Muhammad Umer, Syeda Aqsa Sajjad, and Farrukh Shahzad. "Great Powerplay in the Indian Ocean: Implications for the Region." Global Political Review, V.IV (2020): 65-74 Print.
    OXFORD : Hayat, Muhammad Umer, Sajjad, Syeda Aqsa, and Shahzad, Farrukh (2020), "Great Powerplay in the Indian Ocean: Implications for the Region", Global Political Review, V (IV), 65-74
    TURABIAN : Hayat, Muhammad Umer, Syeda Aqsa Sajjad, and Farrukh Shahzad. "Great Powerplay in the Indian Ocean: Implications for the Region." Global Political Review V, no. IV (2020): 65-74. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-IV).08