IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/indqtr/v76y2020i3p461-478.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Emerging Contours of Contemporary Asian Maritime Connectivity: Economic and Strategic Objectives

Author

Listed:
  • Vivek Mishra

    (Vivek Mishra is a Research Fellow in Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, and Deputy Director in Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies, Bhubaneswar.)

  • Sayantan Haldar

    (Sayantan Haldar is finishing MA in Political Science from Presidency University, Kolkata.)

Abstract

This article intends to look at how contemporary and future Asian connectivity linkages are likely to impact Asian geopolitics and geo-strategy. While China has dominated the contemporary connectivity discourse with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), other players such as Australia, India, Japan and the USA are engaged in their own connectivity bids which often converge and intersect in the region. As a result, the countries involved in the Indo-Pacific cross-linkages are tacitly entering a game of one-upmanship. Influence through connectivity linkages has also shifted the discourse around balance of power for countries to balance of influence. It is in this context that initiatives such as the Mausam find centrality in the country’s changing outlook. This article attempts to look at Asian connectivity from a dual perspective of economic competition, on one hand, and strategic calculations, on the other hand. The scope of the article is limited to analysing China, India and Japan as leading Asian countries in the emerging connectivity competition, besides the USA as the most important external players in Asian connectivity geopolitics and geo-strategy.

Suggested Citation

  • Vivek Mishra & Sayantan Haldar, 2020. "Emerging Contours of Contemporary Asian Maritime Connectivity: Economic and Strategic Objectives," India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, , vol. 76(3), pages 461-478, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:indqtr:v:76:y:2020:i:3:p:461-478
    DOI: 10.1177/0974928420936136
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0974928420936136
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0974928420936136?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Chhibber, Ajay, 2015. "China's One Belt One Road Strategy: The New Financial Institutions and India's Options," Working Papers 15/155, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.
    2. Ajay Chhibber, 2017. "China's One Belt One Road Strategy: The New Financial Institutions and India’s Options," Working Papers 2017-7, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Xueyi Qin & Yongsheng Qian & Junwei Zeng & Xuting Wei, 2022. "Accessibility and Economic Connections between Cities of the New Western Land–Sea Corridor in China—Enlightenments to the Passageway Strategy of Gansu Province," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(8), pages 1-14, April.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Uma Purushothaman & Nandan Unnikrishnan, 2019. "A Tale of Many Roads: India’s Approach to Connectivity Projects in Eurasia," India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, , vol. 75(1), pages 69-86, March.
    2. Badar Alam Iqbal & Mohd Nayyer Rahman & Shaista Sami, 2019. "Impact of Belt and Road Initiative on Asian Economies," Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies, Emerging Markets Forum, vol. 11(3), pages 260-277, September.
    3. Leonid nakov & Vlado Dimovski & Igor Ivanovski, 2020. "China - Cee Relations, In-Depth Analyses of 16+1 Mechanism Within Obor Initiative," South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics, Association of Economic Universities of South and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region, vol. 18(2), pages 181-196.
    4. Yuanbo Li & Xufeng Zhu, 2019. "The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-22, April.
    5. Kong, Qunxi & Chen, Afei & Shen, Chenrong & Wong, Zoey, 2021. "Has the Belt and Road Initiative improved the quality of economic growth in China's cities?," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 870-883.
    6. Zhiheng Wu & Guisheng Hou & Baogui Xin, 2020. "Has the Belt and Road Initiative Brought New Opportunities to Countries Along the Routes to Participate in Global Value Chains?," SAGE Open, , vol. 10(1), pages 21582440209, January.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:indqtr:v:76:y:2020:i:3:p:461-478. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.