Abstract
The Indo-Pacific Ocean Region is a relatively new geopolitical entity that has particular features involving several economic, strategic, and political interests linked with its spatial dimension. This research is aimed at the analysis of emerging patterns of maritime power politics, especially, the struggle to control the Indo-Pacific Ocean region. For this purpose, the theoretical framework uses a synthesis of three approaches, i.e., geo-economics, geostrategic, and geopolitical as variables and instruments of maritime power politics and two inside-out and outside-in methods which act as dynamics for the highly complex interplay of regional and extra-regional actors and stakeholders in the oceanic region. The research has used hermeneutical style to interpret and analyze the power politics of this newly-emerged maritime region in which India, Pakistan, the US, and China have emerged as the core actors with their national interests. The US interests in India are multifold, i.e., enabling India to act as regional hegemon, to control geopolitics of the region, and to counter Chinese ambitions to command and control the region; while the Indian approach has been proactive in nature and its aspiration to explore and exploit the “blue” dimensions is quite challenging for the rest of the regional and extra-regional actors.
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