DARSHANA M. BARUAH, NITYA LABH
- MARCH 28, 2023
- ARTICLE
Island nations in the Indian and Pacific Oceans are important to great power competition, but they are often excluded from policy discussions about the Indo-Pacific. The second annual Islands Dialogue aimed to change that.
https://carnegieendowment.org/files/Baruah_Labh_-_Indo-Pacific_Islands_final.pdf
In the last decade, governments around the world have determined that the next major geopolitical shift will emerge and be decided in the Indo-Pacific. The United States, China, India, and others have crafted maritime strategies toward the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Developments in and around the island nations in these oceans—from Sri Lanka to the Solomon Islands—are therefore important to great power competition in the twenty-first century. But these island nations are often ignored. They are not at the forefront of shaping the Indo-Pacific agenda, despite it being very much about and influenced by them.
In an effort to better study the perspectives and ideas of leaders and policymakers from island nations, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Tokyo hosted “Ocean Nations: The 2nd Annual Indo-Pacific Islands Dialogue” in September 2022. This article is based on the conversations, discussions, and themes that emerged from the event.
- ISLAND AGENCY
- GEOPOLITICS
- CLIMATE CHANGE
- ACCESSIBILITY TO FINANCE
- MARITIME SECURITY
- CONCLUSION
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