Indian Ocean Rising: Maritime and Security Policy Challenges
July 17, 2012
The Indian Ocean represents an increasingly significant avenue for global trade
and an arena for global security. Growing prosperity in Asia; increasing
dependence on natural-resource flows linking producers and consumers across the
Middle East, Africa, and Asia; and globalized supply chains and distribution
networks are knitting the region ever more closely together by sea. At the same
time, emerging problems - ranging from piracy, prospective naval rivalries
among rising powers, and territorial disputes in the regional seas to global
environmental pressures on marine resources and coastal infrastructure - pose
significant governance challenges for policy makers around the Indian Ocean
region.
A new Stimson publication, Indian Ocean Rising, assesses the emerging
security, socio-economic, commercial, and environmental trends that will shape
the region in the coming decades and examines their implications for decision
makers and stakeholders.
Panel of international experts featuring:
Rupert Herbert-Burns
(Royal Naval Reserve)
Director, Triton Consulting; previously Director of Intelligence at Lloyd's
Marine Intelligence Unit
Mat Burrows
Counselor, The National Intelligence Council; Director of the Analysis and
Production Staff, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
David Goldwyn
President, Goldwyn Global Strategies; previously State Department Coordinator
for International Energy Affairs (2009-2011)
Caitlyn Antrim
Executive Director, Rule of Law Committee for the Oceans
David Michel
Director, Environmental Security Program, Stimson