Antipiracy and Unusual Coalitions in the Indian Ocean Region: China’s Changing Role and Confidence Building with India

Piracy and threats from non-state actors in the Gulf of Aden have triggered states to cooperate in securing waterways and the sea lines of communication, a development that is fundamentally transforming the region’s maritime security environment. As a result, not only has this region’s strategic importance been reaffirmed, but it has also gained tremendous importance through the presence of several actors, especially China and India. Since 2008, these two countries have been involved in larger global actions against piracy, which has led to increasing contact between their navies and more exposure of their capabilities. Will the broader Indian Ocean region emerge as an area of cooperation or competition between China and India? Drawing on interviews carried out with Chinese and European experts from 2012 to 2015, this article explores the reasons for and instruments of cooperation in antipiracy and the degree to which China uses antipiracy efforts as confidence-building measures.

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The Role of China and India in the G20 and BRICS: Commonalities or Competitive Behaviour?

This paper examines China and India’s relationship within the ambit of the G20 process and the autonomous BRICS institutional architecture. The evolving relationship of each of these two emerging powers within these different institutional settings demonstrates a degree of agentic commonality and distinction. China’s and India’s approaches to both the G20 and the BRICS summit processes high-light a combination of status-seeking and hedging behaviour. While China’s cautious approach is complemented by assertive leadership in matters of national interest, India’s leadership has a very specific orientation towards developmental issues. Whereas China’s approach focuses on the United States and the rest of the West, India’s approach is increasingly positioned as a response to China.

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Sino–Indian Economic Ties since 1988: Progress, Problems, and Prospects for Future Development

This article takes stock of the evolution of bilateral economic ties between China and India since the early 1990s. It analyses the factors that have contributed to the expansion of this important aspect of their relationship, but also highlights the obstacles, in particular the politico-strategic variables, to further expansion of economic ties, including investments. It argues that while both Beijing and New Delhi recognise the importance of trade and investment in their relationship, future growth in bilateral economic ties depends on how the two countries can successfully deal with issues such as trade imbalance, market access, infrastructure, and regulatory environment. But more importantly, Beijing and New Delhi must seriously address each other’s security concerns, including those areas that affect their perceptions of economic security and consequently their policies towards bilateral and regional cooperation.

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New Concerns, More Cooperation? How Non-Traditional Security Issues Affect Sino–Indian Relations

Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2016: Non-Traditional Security in Sino–Indian Relations

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The Norfolk mystery; The Cornish Coast murder; The Lake District murder

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Migrant Women’s Voices: talking about life and work in the UK since 1945

Volume 42, Issue 1, February 2017, Page 147-148
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We are an African People: independent education, Black Power, and the radical imagination

Volume 42, Issue 1, February 2017, Page 150-152
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Race, Ethnicity and the Women’s Movement in England, 1968–1993

Volume 42, Issue 1, February 2017, Page 149-150
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Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels: how the two lives of Grace Oakeshott defined an era

Volume 42, Issue 1, February 2017, Page 152-154
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Time, history and the making of the industrial middle class: the story of Samuel Smith

Volume 42, Issue 1, February 2017, Page 29-51
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