India's Role in the Indian Ocean Region in the 21st Century: Maritime Governance Perspective

by Tomasz Lukaszuk

Overview

The book explores India’s role as a normative power, with solid credentials based on a long history of thalassic experience of states of South India. It examines how India has been interpreting international law and rules for the exploitation of living and non-living resources in her way.

The book presents an analysis of India’s activities in four key areas of maritime governance and a description of its roles in the Indian Ocean Region. It highlights India as a maritime security and sustainable maritime development model alternative to the Chinese. The volume also showcases a holistic, interdisciplinary picture of India’s maritime policy and thoroughly explains its historical and semiotic background. Further, it discusses India’s endeavours as a new version of the ASEAN+ cooperation model combined with the US hub and spoke system adapted to new time and place conditions.

Researchers interested in India, the Indian Ocean, and maritime affairs in general would find the book informative and systematising knowledge about maritime governance in the Indian Ocean Region. The book will be useful to students, researchers, and teachers from the departments of international relations, political science, economics, public policy and administration, and defence studies. It will especially be a useful read for diplomats, policy analysts, think tank members, and those interested in international law of the sea and maritime research centres. It also offers practical insights for those interested in Indian foreign policy, the Indian Ocean Region, and maritime governance in general and scholars researching the role of states in international relations, the instruments of foreign policies of emerging powers in the Global South, and the maritime strategies of developing countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032912431
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/25/2025
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tomasz Łukaszuk has a PhD in political science and administration, is a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw (Poland), and is the former ambassador of Poland to the Republic of Indonesia (2005–2010) and the Republic of India (2014–2017). He has served also as a Deputy Director (2002–2005) and Director (2010–2012) of Asia and the Pacific Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland. He participated in research projects under the European Commission grants "Global India" (2017–2021) and "Eurasian Insights: Strengthening Indo-Pacific Studies in Europe" (2018–2022). As a member of the International Studies Association, he participated in conferences at universities and think tanks in Heidelberg, Brussels, London, New Delhi, Tokyo, and Jakarta.

Table of Contents

1. The concept of maritime governance in international relations. 2. The concept of IOR and maritime governance in Indian foreign policy. 3. India’s role in the legal maritime framework in IOR. 4. India’s role in maritime security in IOR 5. India’s sustainable maritime development activities in the Indian Ocean Region. 6. India’s role in the Indian Ocean Region. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.