02989nam 2200373 n 450 991041778700332120230512155234.0(CKB)5310000000011226(NjHacI)995310000000011226(EXLCZ)99531000000001122620230512d2019 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGeopolitics by other means the Indo-Pacific reality /Axel Berkofsky, Sergio MiracolaMilan, Italy :Ledizioni LediPublishing,2019.1 online resource (139 pages)88-6705-929-7 Introduction, Paolo Magri -- 1. What is the Indo-Pacific? The new geopolitics of the Asia-centred rim land, Gurpreet S. Khurana -- 2. The Indo-Pacific as a new infrastructural and economic-trade area: a real competitor to BRI?, Sergio Miracola -- 3. An administration at war with itself: the new US strategy for the Indo-Pacific, Brad Glosserman -- 4. India and the Pacific ocean: the "Act East" between trade, infrastructure and security, Jagannath P. Panda -- 5. Japan and the Indo-Pacific: alive and kicking, Axel Berkofsky -- 6. Australia's economic, infrastructural and security objectives in the Indo-Pacific, John Hemmings -- Conclusions and recommendations for the EU -- The authors.The Asia-Pacific has become the Indo-Pacific region as the US, Japan, Australia and India have decided to join forces and scale-up their political, economic and security cooperation. The message coming from Washington, Tokyo, Canberra and New Delhi is clear: China's Belt and Road Initiative is no longer the only game in town and Beijing's policymakers better get ready for fierce competition. Japan's ongoing and future "quality infrastructure" policies and investments in the Indo-Pacific, in particular, make it very clear that Tokyo wants a (much) bigger slice of the pie of infrastructure investments in the region. China's territorial expansionism in the South China Sea and its increasing interests and presence in countries in South Asia have done their share to help the four aforesaid countries expand their security and defence ties. Beijing, of course, smells containment in all of this and it probably has a point. Who will have the upper hand in shaping and defining Asian security and providing developing South and Southeast Asia with badly-needed infrastructure: the US and Japan together with its allies or the increasingly assertive and uncompromising China and its Belt and Road Initiative?Geopolitics by other means Security, InternationalSecurity, International.355.033Berkofsky Axel524719Miracola SergioNjHacINjHaclBOOK9910417787003321Geopolitics by other means2565930UNINA