INDIAN OCEAN NAVAL SYMPOSIUM

26-27 March 2014

Professor Michael L’Estrange

Overview of Indian Ocean Security

Architecture

Themes

• rising importance

• shortcomings of existing arrangements

• Indo-Pacific influence

• limits of multilateralism

Indian Ocean Security Outlook

• dimensions of growing importance

• legacies from the past

• contemporary and future challenges

• neither complacency nor alarmism

Contours of Indian Ocean Security Architecture

• No one size fits all

− regional realties

: major powers

: alliance relationships and strategic

partnerships

: plurilateral mechanisms

: sub-regional arrangements

: IORA

: IONS

Future Indian Ocean Security Architecture

• How to fill existing and emerging gaps

• Priorities

− Indo-Pacific intersections and major

powers dialogue

− evolution of bilateral alliance and

security partnerships

− plurilateral co-operation

: IORA

: IONS

: ad hoc coalitions

: CSCAP equivalent