Power Plays in the Indian Ocean

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Center Stage for the Twenty-first Century
Power Plays in the Indian Ocean
Robert D. Kaplan

From Foreign Affairs, March/April 2009


Summary: Already the world's preeminent energy and trade interstate seaway, the Indian Ocean will matter even more as India and China enter into a dynamic great-power rivalry in these waters.

Robert D. Kaplan, a National Correspondent for The Atlantic and a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, in Washington, D.C., is writing a book on the Indian Ocean. He recently was the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U.S. Naval Academy.