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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Orinigal Title Page -- Orinigal Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Prologue Charting Cooperation and Challenges: Australia and the Indian Ocean Region -- Chapter 1 Changing Geopolitical Orientations, Regional Cooperation and Security Concerns in the Indian Ocean -- GEOPOLITICAL ORIENTATIONS -- Chapter 2 The British Empire in the Indian Ocean -- Chapter 3 The West in the Geopolitics of the Indian Ocean and India -- Chapter 4 Emergence of a New Geopolitical Era in the Indian Ocean: Characteristics, Issues and Limitations of the Indianoceanic Order -- REGIONALISM -- Chapter 5 "There Once was an Ugly Duckling ...", or, the Sad History of the Good Ship IOR-ARC -- Chapter 6 Sub-Regional Cooperation in South Asia: The Kunming Initiative -- Chapter 7 South Africa, the Indian Ocean and SADC -- NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES -- Chapter 8 An Agenda for Environmental Security in the Indian Ocean Region -- Chapter 9 Re-envisioning Transboundary Water Disputes as Developmental Conflicts -- Chapter 10 Recent Population Movements between South Asia and Australia: Trends and Implications -- OCEAN SECURITY ISSUES -- Chapter 11 Indian Ocean Maritime Boundaries: Jurisdictional Dimensions and Cooperative Measures -- Chapter 12 Contemporary Piracy, Terrorism and Disorder at Sea: Challenges for Sea-Lane Security in the Indian Ocean -- Chapter 13 Freedom of Navigation and Indian Ocean Security: A Geopolitical Analysis -- Chapter 14 The Future for Indian Ocean Cooperation -- Index.

Environmental security and biodiversity : critical policy themes and issues / Swaran Singh -- Overview of institutional arrangements for fisheries and marine biodiversity in the Indian Ocean / Dennis Rumley -- The Indian Ocean fishery : resources and exploitation within and outside national jurisdictional limits / Vivian Louis Forbes -- Competing claims to maritime jurisdiction in the Indian Ocean : implications for regional marine biodiversity and fisheries / Clive Schofield -- Indigenous fishing in the Kimberley region of Western Australia : a case study of highly regulated fisheries in coastal communities / Hilary Rumley -- The (in)security of fishermen in South Asia / A. Subramanyam Raju -- Fisheries in the French Indian Ocean territories / Christian Bouchard -- Mauritius : a seafood hub? / Jean Houbert -- The impact of ship ballast on the aquatic-based food supply chain / Sanjay Chaturvedi -- Issues in policy and law in the conservation of marine biodversity : a Malaysian case study / Mohd Nizam Basiron -- Regional cooperation : a case study of the western Indian Ocean tuna fisheries / Jane Mbendo and Martin Tsamenyi -- Regulatory and market-based instruments in the governance of fisheries and marine protected areas in the Indian Ocean region : in search of cooperative governance / Timothy Doyle and Marcus Haward -- The future for Indian Ocean fisheries / Sanjay Chaturvedi, Vijay Sakhuja, and Dennis Rumley

This book is unique in that it is the first multidisciplinary attempt to critically evaluate the oft-quoted arc of instability both conceptually and in terms of a series of themes and case studies from regional experts. It is of particular interest to specialists in foreign affairs, international relations and political geography, especially in Southeast Asia and Australia and the Southwest Pacific. The aim of this book is to describe, discuss and evaluate the causes and likely implications of the contested notion of an emergent arc of instability for Australia and its region. The increasing importance of non-traditional security threats since the end of the Cold War has engendered a regional geopolitical transformation in the character of Australia's region of primary strategic interest to one of perceived instability on the part of the Australian government. Since the nature of the main security threats has shifted away from traditional state-based to non-state-based threats, this has some fundamental implications both for regional relations and for the structure and conduct of Australian regional security policy. All of the states and territories considered in the book have several things in common. Most are post-colonial states or state territories whose histories and social, economic and political structures raise concerns about their capacity to effectively deal with internal conflicts and, in some cases, possible external hostilities or blandishments. Indeed, some of these states exhibit a significant degree of ODA dependence, which, in turn, gives Australia considerable political influence in their affairs. The book demonstrates that the nature and degree of instability, the way it is locally perceived, the differential relevance of some of its causes and the capacity of states to manage conflict varies considerably among the various case studies. It raises a wide range of issues and questions which are relevant for all regional policy-makers with an interest in maintaining regional stability. It offers suggestions for further research on a wide range of regional issues.

MANY STUDIES HAVE EXAMINED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SOCIAL CONTEXT IN WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL LIVES AND THE EFFECT THIS HAS ON THEIR POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR. ALMOST WITHOUT EXCEPTION, SOCIAL CONTEXT HAS BEEN FOUND TO BE SUBSTANTIAL ELECTORAL SIGNIFICANCE. BY APPLYING MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS TO AGGREGATE- AND INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL AUSTRALIAN AND BRITISH DATA, THESE CLAIMS ARE QUESTIONED. THE PAPER ARGUES, FIRSTLY, THAT FINDINGS WHICH HAVE EMPHASIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT ARE GREATLY OVERESTIMATED AND CAUSED BY A FAILURE TO CONTROL FOR A SUFFICIENTLY WIDE RANGE OF VARIABLES; ONCE THESE CONTROLS ARE INTRODUCED, THE ELECTORAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CONTEXT DISAPPEARS IN BRITAIN, AND IS GREATLY REDUCED IN AUSTRALIA. SECONDLY, THE SMALL BUT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT EFFECT OF CONTEXT IN AUSTRALIA IS THE RESULT OF THE COMPULSORY VOTING SYSTEM IN THAT COUNTRY. IN BRITAIN, IT IS ARGUED THAT NON-VOTERS ARE MOST LIKELY TO TAKE THEIR ELECTORAL CUES FROM THEIR IMMEDIATE CONTEXT, BUT SINCE THEY ABSTAIN, THERE IS NO CONTEXTUAL EFFECT. IN AUSTRALIA, BY CONTRAST, THEY ARE FORCED TO VOTE BY LAW AND CAUSE THE SMALL CONTEXTUAL EFFECT FOUND THERE.