Why is the Indo-Pacific attracting so much attention? Interview with Christophe Jaffrelot, Delphine Allès, and Patrick Köllner
What is the so-called Indo-Pacific, and why is this region attracting attention as a site of global power dynamics? In the recently published Order and Agency in the Indo-Pacific, edited by Christophe Jaffrelot, Delphine Allès, and Patrick Köllner, a set of internationally recognised experts speak to and update existing scholarly discussions on Indo-Pacific dynamics, investigating the nexus of order(ing) and agency in that strategic space.
The authors take strategic competition between the United States and China as a contextual given and explore the Indo-Pacific as an interregnum, in terms of institutional dynamics and in terms of geo-narratives, among other issues.
Read our interview with the three editors of the book and co-organisers of the Observatory of the Indo-Pacific, the major source of the research presented in the volume.
