Speaker: Professor Michael L’Estrange, National Security College, The Australian National University

1. INDIAN OCEAN NAVAL SYMPOSIUM
26-27 March 2014
Professor Michael L’Estrange
Overview of Indian Ocean Security
Architecture

2. Themes
• rising importance
• shortcomings of existing arrangements
• Indo-Pacific influence
• limits of multilateralism

3. Indian Ocean Security Outlook
• dimensions of growing importance
• legacies from the past
• contemporary and future challenges
• neither complacency nor alarmism

4. Contours of Indian Ocean Security Architecture
• No one size fits all
− regional realties
: major powers
: alliance relationships and strategic
partnerships

5. : plurilateral mechanisms
: sub-regional arrangements
: IORA
: IONS

6. 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

7. − plurilateral co-operation
: IORA
: IONS
: ad hoc coalitions
: CSCAP equivalent