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The rise & return the indo-pacific
The genesis of the present volume goes back almost 20 years to the creation of
the Indian Ocean Research Group and its launch in Chandigarh in 2002. Some
of the research collaboration since then between Sanjay Chaturvedi, Timothy Doyle,
and Dennis Rumley has been concerned with the nature of maritime regions—
their construction and definition, their usage and institutionalization, and the
conflicts and contestations that have emerged during these processes. Our work
initially focused upon the ‘Indian Ocean region’ but inevitably became involved
in critically evaluating differing views of state adherence to particular regional
structures, including that of the ‘Indo-Pacific region’. Some of the early results of
this work were discussed in our joint paper published in 2012: ‘“Securing” the
Indian Ocean? Competing Regional Security Constructions”, Journal of the Indian
Ocean Region, Vol. 8 (1), pp. 1–20. We owe a very considerable debt of gratitude
to our dear brother Sanjay who has been our close companion on an amazing
(sometimes ‘floral’) journey around the region both physically and mentally
for so long.
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