The Political Economy of Indian Ocean Maritime Africa

by Ambassador KV Bhagirath, Dennis Rumley

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The outcome of an international conference held at Nairobi in March 2014, the volume is an attempt to discuss and evaluate Indian Ocean Maritime Africa’s (IOMA) changing geo-economic and geo-political linkages to other Indian Ocean Rim States. The contributions view the evolving nature and significance of IOMA, the geopolitics of official development assistance in Indian Ocean Africa, maritime security and its impact in the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) region. The spotlight is on the region’s link with other countries such as the African countries’ economic relationships, including a focus on trade and investment, with Indian Ocean Rim States, and China’s presence in the East African countries. They specifically take up India-Tanzania trade and investment flows and India’s other concerns. They shed light on the multi-facteted and multi-sectoral potential of Africa, demonstrating the progress in maritime research and analysing the prospects for cooperative regional maritime environment.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dennis Rumley

Dennis Rumley is associate Professor, School of social and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia. He gained a Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia and has taught at the University of Western Australia since then, apart from 1991-3 when he was Professor of Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo. He has published widely in various areas of political geography. His most recent book is the Geopolitics of Australia's Regional Relation, and his current research projects are in the areas of water security, Australia's "arc of instability", regionalism and Australia-Asia relations. He is a full member of the International Geographical Union Commission on the world Political Map, English-language editor of Chiri, the Japanese journal of human geography, and on the editorial boards of Geojournal and Political Geography.