Economic Development and Contemporary Geopolitics: The Indian Ocean Rim

This book attempts to combine different disciplines under the contemporary geopolitics. The primary aim of this book is to depict the plethora of geographical and economic factors shaping the dynamics of the Indian Ocean Rim milieu and its surrounding geopolitical space. The interaction of these factors in analysed in the context of the converging interests of states and non-state actors, seen through the prism of various dimensions. The facts, figures and analysis presented here are aimed at a general readership as well as a large coterie of professionals-scholars, students and policy maker’s.