This book is the inaugural volume of the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG) and is based on a selection of papers presented at the IORG launch in Chandigarh in November 2002. The volume seeks to emphasize the complexity and historical and contemporary geopolitical significance of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). Second, it aims to propagate the necessity for increased intra-regional cooperation, especially in terms of economic and environmental security, maritime boundaries, sea lane security and ocean management, in the spirit of open regionalism, in order to ensure a more secure IOR. Third, the volume initiates an agenda for future social science policy-oriented research. The book should be of particular interest to policy-makers, business people and academics, as well as citizens of the IOR.
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.
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