Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2020.1825201
J. O’Leary, Maurice C. Goodman, A. Tuda, Milali Machumu, L. West
ABSTRACT As marine ecosystems decline globally, scientists recommend increasing the coverage of marine protected areas (MPAs), but many are not effectively managed to deliver benefits. Community integration into decision-making can increase effectiveness by supporting behavior change, but this poses implementation challenges. We examine differences in adaptive capacity, community engagement, and perceived MPA benefits using interviews and focal groups in two fishing communities from MPAs with different management strategies and geographic settings: a centrally managed MPA in Kenya and a co-managed MPA in Tanzania. Far fewer Kenyan community members (37%) felt they benefited from the MPA compared to Tanzanian community (95%). Agency, trust, and MPA support were largely similar. Both systems had challenges that reduced collaborative action including: low staff-community interaction and communication, leadership challenges, and social conflict. We identified pathways towards improved co-management that transcend systems: institutional prioritization of community integration, investment in community leadership, mapping social networks, and adequate MPA budgets.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2020.1820690
A. Sengupta
ABSTRACT Traditionally geo-political spatial imaginations have been restricted to the continental expanse with the understanding that oceans formed the shared commons. However, he delimitation of oceanic spaces as ‘natural regions’ is therefore increasingly becoming as significant today to strategic discourse as continental spaces and subject to similar terminological transformations. This article argues that the emergence of a common narrative built around historical interactions along sea lanes, the re-conceptualization of ocean spaces and the increasing recognition of the significance of ‘Blue Economy’ calls for a critical understanding of ocean spaces. In the twenty-first century this has become a structural component of international politics expanding into a wider array of policy fields in a way that was seldom evident even in the last decade of the previous century, when the mapping of oceans assumed critical political relevance. In this background, this article examines the emergence of the Bay of Bengal as a ‘new’ region with associated regional organizations.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2020.1825200
S. Mannan, Henrik Nilsson, Tafsir Johansson, C. Schofield
ABSTRACT The article explores stakeholder participation in marine spatial planning with particular reference to Bangladesh, a country which has committed to developing such an ocean management approach but remains at an early stage in the process. A contextual overview of the marine environment, resources and economic activities within the maritime areas of Bangladesh is provided. Definitions and concepts of marine spatial planning are critically discussed and the need to identify and understand the roles, expectations and interests of diverse stakeholders to deliver successful implementation emphasised. An overview and synthesis of a survey of maritime stakeholders in Bangladesh is provided with a view to enhancing understanding of their engagement processes, relationships and conflicts. Recommendations to reconcile conflicting uses and help facilitate the development of marine spatial planning in Bangladesh and potentially the Bay of Bengal more widely.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-14DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2020.1803564
Shivshankar Menon
Professor Medha Bisht of the South Asian University has written a significant analysis of Kautilya’s ideas in the Arthashastra, situating them in the framework of current international relations (I...
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2020.1760603
Erika J. Techera
towards the Korean Peninsula, but its historical complexes within this region have limited its role. The evolution of the South China Sea issue blurs the line between military and paramilitary actions which the author believes creates maritime security challenges for US and ASEAN. Chapter 9 is a case study of sea level rise in the Pearl River Delta, while Chapter 10 presents a good example of geopolitical calculation of energy and power, arguing ‘the restoration of American energy primacy and the shift in power from producers to consumers is favorable to the US strategy of forward defense through maritime power projection in Asia’ (p. 174). The resurgence of US oil and natural gas is the second chance for the US continuing its global hegemony. The last part of this volume ‘the Arctic & the future of the World’s Oceans’ includes 5 chapters which provide a relatively insightful observations of the less noticed Arctic. The balance between environmentalism and exploitation in the Arctic seems to be the key for the sustainable development which essentially means the balance between national interests and global interests (Chapter 11). Chapters 12 and 13 discuss two soft issues in the Arctic discourse, national imagination and fisheries. Chapter 12 calls for the US public to claim its Arctic interests by having a better understanding of the Arctic. Chapter 13 takes a more internationalist approach on fisheries management in the Arctic and explores the possible international governance for this issue. Chapter 14 again draws us back to the cruel reality of power competition in the Arctic between Russia and NATO. This volume is beneficial for readers to have a broader view on the maritime issues. This volume tries very hard to not mention the US in the title, the keywords Eurasia, Indian Ocean, Pacific Asia and the Arctic in the title do not link to the US directly, yet the shadow of the US is present in most of the chapters. Nationalism and internationalism in maritime security in this book are both included which somehow leads the reader forward and backward at the same time; a good example of the reality we are living with. Given the complexity of the issues discussed in this volume, the volume might have been better edited if it was categorized by issues rather than regions.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2020.1767384
N. Roy
This ambitious and incisive book The New World Order and the Indian Imperative details the changing international order and offers a succinct analysis of the state of the world today, which is now in complete flux. The book begins with a prologue that narrates the events towards the close of the last decade. These events depict the fluidity of the global balance of power: Trump’s ‘America first’ and ‘Isolationist policy’; the aggressive and expansionist rise of China; the emergence of ‘illiberal democracies’; great power ambition; ‘strongmen,’ and the return of identity politics. The authors contend that the world order has led to marked tensions globally. Amidst political polarization, technological transformation, and major global power shifts, uncertainty surrounds the international liberal order, which therefore raises the obvious question of “where do we go from here?” New centres of power, new alliances and new rivalries are emerging, putting pressure on institutions governing global trade and security. As power is shifting and dispersing, domains for geopolitical rivalry or participation are also extending. The central aim of the book, therefore, is to describe and understand this phenomenon of disorder and provide a solution to it (p.xviii). Dr Shashi Tharoor and Dr Samir Saran, two of the most influential thinkers and shapers of policy for India and beyond, have united on this eager and promising plan, which blueprints the role that India could play on the world stage in a new international order. elements: technology highly monopolised by the global north favored a market-based arrangement; failure or negligence of the global north to live up to its financial obligations in areas of climate change and development; research and knowledge dependent on the paramountcy of the global north. The that the climate change negotiations and sustainable development discourse carried over various conventions have been unsuccessful in fully addressing climate governance. So at that point, what are the solutions to How would we defuse polarization and
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2019.1640575
S. De Silva
ABSTRACT Competition is a natural byproduct of major powers navigating an anarchic world. Small states operating in such a milieu however, face a dilemma when strategizing their foreign policy. At present, two regional behemoths – India and China – remain locked in a Realpolitik affray as they vie for influence by enticing and attracting South Asian states through economic, security and diplomatic initiatives. How do these structural dynamics impact Sri Lanka’s policymaking process? Moreover, has the island been able to mount a timely and appropriate response to structural dictates? In what way has domestic variables influenced and channeled policy preferences in Sri Lanka since 2015? By adopting a Neoclassical Realist frame of analysis, this paper appraises the impact made by the external environment and domestic intervening variables on the island’s foreign policy trajectory. It concludes that domestic intervening variables drew the island away from optimal choices in its relations with India and China.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2020.1767382
C. Bouchard
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2020.1781400
S. Chaturvedi
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2020.1770949
S. Bashfield
Abstract This article examines the implications for the U.S. military base in Diego Garcia, located in the Chagos Archipelago, in the event that sovereignty of the atoll is ceded from the U.K. to Mauritius. Diego Garcia has become a critically important military base, facilitating U.S. power projection into the Indian Ocean, Middle East and Africa. The legality and future of British sovereignty over the atoll was challenged in 2019 in both the International Court of Justice and United Nations General Assembly. This article finds that Mauritian sovereignty of Diego Garcia would have considerable adverse consequences for U.S. military activity, potentially prohibiting many of the core functions the facility currently performs, as under U.K. sovereignty. Further, this article examines the strategic utility in Diego Garcia for the U.S. and U.K. governments, which demonstrates why these two nations are willing to endure considerable reputational costs and international backlash for retention of the atoll.
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