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Discuss the rationale behind replacing the “Asia-Pacific” strategy with the new term “Indo-Pacific” strategy.

  • UPSC 2024
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  • Recent Developments in Indian Foreign Policy

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The Asia-Pacific, a Pacific-rim economic construct of the 1960s institutionalised in APEC (1989), treated the Indian Ocean as a separate theatre, and India was never admitted to APEC. Rory Medcalf argues in Contest for the Indo-Pacific (2020) that maps are instruments of power: the region one draws decides who is central. The shift to the…

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