The Indian Ocean Region

Anthony H. Cordesman; Abdullah Toukan

doi:10.5771/9781442240216

Summary

The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is one of the most areas of the world in human terms. This study provides a comprehensive overview of the subregions and countries in the IOR, drawing heavily on a new country risk assessment model developed by Abdullah Toukan, a senior associate with the Burke Chair at CSIS. It provides detailed graphs, tables, and maps covering the IOR as a whole, each major subregion, and each of the thirty-two countries in the region as well as the impact of U.S. and Chinese military forces.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-4020-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-4021-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 402
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table ofContents No access
2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY No access
1. 1. Subregion by Subregion and Country by Country No access
2. 1. Regional Contested Spaces No access
  2. Major Strategic Issues and Risks No access
3. 1. Methodology Overview of the Country Risk Assessment Model No access
4. QUALITY OF GOVERNANCE No access
5. 1. Comparing Ease of Doing Business, Global Competitiveness, and Macroeconomic StabilityRankings No access
  2. Comparing Ease of Doing Business and Governance Rankings No access
6. 1. The Human Development Index No access
  2. Gender Inequality Index No access
7. USING THE COUNTRY RISK ASSESSMENT MODEL No access
8. THE NEED FOR BETTER ECONOMIC DATA AND PLANNING No access
1. Key Population Trends No access
2. THE NEED FOR BETTER DATA AND PLANNING No access
1. IEA ESTIMATES No access
2. 1. OECD (Developed) Economies No access
  2. Non-OECD Developing Economies: Asia No access
  3. Non-OECD Developing Economies: Africa and Middle East No access
3. ESTIMATING THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL ENERGY TRENDS No access
4. THE IMPACT OF IOR ENERGY TRENDS No access
5. THE IMPACT OF GULF PETROLEUM PRODUCTION AND EXPORTS No access
6. SCENARIOS FOR ESTIMATING GULF PRODUCTION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE IOR No access
7. IRANIAN OIL PRODUCTION AND EXPORTS, SANCTIONS, AND THE P5+1 No access
8. THE PETROLEUM “PIVOT TO ASIA” AND ITS IMPACT ON IOR SECURITY No access
9. THE IMPACT OF INCREASES IN ASIA DEMAND FOR IOR PETROLEUM AND OTHER LIQUIDS No access
10. SMALLER, BUT SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN ASIA DEMAND FOR IOR RISING ASIAN GAS PRODUCTION No access
11. 1. The Impact of Increased American Production of Petroleum and Other Liquids No access
  2. The Impact of Increase US Gas Production No access
12. US OFFICIAL ESTIMATES OF ENERGY DEPENDENCE ON IMPORTS, THE IOR. MENA OIL, AND THEGULF No access
13. THE BROADER NATURE OF US STRATEGIC DEPENDENCE ON OIL IMPORTS No access
14. IF THE US FALTERS OR WITHDRAWS No access
15. 1. Strait of Hormuz and Pipeline Options No access
  2. Westward Flow Through the Sumed Pipeline and Suez Canal No access
  3. Eastern Flow Through the Strait of Malacca No access
  4. Other Trade Flows in the IOR No access
1. 1. The US and the Southern Gulf States No access
2. 1. The Gulf Military Balance and Iran’s Evolving Military Threat No access
  2. Iran’s Asymmetric Capabilities: The Al Quds Force No access
  3. The MISIRI, MOIS, or VEVAK No access
  4. Iran’s Capabilities for Asymmetric Warfare No access
  5. Iran’s Missile Forces No access
3. 1. Iraq’s Security and its Military Forces No access
4. 1. Yemeni Instability No access
  2. Yemen and Iran No access
  3. Yemen, the US, and Saudi Arabia No access
  4. The Emerging Role of AQAP No access
  5. Counterterrorism and Cooperation with the US No access
  6. An Unstable Bridge between the Gulf and the Red Sea No access
5. 1. Jordan’s Internal Stability No access
6. THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN ISSUE, SUNNI-SHI’ITE TENSIONS, AND CONFLICT WITHIN THE ISLAMICWORLD No access
1. Strategic Risk versus National Risk No access
2. EGYPTIAN SECURITY, STABILITY, THE SUEZ CANAL AND SUMED PIPELINE No access
3. 1. Somalia as A Center of Terrorism and Extremism No access
  2. Somalia and Piracy No access
4. DJIBOUTI: A KEY BASE FOR US AND FRENCH FORCES No access
5. 1. The Situation in Eritrea No access
  2. The Situation in Ethiopia No access
  3. A History of Tension and Border Issues No access
6. SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN No access
7. STABILITY AND SECURITY IN THE RED SEA AND HORN SUBREGION No access
1. STABILITY AND SECURITY IN THE EAST AFRICA SUBREGION No access
2. KENYA No access
3. TANZANIA No access
4. COMOROS No access
5. MOZAMBIQUE No access
6. MADAGASCAR No access
7. MAURITIUS No access
8. 1. Economics, Demographics and Trade No access
  2. Security and Military Forces No access
9. STABILITY AND SECURITY IN THE EAST AFRICA SUBREGION No access
1. India-Pakistan Military Balance No access
2. Land and Air Balance No access
3. Pakistan’s Asymmetric Maritime Capabilities No access
VIII. SOUTHEAST ASIA - OCEANIA SUBREGION No access Pages 263 - 308
1. 1. US Central Command No access
  2. US Pacific Command (PACOM) No access
2. CHANGES IN US STRATEGY AND REBALANCING TO ASIA No access
3. 1. Chinese Naval Forces No access
  2. Chinese Activity at Sea No access
  3. The Chinese Air Force No access
4. US REACTION AND THE AIR SEA BATTLE No access
5. 1. The Nine-Dash Line No access
  2. Chinese Operations to Deal with the US Second Island Chain No access
6. 1. The Asian IOR States No access
  2. The Changing Limits to the Chinese role in the IOR No access
1. LABOR FORCE AS % OF POPULATION VERSUS UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AS A % OF LABOR No access
2. LABOR FORCE AS % OF POPULATION VERSUS LABOR MARKET EFFICIENCY: No access
3. CORRUPTION CONTROL RANK VERSUS CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RANK: No access
4. POLITICAL STABILITY & ABSENCE OF VIOLENCE, VERSUS WEF GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS INDEX: No access
5. EXTERNAL DEBT TO GDP VERSUS EXPORTS OF GOODS AND SERVICES % OF GDP No access