Abstracts
Abstract
The Indo-Pacific concept grew out of a movement to refocus and redefine the Asia-Pacific region to include the Indian Ocean and South Asia, largely as a result of China’s rise. Over the past 10 years, an increasing number of Indo-Pacific strategies have been officially released in the region and beyond. The first question this article tackles is the following: What are the key drivers behind the rise of Indo-Pacific strategies? We argue that Indo-Pacific strategies have become a fast-moving experimenting space for countries searching for adjustment strategies to at least two concurrent deep trends in a changing global order: the great recent shift in the balance of power most vividly characterized by an increasingly assertive China, and the peaking of the liberal globalization experiment and the return of economic security to the fore. We are also concerned with the comparative angle to this question. In particular, how do Indo-Pacific strategies vary among key countries? And finally, how does the Canadian strategy fit within the broader landscape of Indo-Pacific strategies? In answer to these questions, the article develops a typology of existing Indo-Pacific strategies and how they each insert themselves in the current transitionary stage. Finally, we turn to Canada’s own Indo-Pacific strategy and its key features and drivers, including a discussion of Canada’s approach vis-à-vis China. We argue that this represents a touchstone in how Canada is responding to great power shifts and the erosion of the liberal international order.
Keywords:
- Indo-Pacific,
- strategy,
- power transition,
- economic security,
- Canada,
- China,
- Japan
Résumé
Le concept indo-pacifique est né d'un mouvement qui visait à recentrer et redéfinir la région Asie-Pacifique afin d'y inclure l'océan Indien et l'Asie du Sud, en grande partie en raison de la montée en puissance de la Chine. Au cours des dix dernières années, un nombre croissant de stratégies indo-pacifiques ont été officiellement publiées dans la région et au-delà. La première question abordée dans cet article est la suivante : Quels sont les principaux facteurs à l’origine de l'essor des stratégies indo-pacifiques ? Nous soutenons que les stratégies indo-pacifiques sont devenues un espace d'expérimentation en rapide évolution pour les pays à la recherche de stratégies d'ajustement à au moins deux tendances profondes simultanées dans un ordre mondial en mutation : la grande transformation dans l'équilibre des pouvoirs à l’échelle mondiale, caractérisée par une Chine de plus en plus affirmée, et la fin de l'expérience de la mondialisation libérale et le retour de la sécurité économique. Nous nous intéressons également à l'aspect comparatif de cette question. En particulier, comment les stratégies indo-pacifiques varient-elles d'un pays à l'autre ? Enfin, comment la stratégie canadienne s'inscrit-elle dans le paysage plus large des stratégies indo-pacifiques ? En réponse à ces questions, l'article élabore une typologie des stratégies indo-pacifiques existantes et explique comment chacune d'entre elles s'insère dans la phase de transition actuelle. Enfin, nous nous penchons sur la stratégie indo-pacifique du Canada et ses principales caractéristiques, y compris une discussion sur l'approche du Canada vis-à-vis de la Chine. Nous soutenons que cette stratégie représente l'une des pierres angulaires de la réaction du Canada au rééquilibrage mondial des grandes puissances et à l'érosion de l'ordre international libéral.
Mots-clés :
- Indo-Pacifique,
- stratégie,
- rééquilibrage mondial,
- sécurité économique,
- Canada,
- Chine,
- Japon
Appendices
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