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Description edit
On the world maps common in America, the Indian Ocean all but disappears. The Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region is relegated to the edges, split up along the maps’ outer reaches. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Clive: Add a description of this character.
- Gwadar
- Sindh
- Indira Gandhi
- Kolkata
- Suharto
- Qabus
- Berke
- Muslim
- Zheng
- Karen
- Da Gama
- George W. Bush
- Muhammadiyah
- Jinnah
- Gujaratis
- Burman
- Macaulay
- Prabakharan
- Heinemann
- Henry
- Curzon
- Gus Dur
- Shah Jahan
- Dhofar
- Shan
- Geertz
- Mahmud
- Alan Villiers
- Toshi Yoshihara
- Hambantota
Setting & Locations edit
- Indian Ocean
- China
- Pakistan
- Indonesia
- Islam
- Oman
- Bangladesh
- United States
- Sri Lanka
- Bay Of Bengal
- Middle East
- America
- Afghanistan
- Iraq
- East Africa
- Iran
- Zanzibar
- Southeast Asia
- Karachi
- Pacific
- Singapore
- Malaysia
- Baluchistan
- Saudi Arabia
- Strait Of Malacca
- Calcutta
- Europe
- Japan
- Central Asia
- Somalia
- Beijing
- Thailand
- New Delhi
- Yemen
- Persian Gulf
- Portugal
- Dubai
- Aceh
- Jakarta
- Ceylon
- Taiwan
- Egypt
First Sentence edit
Al Bahr al Hindi is what the Arabs called the ocean in their old navigational treatises.
Table of Contents edit
Preface: The Rimland of Eurasia
PART I
1. China Expands Vertically, India Horizontally
PART II
2. Oman Is Everywhere
3. Curzon's Frontiers
4. "Lands of India"
5. Baluchistan and Sindh
6. The Troubled Rise of Gujarat
7. The View from Delhi
8. Bangladesh: The Existential Challenge
9. Kolkata: The Next Global City
10. Of Strategy and Beauty
11. Sri Lanka: The New Geopolitics
12. Burma: Where India and China Collide
13. Indonesia's Tropical Islam
14. The Heart of Maritime Asia
PART III
15. China's Two-Ocean Strategy
16. Unity and Anarchy
17. Zanzibar: The Last Frontier
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Notes
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert D. Kaplan (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6746-6
Page Count: 367
Publisher: Random House
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6746-6
Page Count: 367
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: DS341.2.U6K374 2010
- Dewey: 327.7301824
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › International › Relations
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