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Navigating Maritime Security Cooperation in the Indian Ocean

This event focuses on exploring national perspectives and challenges for enhancing maritime security cooperation between the U.S. and India in the Indian Ocean region. Delegates examined actionable opportunities and priority areas for cooperation such as coastal law enforcement, environmental stewardship, and regional capacity-building. Key constraints such as regional partnerships, bureaucratic hurdles, and strategic ambiguities were also identified. Academic insights emphasized the need for understanding India's self-assessed drivers and constraints, addressing bureaucracy for trust-building, and readiness for robust regional dialogues.

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Navigating Maritime Security Cooperation in the Indian Ocean

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  1. Objectives • Increased appreciation of the centrality of the Indian Ocean to stability and prosperity • Exchanged best maritime security practices • Enhanced shared understanding of national/agency perspectives • Energized new US-India interagency networks

  2. Method • Explore national and agency-based perspectives of maritime security in the Indian Ocean • Identify and prioritize of opportunities and challenges for India-U.S. cooperation, to set the context for next steps

  3. Target Presentation of Findings: • What actionable opportunities can we identify from the big picture trends in the Indian Ocean? • What is the value of India-U.S. cooperation for each? • Which opportunities deliver the most value over the long-term?

  4. Delegates’ Findings Priority areas for bilateral cooperation: • Coastal law enforcement • Environmental Stewardship • Coordinated regional capacity-building Constraints identified: • Regional friends and partners (Pakistan; Iran) • Organizational stove-pipes and delays in information sharing • U.S. ambiguity regarding UNCLOS

  5. Academic Observations • Bilateral cooperation with India will continue to have limited strategic pay-off so long as it does not pay attention to India’s self-assessed drivers and constraints • Bureaucracy is sometimes used to cope with lack of trust and familiarity  • India is not ready for a robust regional conversation and will resist U.S. moves in the region until it is • U.S. strategic ambiguity is widely believed in India; sometimes fair, sometimes not

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