The Indo-Pacific is an idea more than a region – and it’s pushing politics in a ‘pessimistic and paranoid’ direction
- Written by Nicholas Ross Smith, Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury
Getty ImagesOver the past decade, the idea of an important geopolitical space called the “Indo-Pacific” has become integral to the grand strategising of countries inside and outside this vast geographical area.
The term is not new, however. Australia – one of a few truly Indo-Pacific countries – used it during the 1970s to...
