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Indian Ocean Region: Regional Cooperation

This LibGuide is a resource for identifying books, articles, and primary source documents relating to the Indian Ocean region, and highlights, in particular, strategic considerations of key players, regional cooperative efforts and environmental issues.

Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

Conferences

Institutes and Think Tanks

Naval Exercises

IBSAMAR 2010 - 11 ships in India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise
India Launches Naval Exercise off Andamans 8 February 2010
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13-nation naval exercise: navies of Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the Philippines, New Zealand and Vietnam took part; Agence France-Presse,
Iranian Naval Exercises 'Designed To Show Military Might' Radio Free Europe; Radio Liberty, 5 May 2010
Maritime Multilateralism: China's Strategy for the Indian Ocean Vijay Sakhuja, China Brief, volume 9, issue 22, 4 November 2009
Russian, Indian Navies Complete INDRA-2009 Exercises RIA Novosti, 2 November 2009
US Navy Prepares to Participate in Exercise Malabar 2010 Navy NewsStand, 23 April 2010

Indian Ocean Naval Symposia (IONS)

Agreements/Treaties/MOUs

2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Australia-Indonesia: Agreement Establishing Seabed Boundaries
Case Concerning Sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore)
Charter of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation
Container Security Initiative
Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace
Declaration on South-East Asia as a Zone of Peace
Indian Ocean Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control
Megaports Initiative
Proliferation Security Initiative
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia International Legal Materials, vol. 44, 2005, p. 829
Singapore Statement on Enhancement of Safety, Security and Environmental Protection in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore UN Doc A/62/518, Annex (6 September 2007)
Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty)
U.S.- India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative – The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal
Zones of Peace Peter Macalister-Smith, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, article last updated July 2009