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100	1		_aPAUL Joshy M.
245			_aIndia-Japan maritime security cooperation: _bsecondary states' soft balancing in the Indo-Pacific/ _cJoshy M. Paul
260			_a2019
520			_aIndia-Japan security cooperation is a critical component in the evolving security mechanism of the Indo-Pacific region. Both states are secondary states in the international system that opposes one country's emergence as a regional hegemon. China's rise and her ambition to dominate the Indo-Pacific would affect the security interests of India and Japan. The U.S., the current preponderant power in the region, seems unable to contain China by itself. So it is looking for strategic partnerships with regional countries who are militarily capable of challenging China, and persuading them to balance China. In this regard, the two powerful states in China's own backyard - Japan in the western Pacific and India in the Indian Ocean - have come together to counter the Chinese hegemony in the Indo-Pacific. In this effort, they have gradually built up naval cooperation sans a formal military alliance. They follow soft balancing strategies over hard balancing ones because neither wants to antagonise China. Similarly both countries seek to expand their presence through mutual cooperation beyond South-east Asia. This article explains the nature and context of soft power balancing strategies and the manner in which the India-Japan maritime security cooperation has evolved over the last two decades.
650			_aINDO-PACIFIC
650			_aMARITIME SECURITY
650			_aINDIA AND JAPAN
650			_aSOFT BALANCING
773			_aMaritime Affairs: _gJournal of the National Maritime Foundation of India : _gVol 15, No. 2, 2019, pp. 59-77
598			_aMARITIME, SECURITY, INDIA, JAPAN, SEASIA, INDO-PAC
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09733159.2019.1710384 _zClick here for full text
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