| Summary/Abstract |
The centre of gravity of global opportunities and challenges are shifting to the Indo-Pacific region from the Pacific-Atlantic. Explicitly identifying the region as a geostrategic priority for the US within the framework of the ‘pivot to Asia’ policy, the Obama administration shifted focus to the region across a wide range of issue areas. This policy may be viewed in the context of the burst of the myth of economic invincibility of the Western world in the aftermath of the global economic meltdown of 2008.
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