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The transition from Asia-pacific to Indo-pacific: a significant geopolitical transformation in the 21st century
Arnab Kayal
Received: September 25, 2025 | Published: November 18, 2025
Citation: Kayal A. The transition from Asia-pacific to Indo-pacific: a significant geopolitical transformation in the 21st century. J His Arch & Anthropol Sci. 2025;10(2):79‒85. DOI: 10.15406/jhaas.2025.10.00329
Abstract
In the post-Cold War era, international politics, especially the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific region, have undergone unprecedented changes. For several years after the fall of the Soviet Union, very naturally the US had established its dominance as the sole controlling power in the international world. However, since the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century, several Fast-growing economy, including China, India have begun to challenge this dominance of the US by advocating multilateralism. However, China’s expansionist foreign policy in Asia (e.g., its claim to sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, military conflicts with various neighboring countries along its borders, etc.) has become a cause for a headache for India., Japan, and ASEAN countries. In response to this growing hegemony of China, several countries including the India, US, and Japan have now given rise to a new geopolitical concept of the Indo-Pacific region instead of the Asia-Pacific concept. In this context, the Indo-Pacific region has now become a region of geopolitical tension, where countries such as the US, Japan, Australia, India, etc. have come together to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific to counter the growing influence of China. This paper highlights the political changes in the Asia-Pacific region and the construction and significance of the Indo-Pacific region. In addition, this paper has attempted to paint a clearer picture of the Indo-Pacific region by discussing the perspectives of different countries on the Indo-Pacific region.
Keywords: cold war, asia-pacific, indo-pacific, geopolitics, network-zone, maritimesecurity
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