The Global Maritime Partnership and the Aegis Global Enterprise: Australia at the Crossroads of the 'Maritime Century'

摘要

The nexus of world power is shifting decidedly to the Asia-Pacific region and Indo-Pacific Ocean, Robert Kaplan explains in Monsoon. "The Greater Indian Ocean," he writes, "stretching eastward from the Horn of Africa past the Arabian Peninsula, the Iranian plateau, and the Indian Subcontinent, all the way to the Indonesian archipelago and beyond, may comprise a map as iconic to the new century as Europe was to the last one."1 Its shores washed by both oceans, Australia in 2011 is poised to be a critical player - some would say the critical player - in the security and prosperity of the entire Indo-Asia region. And, as Australians know, thp nrpans — not fhp land — Hpfinp