Security of Sea Lines: Prospects for India–Japan Cooperation
Security of Sea Lines: Prospects for India–Japan Cooperation
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海上安全：印日合作的前景
DOI：
10.1080/09700160701355485
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发表时间：
2007
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0.9
通讯作者：
G. Khurana
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作者：
G. Khurana
确保获得原油和天然气是印度安全计算的重要组成部分。它还着重强调了海洋运输的重要性，其中许多重要资源是通过海洋运输进行贸易的。由于印度在陆地交通方面几乎与世隔绝，其贸易利益越来越集中在海洋领域。与此同时，中国在海上航线安全方面的重大利益正开始与亚洲经济强国日本的利益趋同。日本是一个岛国，不仅在能源进口方面，而且在食品和其他重要资源供应方面，都严重依赖太平洋和印度洋的“海上生命线”。随着印度经济的增长，两国之间的战略一致性可能会加强，原因有两个：第一，亚洲经济一体化的不断发展，第二，印度和日本在战略商品潜在来源的全球分布中的地理位置。
Abstract Ensuring access to crude oil and natural gas forms a crucial component of India's security calculus. It also critically underlines the significance of sea transportation through which much of these vital resources are traded. With India virtually insular in terms of its land communications, its trade interests are increasingly focused on the maritime domain. Its vital interests in the security of sea routes at the same time are beginning to converge with those of Japan, the economic powerhouse of Asia, which being an island state is critically dependent on Pacific and Indian Ocean ‘maritime lifelines’ not only for its energy imports but also for much of its food and other vital resource supplies. As the Indian economy grows, the strategic congruence between the two states is likely to strengthen because of two factors; first, the growing Asian economic integration, and second, the geographic locations of India and Japan vis-à-vis the global distribution of potential sources of strategic commodities.