Sarma, Gitesh

Oceania: New openings - Foreign Affairs journal - 18(3-4), Jul-Dec, 2023: p.127-143

In a little over a decade, the quality of India’s engagement with the Oceania region comprising Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Island countries, has considerably transformed in positive ways. This transformation has its roots in the 1990s, when the USSR disintegrated, creating new spaces in which countries could pursue their national interests as well as such cross-cutting matters as climate change, disaster management, transboundary terrorism, trafficking in narcotizes, illegal migration, and nuclear non-proliferation. – Reproduced