(Note for Jacket--see Marketing File-so/10/26]The vast, politically turbulent region encompassing the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, forty-two littoral states,

This study focuses on the political and strategic implications of the presence in the Indian Ocean of the United States and the Soviet Union. The author examine

China and India are emerging as major maritime powers as part of long-term shifts in the regional balance of power. As their wealth, interests, and power grow,

On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the

The paper focuses on the interaction between the presence of the superpowers in the Indian Ocean and the regional conflicts which have caused concern in the las