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Abhijit Singh is a senior fellow and head of the Maritime Policy Initiative at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in New Delhi. A former Indian naval officer, he has written extensively on security issues in maritime Asia, including. He is author and co-editor of two books on maritime security: Indian Ocean Challenges: A Quest for Cooperative Solutions (2013) and Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific (2014).

A Marine Ecological Crisis in South Asia

By Abhijit Singh | August 16, 2018 | Categories: AMTI Update
South Asian states must come to terms with the fact that the seas’ ability to absorb anthropogenic activities is at an end.

Codes of Conduct and Geopolitical Gameplay

By Abhijit Singh | April 30, 2018 | Categories: AMTI Update
Sri Lanka's proposed code of conduct for the Indian Ocean presents problems at many levels, but perhaps the deepest problem is that it is about regional geopolitics rather than human security threats.

A Looming Environmental Crisis in the South China Sea

By Abhijit Singh | August 12, 2016 | Categories: Environment, South China Sea
Of all the “strategic” challenges confronting the Asia-Pacific region, none is as underrated as the destruction of the marine ecosystem. The South China Sea’s status as a critical waterway draws attention away from the fact that littoral Southeast Asia is one of the world’s most diverse global marine bio-systems, hosting 76 percent of the world’s […]

India’s “Undersea Wall” in the Eastern Indian Ocean

By Abhijit Singh | June 15, 2016 | Categories: India, Indian Ocean
Surveillance technology could be leveraged to protect India’s exclusive economic zone

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