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As states seek to strengthen their national security and exercise political influence, cyber capabilities are rapidly becoming an instrument of state power. States have started integrating computer network operations in their military forces to defend against cyber intrusions and to align with capabilities of major allies. The increase in cyber skirmishes is more pronounced in Asia, where the highest number of interstate cyber incidents has been observed in the past fifteen years. Despite this predicament, there have been very limited interstate military conflicts in the region, which suggests that the use of cyber capabilities encourages less violence. In this context, this paper aims to explore the prospect of cyber capabilities being a preferred foreign policy instrument by states in the region. It contends that the heightened geopolitical tension in Asia makes cyber capabilities more strategic for interstate security interactions for three reasons. First, cyber capabilities are not violent: computers cannot cause direct physical damage. Second, cyber capabilities are stealthy: complex cyber intrusions are difficult to detect. Third, cyber capabilities are convenient: computers can be utilised to enable or disable military operations.
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The Indo-Pacific region stretches from the eastern Indian Ocean shores of Africa and West Asia to the littoral countries of the western Pacific. The region constitutes the ‘maritime underbelly’ of Asia, and is the fastest growing region in the world; and in a few decades, is likely to witness what may be referred to as ‘Renaissance 2.0’. The region is, therefore, ripe with enormous opportunities, not only for regional countries, but also for the rest of the global community. And yet, the region is beset with equally colossal security risks that emanate from inter alia the rise of China - that is not satisfied with ‘status quo’ in the global order including established international law and norms; strategic rivalries and the attendant security dilemma and arms race; issues of governance including maritime jurisdictions; the proliferation of malevolent non-state actors involved in maritime crimes and terrorism; and so on. The book is a collation of commentaries that analyse the trends with regard to the geopolitical and maritime security environment, along with the naval developments, in the Indo-Pacific in the past half-decade or so.
