The Aggregation of the"Indo-Paciflc"Maritime Super Security Complex
Recently,the South China Sea issue has become a hot topic around the world against the backdrop of"the Indo-Pacific Strategy".This phenomenon has triggered wide-spread concern of major actors in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean,Southeast Asia,Northeast Asia and South Asia,with sovereignty and navigation as the key areas,in which the United States and some other global powers are playing increasingly important roles,making the regional security situation more and more complicated.Based on logical deduc-tion of the theory of regional security complex,the author argues that this phenomenon shows that a maritime super security complex has initially taken shape,with the South China Sea as its core and the"Indo-Pacific"region as its extension.There are two core ex-planatory variables.The first one is the expectation of power relations.and the second is the geopolitical imagination of various countries.This paper reveals that the more different the former becomes,as well as the more consistent the latter shows,the more likely the re-gional security issues are to extend across regions.This situation spirals and twists.with the trend of intensified competition among major powers,and reflects the upgrading of security interactions within all parties in a specific region to the global level,as well as a case of world powers deeply involved in regional security issues.There are three representative is-sues that promote the initial formation of this maritime super security complex,namely the expansion of sovereignty issue,the politicization of navigation issue and the realization of the"Indo-Pacific"issue.
the South China Sea issue"the Indo-Pacific Strategy"maritime super se-curity complexinternational securitymajor power competition
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