India's Multidimensional Endeavors for Building an Exclusive Maritime Defense System
Establishing and maintaining dominance in the Indian Ocean is the long-term policy pursuit of India.In order to better achieve its goals,India has taken the lead in building 6 maritime security regimes in the Indian Ocean as the basis of its system.It strives to create a closed defense system led by it in the Indian Ocean,become the rule maker and enforcer,and use the current favorable international environment and the Red Sea crisis after the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to enhance its military capabilities as the"policeman"of the Indian Ocean and its ability to deny access of other countries by using rules and international regime.The closed Indian Ocean defense regimes are the results of the escalation of India's regional hegemonyand the compromise of the United States and India's"Indo-Pacific Strategy,"they both serve the global hegemony of the US regional hegemony of India.The regimes do not lead to the increase of public goods in terms of security,but lead to the deterioration of small and medium countries in this region and intensifying arms race.The closed defense regime does not generate shared security and will fail eventually.