Contemporary Transnational Challenges: International Maritime Connectivities

(Size: 25x16.5cms.), The Indian Ocean is the third larges of the world's oceanic divisions. The world's earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, the Indian subcontinent, Persia and later in Southeast Asia all developed around the Indian Ocean. Today, its littorals and hinterland comprise more than fifty nation-states and two-thirds of the world's known reserves of strategic raw materials while an estimated 40 per cent of the world's offshore oil production comes form it. ISBN:9788187966951 236 Yr. of Pub.2008 Hard Bound