Europe rediscovers the Indo-Pacific

David, Frederic Camroux (1)

1 CERI - Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS)

The term ‘Indo-Pacific’ has now entered into the lexicon of the Brussels-linked foreign policy community. German strategic thinker General Karl Haushofer created the geographical denomination of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ in 1924. A century later, in October 2020, the German Foreign Ministry framed its Asia policy guidelines as directed towards the Indo-Pacific region. [First paragraph]

Keywords: foreign policy community; Indo-Pacific; Royal Australian Navy

Domains: Political science

David, Frederic Camroux. Europe rediscovers the Indo-Pacific. 2020. ⟨hal-03207345⟩