Politics of Global Ocean Regions

Christian Bueger is Professor of International Relations in the Political Science Department at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Elizabeth Mendenhall is Associate Professor of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. She received her Ph.D. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University in 2017.Rebecca Strating is Director of La Trobe Asia and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University, Melbourne

• 1 – Introduction: Understanding Global Ocean Regions.- 2 -- The Limits of Marine Regionalism in Global Ocean Governance: the UNEP Regional Seas Program.- 3 -- Pragmatic spaces and the contestation over the Western Indian Ocean.- 4 -- The Blue Pacific Ocean Region.- 5 -- The Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace?.- 6 -- The Indo-Pacific: A maritime crossroads where the Euro-Atlantic ‘West’ and the Asia-Pacific ‘East’ meet, and world order is transformed.- 7 -- Bridging the Governance Gap in the South Atlantic Ocean.- 8 -- The Arctic (Ocean) Region: Emergence, Organisation, Effects and Unravelling?.- 9 -- The Southern Ocean: Constructing a New Global Ocean Region.