Europe's Indo-Pacific Pivot

This open access book is the first book comprehensively analysing Europe’s engagement with the Indo-Pacific region, a significant development that remains markedly under-explored. Its novel comparative perspective favours a bird’s eye view of Europe’s unfolding “Indo-Pacific pivot”, supported by a relevant methodological and theoretical approach.
The book’s key findings are twofold: i) the first extensive account of Europe’s policies on the Indo-Pacific, comprising both the EU and Europe’s major, middle, and minor powers; and ii) a careful assessment of the resulting implications, including advantages and risks, commonalities and differences, and consequences for cross-regional cooperation.
Readers will benefit from a survey of both the history and future trajectories of Europe’s involvement with the Indo-Pacific, along with innovative accounts of how Europe is approaching this region. As a result, this book is meant for policymakers, diplomats, and international relations professionals, as well as journalists and students interested in the new European pivot to the Indo-Pacific.

Dr. Gabriele Abbondanza is Marie Curie Fellow (a EU position) at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain); Associate Researcher at the University of Sydney (USYD, Australia); and Associate Fellow at the Italian Institute of International Affairs (IAI, Italy). He specialises in the Indo-Pacific security landscape, Australian and Italian foreign and security policy; irregular migration governance; and middle power and great power theory.
Dr. Gorana Grgi- is a Senior Researcher with the Swiss and Euro-Atlantic Security team at the ETH Zürich’s Center for Security Studies. Dr Grgi- is also a Senior Lecturer at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Security Initiative of the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Her research interests include US and EU foreign policy, NATO, and the nexus between Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific security.