摘要：Robert D Kaplan contends that the Greater Indian Ocean, stretching eastward from the Horn of Africa including the Indian Subcontinent all the way to the Indonesian archipelago and beyond may comprise a map as iconic to the 21st century as Europe was to the previous one. With all the geopolitics in motion, he hoped that, this century would be less violent (relatively peaceful) [connotation mine] than the last one, but to a similar degree, it could have a recognizable geography. So today’s Greater Indian Ocean is Yesterday’s heartland. In this greater water stretch there lies a ganglia of global energy routes and quiet seemingly inexorable rise of developing Asian nations..
