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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Международные отношения</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-0660</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-0679</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы» (РУДН)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23973</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-0660-2020-20-2-318-332</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THEMATIC DOSSIER</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ТЕМАТИЧЕСКОЕ ДОСЬЕ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">International Relations in the Great Indian Ocean through the Prism of Geopolitics and Geostrategy</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Международные отношения в Большом Индийском океане через призму концепций геополитики и геостратегии</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Lebedeva</surname><given-names>Nina Borisovna</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Лебедева</surname><given-names>Нина Борисовна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in History, Leading Researcher, Centre for Indian Studies</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат исторических наук, ведущий научный сотрудник Центра индийских исследований</p></bio><email>indology@inbox.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт востоковедения РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2020-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>20</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Contemporary Area Studies: Overcoming Level-of-Analysis Eclecticism</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Современное регионоведение: преодолевая эклектику уровней анализа</issue-title><fpage>318</fpage><lpage>332</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2020-06-15"><day>15</day><month>06</month><year>2020</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2020, Lebedeva N.B.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2020, Лебедева Н.Б.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2020</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Lebedeva N.B.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Лебедева Н.Б.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/23973">https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/23973</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article is devoted to an analysis of some concepts and geopolitical approaches towards the international relations in the Indian Ocean, later the Great Indian Ocean (GIO). It is the conceptual approaches that have given and give the opportunity to understand the system and structure of the IO region and to analyze the evolution, trends and practices in this system. In recent decades, the region has evolved from the mosaic of countries and the randomness of interstate relations in the first postcolonial years to a qualitatively different than before, expanded and central role in world politics and geostrategy due to new factors of the 21st century, many of which were somehow reflected in theoretical ideas of international relations (IO), proposed by Indian scholars. The article analyzes the correlation of approaches of Indian authors with Western approaches, reveals the features of Indian approaches in the context of the characteristics of the IR system of the Indian Ocean region, and identifies similarities with approaches of specialists from other Asian countries. The evolution of the concepts of Indian scientists has gone through three stages in its development. The first one is a postcolonial period till 1991, the end of bipolarity. The second is characterized by forming of the IO system under conditions of littoral states entrance in the IO scene and China intrusion in the Indian Ocean region. The essence of the third period is in transformation of the GIO IR system in force of the concept of uniting with the Asia-Pacific Region (APR) and forming Indo-Pacific megaregion.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Статья посвящена анализу некоторых концепций и геополитических подходов к системе международных отношений в Индийском океане, позже - в Большом Индийском океане (БИО). Именно концептуальные подходы давали и дают возможность понять систему и структуру региона, проанализировать эволюцию, тренды и практику в этой системе. В последние десятилетия регион эволюционировал от мозаичности стран и хаотичности межгосударственных связей в первые постколониальные годы до качественно иной, чем прежде, расширенной и центральной роли в мировой политике и геостратегии в силу новых факторов XXI в., многие из которых так или иначе находили отражение в теоретических идеях международных отношений (МО), предлагаемых индийскими учеными. В статье проанализировано соотношение подходов индийских авторов с западными подходами, выявлены особенности индийских подходов в контексте особенностей системы международных отношений Индоокеанского региона, а также определены сходства с подходами специалистов других азиатских стран. Эволюция региона и, как следствие, концепций индийских ученых прошла в своем развитии три этапа. Первый этап - это постколониальный период до 1991 г., года краха биполярной системы МО. Для второго этапа было характерно становление системы в условиях выхода прибрежных стран на ее авансцену и начало активного проникновения Китая в Индийский океан. Суть третьего этапа заключается в перестройке МО в БИО в силу концепции «объединения с АТР» и формирования Индо-Тихоокеанского мегарегиона (ИТР).</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Indian Ocean</kwd><kwd>Great Indian Ocean</kwd><kwd>geopolitics</kwd><kwd>geostrategy</kwd><kwd>theory of international relations</kwd><kwd>Indian School of IR</kwd><kwd>Asia-Pacific</kwd><kwd>Indo-Pacific</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Индийский океан</kwd><kwd>Большой Индийский океан</kwd><kwd>геополитика</kwd><kwd>геостратегия</kwd><kwd>теория международных отношений</kwd><kwd>индийская школа МО</kwd><kwd>АТР</kwd><kwd>ИТР</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Bajpaee, C. (2017). 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