Strategic Triangles: Contours of the Emergent Indo-Pacific Insecurity Architecture

Abstract

The epilogue summarises the study’s findings, inferring provisional conclusions on the nature of the systemic transition currently redrawing the contours of Indo-Pacific insecurity. The aim is to glean the substantive context in which practicable policy options for peacefully managing strategic uncertainty at both systemic and sub-systemic levels can be fashioned. This requires analyses of the case-studies to infer the roles played by both primary and secondary actors in shaping competitive dynamics and patron-client policy-perceptions, garnering empirically-derived conclusions that, hopefully, generate policy options with which to address the most acutely urgent combustible threats of conflict afflicting the contested Indo-Pacific. The way forward towards collaboratively shaping an evolutionary new security architecture founded on a consensually derived equilibrium will be arduous, if not unrealistic; but alternatives to such an enterprise being possibly catastrophic for all parties, mutually adaptive accommodation appears to offer one probable path to predictability.