No, Man: It's an Island

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🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Islands have taken on a greater prominence when we talk about the risk of war, especially in Asia. In the Indo-Pacific, islands, reefs, and rocky outcroppings are increasingly an organizing principle for considering security issues. In this episode, Doyle Hodges hosts a conversation on the sidelines of the Bridging the Straits II conference held in Tokyo. Professor Michishita Narushige of the Japanese National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Professor Terry Roehrig of the US Naval War College, Darshana Baruah, a pre-doctoral researcher at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, and Dr. Euan Graham, Executive Director of La Trobe Asia, discuss how the unique nature of islands influences Asia-Pacific security, ranging from the security concerns of small island nations in the Indian Ocean to China's construction and militarization of artificial features in the South China Sea, to territorial disputes between Japan, South Korea, Russia, and China over the possession of small--often uninhabitable or marginally economically viable--islands.

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0:00.0	Konejiawa and welcome to a special episode of War on the Rocks.
0:16.2	I'm Doyle Hodges, executive editor of Texas National Security Review.
0:20.3	Our guests today are gathered to talk about the unique role of islands in the security structure in the endopacific region.
0:27.5	Islands are one of those features that we tend to take for granted.
0:30.5	We look at them on a map.
0:31.5	They populate these vast ocean regions that
0:34.1	constitute the maritime security space and yet we rarely interrogate what it is
0:39.2	that is unique, different, and important about the status of an island and how that affects international
0:45.1	relations.
0:46.1	I'm joined today by Dr. Narushke Michistup of the National Graduate Institute for Policy
0:51.9	Studies, Dr.
0:53.3	Ewing Graham of Littrobe University, Darshna Barua of the Sasqala Peace Foundation
0:58.5	and Carnegie Institute, and Dr. Terry Rarig of the Naval War College. And Darshna, I know that your research has engaged extensively with the question of violence and I was wondering if you would start us off by talking a little bit about what it is that is unique about an island from security perspective, from an international relations perspective, and how that plays into the region.
1:20.0	Interesting question, and like you mentioned, islands are something that we see on the map very often I've heard about it through his true history
1:28.8	strategically islands are from a naval point of view from maritime point of view it provides access it
1:34.4	extends your reach to a Navy to a country to be able to operate far away from
1:39.9	your shores traditionally in the wars it has been used as refielding stations
1:44.1	and bases and logistics facilities. Today beyond the concept of
1:49.1	beyond the usage of islands as as platforms that extends your reach and the Navy's ability to operate in
1:56.8	water is far away from your shores.
1:59.0	It also has, it plays a key role in maritime domain awareness.
2:02.8	As we are developing the different concepts
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