Recognizing Threats, Constructing Threats: The Extension of the U.S.–India Ocean Strategy

　　ABSTRACT: In the face of a broadening range of ever increasing non-traditional security threats, global and regional powers have not allocated greater resources towards security cooperation, but have responded by countering threats with threats or by constructing new threats. Such a context of expanding strategic suspicions and containment has gradually caused the regional arms race and strategic competition to become the greatest threats to the region. To successfully eliminate threats, states must build strategic objectives which enhance capacity to identify mutually beneficial solutions and share risks, and not strategies which are based on threats and deterrence. Only in this way can the East Indian Ocean remain stable and the world peaceful.