Securing the Seas, Securing the State: The Inside/Outside of ‘Indo-Pacific’ Geopolitics

Organiser: European University Institute Dr. Christian Wirth (Speaker)

Safeguarding the “Rules-based Order”? Europe Navigates the Shallow Waters of the Indo-Pacific, Online event Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Dr. Christian Wirth (Moderator)

Organiser: Die Vertretung des Landes Hessen bei der Europäischen Union Dr. Christian Wirth (Speaker)

Impulsreferat zu einer Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Crisis Talks Reihe in Kooperation mit dem Leibniz-Forschungsverbund "Krisen einer globalisierten Welt" und dem Forschungsverbund "Normative Ordnungen - Goethe Universität Frankfurt"

The Pacific Islands Forum is facing its biggest crisis since its founding 50 years ago. Nearly one-third of its members are to leave the organization in 2022 because their candidate for secretary general was not elected in early 2021. Reforms may help to avert the "Micronexit", but challenges still abound for the Pacific’s premier regional body.

Policy makers have converged on the need to safeguard the “rules-based order” across the newly coined “Indo-Pacific” region. However, it is not clear, what exactly is to be preserved, and why the contested terms have rapidly found their way into policy debates. An analysis.

Organiser: Sciences Po - Paris Institute of Political Studies Dr. Christian Wirth (Speaker)

Presentation at the conference: The EU and the Indo-Pacific: what Strategy, with which Partners?

Recently, the European Union presented its strategy for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, which is not a coherent world region but a concept to respond to geopolitical and geo-economic dynamics linked to China’s rise. This GIGA Focus analyses the interests and concerns of the small powers in the Pacific.

Organiser: European University Institute Dr. Christian Wirth (Speaker)

Safeguarding the “Rules-based Order”? Europe Navigates the Shallow Waters of the Indo-Pacific, Online event Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Dr. Christian Wirth (Moderator)

Organiser: Die Vertretung des Landes Hessen bei der Europäischen Union Dr. Christian Wirth (Speaker)

Impulsreferat zu einer Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Crisis Talks Reihe in Kooperation mit dem Leibniz-Forschungsverbund "Krisen einer globalisierten Welt" und dem Forschungsverbund "Normative Ordnungen - Goethe Universität Frankfurt"