Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Emerging Security Issues in the Indian Ocean: An American Perspective -- Origins of External Interest in the Indian Ocean -- Southwest Asia and American Strategy in the Indian Ocean -- Missions of the Soviet Navy in the Indian Ocean -- Expansion of Littoral Navies -- A Superpower "Rivalry"? -- 2. Emerging Security Issues in the Indian Ocean: An Indian Perspective -- The United States -- The Soviet Union -- India -- Other Powers -- Moscow, Washington, and Indian Ocean Arms Control -- 3. Emerging Economic Issues in the Indian Ocean: An American Perspective -- The 200-Mile Exclusive Economic Zone -- The Deep-Seabed Mining of Nodules -- The Antarctic Treaty -- Redesigning the "Common Heritage" Concept -- 4. Emerging Economic Issues in the Indian Ocean: An Indian Perspective -- The Future in the Oceans -- Conflict Over Ocean Resources -- Seapower, Resources, and Strategy in the Indian Ocean -- Oil, the Gulf, and U.S. Security -- The Mythology of Strategic Minerals -- Non-Living Resources in the Region -- Living Resources in the Region -- Antarctic Issues -- India's Ocean Policy and the United States -- 5. Arms Limitation in the Indian Ocean: Retrospect and Prospect -- India and the Zone of Peace -- Why the 1977-78 Negotiations Failed -- The Prospects for Indian Ocean Arms Control -- 6. India, the United States, and Superpower Rivalry in the Indian Ocean -- The Politics of Bases in the Indian Ocean -- India, the Soviet Union, and the United States -- Afghanistan: After the Soviet Withdrawal -- Avenues to Détente in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf -- Appendix: Conclusion and Recommendations of the Indo-American Task Force on the Indian Ocean -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.