title: Like-mindedness: How the West shapes the geostrategic landscape in the Indo-Pacific
abstract: In the past few years, the Indo-Pacific region has emerged as a pivotal geostrategic arena against the backdrop of China's growing power and influence. As the United States and other Western countries have deepened their own strategic engagement in the region, IR scholars and regional experts have focused on the shifting security architecture, the formation of new economic free trade blocs, competing infrastructural investment agendas and the rapidly expanding technological decoupling agenda. Wh
journal: Econstor (Econstor)