Steven Sikiewicz

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New Books in Pacific Studies · Joanna Siekiera, "International Law and Security in Indo-Pacific: Strategic Design for the Region" (Routledge, 2025) · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

International relations as a field is usually centered around power, power understood like in the hard sense, as we usually call it, you know, military power and political power.

But you throughout the book, you talk about multidimensional competition and cooperation, right?

Now, we actually have touched on different aspects of this to the point that you could potentially be, as we say in English or American slang, frenemies between... Frenemies, correct.

Frenemies between India and China to the point that they cooperate on some levels, but then at the same time, they're throwing, you know, stones through each other's windows.

Yeah, what you were talking about with cooperation and competition at the same time reminded me of this one book that was written 10 years ago, Noah Feldman, where he talked about not a Cold War between the United States and China, but a cool war where in some ways we're competing, but also at the same time we need each other.

You know, China needs the United States economically and then vice versa.

So it's so it's kind of interesting that.

that dynamic here where you have almost two, what you would normally think as mutually exclusive dynamics, but yet at the same time, they're happening at the same time.

So I think it's just, it kind of just adds a nice, it's an interesting nuance to the picture, I would say.

Now you've been,

We've been talking about – you're an international lawyer, so you deal with international law across the globe.

So what role has international law have in the Indo-Pacific?

Now, you did talk a little bit about this, like how some of the cultures or some of the states in the region, they have a little bit of a –

Different understanding of that concept or sometimes even trouble understanding that concept.

Can you expand on this?

Yeah, this reminds me of a story I heard with some researchers in Complexity.

But they were talking about an incident.

It was in Africa where they were dealing with... This one village was dealing with polluted water.

So, of course, a lot of these Western experts, they were coming in there and they were trying to clean up the water.

But then...

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