Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative
AMTI aims to promote transparency in the Indo-Pacific to dissuade assertive behavior and conflict and generate opportunities for cooperation and confidence building
The maritime environment in East Asia contains both promise and peril. The Indo-Pacific region is host to some of the world’s most important shipping lanes, facilitates huge volumes of regional trade, and boasts abundant natural resources. Competing territorial claims, incidents between neighboring countries, and increasing militarization, however, raise the possibility that an isolated event at sea could become a geopolitical catastrophe. This is all occurring against a backdrop of relative opaqueness. Geography makes it difficult to monitor events as they occur, and there is no public, reliable authority for information on maritime developments.
The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative seeks to change this. AMTI was conceived of and designed by CSIS. It is an interactive, regularly-updated source for information, analysis, and policy exchange on maritime security issues in Asia. AMTI aims to promote transparency in the Indo-Pacific to dissuade assertive behavior and conflict and generate opportunities for cooperation and confidence building. Because AMTI aims to provide an objective platform for exchange, AMTI and CSIS take no position on territorial or maritime claims.
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China’s Maritime Silk Road: Strategic and Economic Implications for the Indo-Pacific Region
Event — April 12, 2018
China’s Maritime Silk Road: Strategic and Economic Implications for the Indo-Pacific Region
Report by Michael J. Green — April 2, 2018
Asia Forecast 2018
Event — January 24, 2018
The Doklam Standoff and Lessons for Maritime Asia, with Zack Cooper and Sarah Watson
Podcast Episode by Gregory B. Poling — September 6, 2017
Asia Pacific Forecast 2015
Event — January 29, 2015