Year: 2026 Language: English Author: Samuel Bashfield Genre: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781009651110 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 94 Description: How and why are key Indo-Pacific states adapting respective foreign and defence policies to secure submarine cable networks amid heightened Sino-US network-based competition? States are driven to control submarine cable networks as these infrastructures transmit information between continents and islands, traverse vulnerable maritime zones, and constrict data through limited chokepoints. China's Digital Silk Road has challenged Western submarine cable dominance, prompting a suite of countermeasures by Western states individually and in coalition. This Element posits a nodes-flows-production typology to illustrate how states are attempting to control connectivity nodes, secure transmission flows and dominate production. The analysis highlights how states are pursuing central network positions to mitigate vulnerability – but this structural competition risks enabling weaponisation. This microcosm of network-based competition reveals how the contest to control submarine cable infrastructure is defining contemporary great power rivalry and re-wiring the Indo-Pacific's arteries. Additional info: About the author: Samuel Bashfield is a Senior Research Officer at NSC and a defence researcher at the Australia India Institute. He is also a non-residential fellow at the Royal Australian Navy's Sea Power Centre.
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Submarine Cables
Language: English
Author: Samuel Bashfield
Genre: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009651110
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 94
Description: How and why are key Indo-Pacific states adapting respective foreign and defence policies to secure submarine cable networks amid heightened Sino-US network-based competition? States are driven to control submarine cable networks as these infrastructures transmit information between continents and islands, traverse vulnerable maritime zones, and constrict data through limited chokepoints. China's Digital Silk Road has challenged Western submarine cable dominance, prompting a suite of countermeasures by Western states individually and in coalition. This Element posits a nodes-flows-production typology to illustrate how states are attempting to control connectivity nodes, secure transmission flows and dominate production. The analysis highlights how states are pursuing central network positions to mitigate vulnerability – but this structural competition risks enabling weaponisation. This microcosm of network-based competition reveals how the contest to control submarine cable infrastructure is defining contemporary great power rivalry and re-wiring the Indo-Pacific's arteries.
Additional info: About the author:
Samuel Bashfield is a Senior Research Officer at NSC and a defence researcher at the Australia India Institute. He is also a non-residential fellow at the Royal Australian Navy's Sea Power Centre.
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