This Strategic Update focuses on the geopolitical competition and challenges surrounding deep-seabed mining and submarine telecommunications cables, particularly in the context of the Indian Ocean Region.
Scramble for the Undersea
About The Author
Dr Amaia Sánchez-Cacicedo is Associate Fellow at LSE IDEAS and Senior Fellow (Non-resident), Asia Program, at Institut Montaigne. She is also Affiliated Faculty at IE University in Madrid. Prior to this, she was Non-Resident Associate Analyst in charge of the South Asia portfolio at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris.
She currently contributes to the analysis of Indian foreign and security policies with an emphasis on connectivity and maritime security developments across the Indian Ocean.
She is a graduate of Georgetown University and completed her PhD at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London, which culminated in her book Building States, Building Peace: Global and Regional Involvement in Sri Lanka and Myanmar (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Amaia has taught courses on security, as well as on the international relations of Asia at IE University, SOAS and the University of Zurich. She has also worked for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Costa Rica, Kenya and Sri Lanka.