"Persuasively makes the case that the 'Global Indian Ocean,' which has been a longstanding site for imperial projections, experiments in state-building, and unprecedented circulations of peoples, goods and ideas, is critical to understanding the historical and contemporary infrastructures of liberal world order. The essays illustrate that far from a North Atlantic project that extends out to the rest of the world, the liberal order was made and remade in the so called peripheries. This volume's method of tacking back and forth between the macro-region of the Indian Ocean and the global order is an exemplary model for the on-going effort to pluralize and globalize the field of international relations." --Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination "The 'Global Indian Ocean' is a crucible for defining twenty-first-century political trends. The depth of talent among the contributors to this volume is exactly what is needed to do justice to the complexity of the region itself, and to peer into possible futures." --Jason Sharman, Professor of International Relations, University of Cambridge "With contributions from some of the most knowledgeable observers of regional change, this book provides a helpful antidote to prevalent simplistic policy analysis, and paints a picture of the diverse forces operating in the countries and societies around the Indian Ocean." --Stefan Dercon, Professor of Economic Policy, University of Oxford "A fascinating overview of the Indian Ocean region and its role in international affairs. Given the increasing significance of the area, this should be on the reading list of anyone interested in Asia's global future." --Odd Arne Westad, Director of International Security Studies, Yale University "The authors reveal innovative ways of envisioning not only how the different political and economic forms in and across this macro-region were adapted as the illiberal ground of the liberal order, but also how these formations persist, evolve and challenge the liberal order." --Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Chair Professor of East Asian Studies, Duke University