Beyond the Bri: Can India, Japan and the Us Provide an Alternative Model of Connectivity?

The Indo-Pacific has now emerged as a major area of collaboration between India, Japan and the United States (US). It was in 2018 that the US renamed its Pacific Command as the Indo-Pacific Command. The US and Japan have already been working together on the Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative ’led by major democracies to help narrow the ＄40+ trillion infrastructure need in the developing world’. In addition, the United States and Japan share a vision of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific while India has an ’Act-East Policy, ’ and all these meet in the Indo-Pacific. This book will analyse whether India, US and Japan can provide an alternate model of connectivity and infrastructure development in the Indo-Pacific since all the three countries have not joined the China-led BRI.