CLAWS Indian Ocean Newsletter | 01-15 December 2025

The CLAWS Indian Ocean fortnightly provides a concise, region-wide snapshot of key political, security, humanitarian, climate, and maritime developments across South Asia and the wider Indian Ocean Region, integrating disaster impacts, strategic partnerships, and emerging security challenges. It covers Sri Lanka’s post-cyclone economic and climate-resilience trajectory alongside India’s humanitarian response, highlights Maldives’ evolving internal security and defence cooperation with India, and assesses broader regional trends such as resurgent piracy in the Somali Basin, intensifying IS-linked insurgency in Mozambique, and advances in maritime technology and deep-sea resource exploration. The newsletter also situates these developments within larger geopolitical and connectivity frameworks, including India–Russia multimodal trade corridors and India’s strategic deep ocean ambitions, offering policymakers and researchers a timely, analytical overview of how climate change, maritime security, regional cooperation, and great-power dynamics are reshaping stability and strategic competition in the Indian subcontinent and the Indian Ocean Region.