Britain’s sprawling colonial enterprise created a transcontinental geostrategic and geoeconomic system that connected India to Egypt to Britain via the Suez Canal. British colonialists coveted Egypt not only for its riches but also as the gateway to India, the crown jewel of the British Empire. By reshaping their bilateral relations, Cairo and New Delhi can seize the strategic opportunity to link the Indo-Abrahamic with the Indo-Pacific, thus realizing this envisioned West Asian system.Ĭairo and New Delhi share an intertwined history. Until now, the geographic vastness of Asia and the legacy of “divide-and-conquer” colonialism have kept the continent politically and economically fragmented. The rise of the Indo-Pacific as a coherent geoeconomic and geopolitical system coincides with the rise of what this author has previously termed the “ Indo-Abrahamic,” an emerging transregional order connecting India to West Asia and the eastern Mediterranean. Asia is undergoing a world-historical geopolitical transformation.
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