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.
