Dr. Frédéric Grare is Senior Research Fellow at the National Security College in Canberra, Associate Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His last two books were: India Turns East: International Engagement and US-China Rivalry (2017) and The Indian Ocean as a New Political and Security Region, co-written with Jean-Loup Samaan, (2022).