This article examines how the strategic imagination of the Pacific Rim is evolving by analysing competing and complementary regional frameworks—the Indo-Pacific, the Blue Pacific, and the Latin Pacific—and how they seek to define order across the world’s largest maritime space. While the Indo-Pacific narrative, driven by major powers, has become dominant, alternative concepts advanced by Pacific Island countries and Latin America foreground priorities such as sovereignty, sustainability, and developmental agency. By comparing these discourses, the article argues that the Pacific is shaped not only by great-power rivalry, but also by an expanding plurality of regional visions that reflect diverse identities, interests, and strategic ambitions.
Chan et al. (Fri,) studied this question.