Indo-Pacific Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. the only conflict in Mackinder's framework
  2. 7. critical to the success of Japan’s export-led development model
  3. 9. argued by Spykman to be the primary engine of power in world politics
  4. 11. Spykman's prerequisite for the preservation of the power position of the US
  5. 14. argued that overwhelming sea power is enough for a great maritime power
  6. 15. a rising rimland power
  7. 17. one of China's core interests
Down
  1. 2. credited for conceptualizing the free and open Indo-Pacific
  2. 3. its purpose, as argued by the Chinese, is to promote common development rather than to seek power
  3. 4. illustrates Spykman's rimland theory
  4. 5. illustrated by the high seas that belong to no one state and provide access to much of the globe
  5. 6. illustrates Mahan's sea power theory
  6. 8. Mackinder's heartland
  7. 10. proposed the idea of a circumferential power
  8. 12. region whose geography is politicized by the world's principal powers
  9. 13. a framework for the study of balance of power
  10. 16. constellation of ports and other facilities across the Indian Ocean that are accessible to China