[3] as well as being outgoing Foundation Chair of the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG)[citation needed].
For example, he was appointed as Australia’s focal point to the Indian Ocean Rim Academic Group (IORAG) in December 2010 and became Vice-Chair of the IORAG at the IOR-ARC meeting in Bangalore in November 2011 for a period of two years[citation needed].
His book The Rise and Return of the Indo-Pacific (co-authored with Timothy Doyle) was published by Oxford University Press in 2020.
[1] Another reviewer calls the book "a highly successful attempt to distill the essence of past and present cultural narratives, geopolitical concepts, and the role of various states and actors of a “region” (broadly speaking)".
[4] Rumley sees the Indo-Pacific as becoming increasingly important in global politics due to the "shift to a new bipolar world — [dominated by] the US and China".