A Monsoon Instead of a Gentle Breeze: Creeping Nuclearization in the Asia-Pacific

... plateau skirmish. Threshold States: Towards a Nuclear Horizon On the other hand, certain individual mid-level powers in the Asia-Pacific region also show certain behavioral similarities. The emergence of the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” with its accompanying ideologemes (such as “rules-based order”) did not coincidentally coincide with a shift ... ... 2022, the newly elected government easily reconciled with the submarine deal, in spite of their preceding vows to sign the TPNW. Returning to AUKUS, it indeed sets a precedent for a NNWS to acquire a sensitive nuclear-propulsion technology that is ...