A Rising Tide: The Growing Nuclearisation of the Indian Ocean

"This dissertation examines why the Indian Ocean is becoming, increasingly, the locus of nuclear weapons and platforms. It establishes a nexus between Realism, the desire of states to maximise their power, the role of nuclear weapons in that quest, Seapower, and the importance of the Indian Oc...

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Main Author: Hughes, Lindsay
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2021
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86667
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description "This dissertation examines why the Indian Ocean is becoming, increasingly, the locus of nuclear weapons and platforms. It establishes a nexus between Realism, the desire of states to maximise their power, the role of nuclear weapons in that quest, Seapower, and the importance of the Indian Ocean to the US, China, Pakistan and India. It demonstrates that the Indian Ocean is becoming nuclearised because of the confluence of its growing strategic importance and that nexus."
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-866672021-12-02T01:27:24Z A Rising Tide: The Growing Nuclearisation of the Indian Ocean Hughes, Lindsay "This dissertation examines why the Indian Ocean is becoming, increasingly, the locus of nuclear weapons and platforms. It establishes a nexus between Realism, the desire of states to maximise their power, the role of nuclear weapons in that quest, Seapower, and the importance of the Indian Ocean to the US, China, Pakistan and India. It demonstrates that the Indian Ocean is becoming nuclearised because of the confluence of its growing strategic importance and that nexus." 2021 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86667 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Hughes, Lindsay
A Rising Tide: The Growing Nuclearisation of the Indian Ocean
title A Rising Tide: The Growing Nuclearisation of the Indian Ocean
title_full A Rising Tide: The Growing Nuclearisation of the Indian Ocean
title_fullStr A Rising Tide: The Growing Nuclearisation of the Indian Ocean
title_full_unstemmed A Rising Tide: The Growing Nuclearisation of the Indian Ocean
title_short A Rising Tide: The Growing Nuclearisation of the Indian Ocean
title_sort rising tide: the growing nuclearisation of the indian ocean
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86667