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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2021
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| author | Hughes, Lindsay |
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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 |