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Asia-Pacific : The New Nuclear Fault Line?
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posted on 2015-01-21, 15:17 authored by Benjamin P. ZalaIt is by now becoming increasingly clear that the Asia-Pacific region will
come to dominate the international relations of at
least the first half of the
Twenty First Century. Not only in the highly visible and often contentious
areas of economy and security, but also in areas such as health,
communication and environment, the states and peoples of the Asia-Pacific
are ever more finding themselves under the international spotlight.
For the middle sized states of the region such as Australia, the challenges to
both regional and international security created by
such a sudden and
forceful ascendency of the Asia-Pacific region will
most likely come to define
much of their foreign and defence policies in the coming decades. It follows
that these challenges should define future planning
and strategic thinking
now, and the security of the region is therefore receiving much attention from
academia, think-tanks, NGOs and government agencies
. Due to the
continuous North Korean crisis over the last few years, a renewed focus has
emerged on nuclear weapons and their associated delivery systems as the
spectre of a nuclear arms race in the Asia-Pacific
region has been raised,
particularly in comments in the media.
Whether this is a short-term prospect related to North Korea’s nuclear
brinkmanship (made particularly problematic by its
recent nuclear test) that is
likely to be circumvented by careful diplomacy, or
whether the Asia-Pacific
region really is set to become the new nuclear fault line of the twenty-first
century in the way Europe was for the duration of the Cold War, could be
central to understanding the security dynamics of the region in the
foreseeable future.
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Security Challenges, 2007, 3 (1), pp. 9-15Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE/Department of Politics and International RelationsPublished in
Security ChallengesPublisher
Kokoda Foundationissn
1833-1459Copyright date
2007Publisher version
http://www.securitychallenges.org.au/TOCs/vol3no1.htmlNotes
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