Hope becomes Law: The Treaty on The Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in the Asia Pacific Region

Abstract

If the final, still distant objective of the TPNW is to move from prohibition of nuclear weapons to their elimination, then the key proximate goals are the full institutionalisation of the treaty regime together with its universalisation. Dialogue in the region faces a suite of issues and problems regarding movement of the treaty towards institutionalisation as a regime. All of these issues have regional dimensions. The effectiveness of regional dialogues about the TPNW in the Asia-Pacific will be affected by the following: • the nuclear ban treaty as rebellion against global nuclear hegemony; • decisions regarding proposals of basing dialogue about the TPNW on a claimed primacy of the Non-..