Arms Control in the Indo-Pacific Region: What Role for the Arms Trade Treaty? (Toda Peace Institute Policy Brief No. 203)

This Policy Brief provides a distillation of a recent Small Arms Survey report that examines the Arms Trade Treaty in relation to the Indo-Pacific region. The report focuses on the different attitudes of states in the Indo-Pacific region toward the Treaty: it explores how armament dynamics in this region shape states’ perceptions when defining their own security requirements and attitudes toward an instrument that aims to regulate the conventional arms trade. Further, it identifies the main challenges and obstacles to ATT universalization and compliance in the Indo-Pacific region, and provides insights into opportunities for enhanced engagement with the Treaty by the states in the region.

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