📣How do secondary states in the Asia-Pacific enhance security and strategic autonomy in a networked strategic environment? Check out my new article @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social that answers this using a dataset of joint military exercises of Asia-Pacific (1970–2024). academic.oup.com/jpr/article/...
🗣I argue that secondary states pursue 3 network strategies to mitigate vulnerability to great-power coercion and to enhance relational leverage and access to information and resources: 1) Vertical diversification with great powers; 2) Horizontal diversification with peers, and 3) Bridging.