The South China Sea: A Crucible of Regional Cooperation or Conflict-making Sovereignty Claims?

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 3/8/2018
EAN 9781107441477, ISBN10: 1107441471

Paperback, 380 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Language: English

The history of the South China Sea is a catalyst of international cooperation and conflict. Security in the Indo-Asia-Pacific is largely governed by command of these strategic waters. More than half of global shipping transits the South China Sea, which also holds significant reserves of oil, gas and minerals, as well as some of the largest fisheries in the world. Drawing on a team of field-leading researchers, Jenner and Thuy provide an empirical study of the global ocean's most contested sea space. The volume's four parts offer an insightful analysis of the significance of the South China Sea to the international order; sub-national agents of influence on relations between states; the disputes over sovereignty through the analytical prism of international law; and the conflictful region's prospects. The primary source-based conclusion elucidates the agency of history and strategy in the South China Sea.

Introduction
a crucible of regional cooperation or conflict-making sovereignty claims? C. J. Jenner and Tran Truong Thuy
Part I. Global Dimensions
1. The global significance of the South China Sea dispute Geoffrey Till
2. Global issues and national interests in the South China Sea Rodolfo C. Severino
3. The Obama administration's strategic rebalancing in Asia
from a diplomatic to a strategic constrainment of an emergent China? Renato Cruz De Castro
4. The South China Sea and the 'Thucydides trap' Mark J. Valencia
Part II. Sub-National, National and Regional Interests
5. Continuity and change in the South China Sea Alice Ba and Ian Storey
6. Understanding the evolution of US-China-ASEAN relations
a US perspective Bonnie Glaser
7. India and the South China Sea Vijay Sakhuja
8. Domestic politics
the overlooked undercurrent in the South China Sea C. J. Jenner and Nguyen Hung Son
Part III. International Maritime Law
9. The Tonkin Gulf Agreements
a model of conflict resolution? Stein Tønnesson
10. UNCLOS and maritime security in the South China Sea Nguyen Thi Lan Anh
11. Straight baselines around insular formations not constituting an archipelagic state Erik Franckx and Marco Benatar
12. Disputed areas in the South China Sea
prospects for arbitration or advisory opinion Robert C. Beckman and Leonardo Bernard
Part IV. Towards Conflict or Cooperation
13. China's naval modernisation and US strategic rebalancing
implications for stability in the South China Sea Carlyle A. Thayer
14. Sino-American rivalry in the South China Sea
is it time to form a maritime middle power cooperative? C. J. Jenner and Sukjoon Yoon
15. Regional cooperation in the South China Sea Jon M. Van Dyke
16. Fishery disputes and regional cooperation Kuan-Hsiung Wang
Conclusion
history, strategy and the South China Sea C. J. Jenner
Index.