Ocean Governance and Conflict in the East and South China Sea
Christian Schultheiss
- Title
- Ocean Governance and Conflict in the East and South China Sea
- Subtitle
- Negotiating Natural Resources, Institutions and Power
- Author
- Christian Schultheiss
- Price
- € 140,99
- ISBN
- 9789048557974
- Format
- eBook PDF (Adobe DRM)
- Number of pages
- 382
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 18 - 08 - 2024
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Discipline
- Asian Studies
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I Introduction – Three Decades of Negotiations in the East and South China Sea Disputes
II Natural Resource Institutions, Conflict Management and the Perils of Cooperation
1. Conflict Management and Natural Resource Institutions
2. Power – How Institutions can be Weaponised
3. Alternative Explanations: Legal Entitlements, Domestic Politics and Fragmented Coalitions in Negotiations
4. Methodology
III Institutions for Marine Natural Resources in the South China Sea
1. China and the Philippines
2. China and Vietnam
3. The Philippines and Taiwan: Comprehensive Pressure, Minimal Cooperation
4. Brunei and Malaysia: From Confrontation to Boundary Delimitation and Resource-Sharing
IV Institutions for Marine Natural Resources in the East China Sea
1. China and Japan
2. The Republic of Korea, Japan and China
3. Japan and Taiwan
4. The Impact of Fisheries Agreements on Incidents and Coast Guard Behaviour in the East and South China Sea
V Institutions for Conflict Behaviour in the East and South China Sea
1. China and ASEAN Members: The Long March towards a South China Sea Code of Conduct
2. Institutions for Crisis Management in the East and South China Sea
VI Conclusions
Appendix Overview over cases
Bibliography
Table of Maps and Tables
II Natural Resource Institutions, Conflict Management and the Perils of Cooperation
1. Conflict Management and Natural Resource Institutions
2. Power – How Institutions can be Weaponised
3. Alternative Explanations: Legal Entitlements, Domestic Politics and Fragmented Coalitions in Negotiations
4. Methodology
III Institutions for Marine Natural Resources in the South China Sea
1. China and the Philippines
2. China and Vietnam
3. The Philippines and Taiwan: Comprehensive Pressure, Minimal Cooperation
4. Brunei and Malaysia: From Confrontation to Boundary Delimitation and Resource-Sharing
IV Institutions for Marine Natural Resources in the East China Sea
1. China and Japan
2. The Republic of Korea, Japan and China
3. Japan and Taiwan
4. The Impact of Fisheries Agreements on Incidents and Coast Guard Behaviour in the East and South China Sea
V Institutions for Conflict Behaviour in the East and South China Sea
1. China and ASEAN Members: The Long March towards a South China Sea Code of Conduct
2. Institutions for Crisis Management in the East and South China Sea
VI Conclusions
Appendix Overview over cases
Bibliography
Table of Maps and Tables
Reviews and Features
Most people know that there are disputes in the South China and East China Seas, which have led to dangerous incidents and are likely to do so again. What fewer people know is that there also is a lot of practical cooperation among the surrounding states. Their negotiations about multiple issues are richly documented in Christian Schultheiss’ innovative and carefully researched study. He shows how states search for cooperative arrangements without prejudicing their national interests and identifies the conditions that must be met for states to conclude such arrangements, thus leaving hope for conflict prevention and resolution.
Stein Tønnesson, Research Professor Emeritus, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Stein Tønnesson, Research Professor Emeritus, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Christian Schultheiss
Ocean Governance and Conflict in the East and South China Sea
Negotiating Natural Resources, Institutions and Power
This book tells the story of the negotiations between China, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries about the East and South China Sea disputes. Tapping into formerly classified and newly available primary sources, the book meticulously tracks these negotiations and their sudden U-turns. It is a story about the promises and perils of cooperation – as much about pragmatic, gradual and surprisingly resilient approaches to conflict resolution and ocean governance as it is about the expansion of states’ bargaining power through institutions. The book hinges on the question of when and why disputing parties reach agreement on joint oil and gas development, fisheries and codes of conduct, and when and why negotiations end in impasse. It is the first comprehensive and theoretically informed study of decades-long dispute settlement efforts in a central region of the Indo-Pacific where the expansion of China challenges the law of the sea and regional security.
Author
Christian Schultheiss
Christian Schultheiss is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He served as Senior Expert for the European External Action Service. He has published on the law of the sea, security and international relations in the Indo-Pacific and has held numerous visiting fellow positions in East Asia, Southeast Asia and Europe.
