Ocean Governance and Conflict in the East and South China Sea

Negotiating Natural Resources, Institutions and Power

Christian Schultheiss (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

382 Seiten

2024
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-899-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Politics and International Relations in Asia
Zusatzinfo	9 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	94-6372-899-6 / 9463728996
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-899-7 / 9789463728997
Zustand	Neuware