A special issue on “China’s Maritime Embroilments” that I have co-edited has just been published in Asian Survey. This issue originates in a conference I orgainsed on “Collaboration at Sea”, kindly funded by a grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
I have co-written the introduction with Prof. Lowell Dittmer (“China’s Maritime Embroilments” [FULL TEXT]) and an article titled “The South China Sea: Still No War on the Horizon” [FULL TEXT]. In my article I am using a conflict transformation framework to demonstrate that in fact positive transformations have taken place in the South China Sea between 1991 and 2007. I am arguing that even though these transformations have been weakened in recent years, particularly regarding actor behaviour, a major armed conflict is still highly unlikely.
The full table of content is as follows (PDF):
- China’s Maritime Embroilments (FULL TEXT)
LOWELL DITTMER AND MIKAEL WEISSMANN - The South China Sea: Law Trumps Power
STEIN TØNNESSON - Behind Rising East Asian Maritime Tensions with China: Struggle without Breaking
CHONG-PIN LIN - Chinese Discourse on the ‘‘Nine-Dashed Line’’: Rights, Interests, and Nationalism
ZHENG WANG - Japan’s Approach to Maritime Security in the South China Sea
PAUL MIDFORD - How Economic, Strategic, and Domestic Factors Shape Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation in the East China Sea Dispute
PAUL O’SHEA - The US Rebalance and Southeast Asia: A Work in Progress
SHELDON W. SIMON’ - The South China Sea: Still No War on the Horizon (FULL TEXT)
MIKAEL WEISSMANN - The South China Sea: Achievements and Challenges to Dispute Management
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