This book examines the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute from a
foreign policy perspective, focusing on three key stakeholders:
China, Japan and the United States. The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands
dispute is a prominent territorial dispute between China and Japan.
This book critically assesses that dispute in a pragmatic,
policy-oriented manner. The central question of the work focuses on
the various military (direct invasion, coercion) and non-military
(bilateral negotiations, binding and non-binding third-party
options and delaying) foreign policy avenues available to China to
pursue its key interests over the disputed islands. To compare and
contrast these different options, the book employs a qualitative
rational-choice framework. This allows for a critical analysis on
the merits and demerits of various options and to anticipate
China's potential course of action based on the principle that
China is expected to act in a rational manner. This research offers
two main contributions. First, it adopts a security-focused
approach to complement the economic-focused works on the subject.
Second, it critically examines the various foreign policy options
as opposed to offering an avenue based on purely theoretical
assumptions. While the work concludes that a delaying/status quo
approach is rational for all parties involved, it highlights
alternative policy avenues that can build on the conclusion of the
rational-choice analysis. Through this it seeks to address the
possibility of escalation and de-escalation on the East China Sea
and highlights the critical role pro-active foreign policy making
plays in averting a negative outcome of the dispute. This book will
be of much interest to students of Chinese Foreign Policy, Asian
Politics, Security Studies and International Relations.
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