China's Policy towards the South China Sea - When Geopolitics Meets the Law of the Sea (Paperback)

This book provides an explanation of Chinese policy towards the South China Sea, and argues that this has been sculpted by the changing dynamics of the law of the sea in conjunction with regional geopolitical flux. The past few decades have witnessed a bifurcated trend in China's management of territorial disputes. Over the years, while China gradually calmed and settled most land-border disputes with its neighbors, disputes on the ocean frontier continued to simmer in a seething cauldron. China's Policy towards the South China Sea attributes the distinctive path of China's approach to maritime disputes to a unique factor - the law of the sea (LOS) as the "rules of the road" in the ocean. By deconstructing the concept of "sovereignty" and treating the LOS as an evolving regime, the book examines how the changing dynamics of the LOS regime have complicated and reshaped the nature and content of sovereign disputes in the ocean regime as well as the options of settlement. Applying the findings to the South China Sea case, the author traces the learning curve on which China has embarked to comprehend the complexity of the dispute accordingly and finds that it is the dynamic interaction of the law of the sea regime and the geopolitical conditions that has driven the evolution of China's South China Sea policy. This book will be of great interest to students of Chinese and Asian politics, international law, international relations and security studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Contemporary Issues in the South China Sea
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2018
Authors:	Lingqun Li
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-88898-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Peace studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Embargos & sanctions Books > Law > International law > Public international law > Law of the sea
LSN:	0-367-88898-X
Barcode:	9780367888985

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