China and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute Escalation and De-escalation Asian Security Studies Series
Auteur : Szanto Balazs
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.
1. Introduction 2. The Core of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute 3. Dispute Resolution Options 4. Rational Choice 5. Managing the Dispute 6. Escalation and De-Escalation on the East China Sea
Balazs Szanto has a PhD in International and Strategic Studies from The University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.
Date de parution : 12-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 12-2017
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de China and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute :
Mots-clés :
Diaoyu Islands Dispute; Diaoyu Islands; South China Sea; Donetsk People’s Republic; maritime security; Time State Interactions; international law; CCP; Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands; East China Sea; China; Pulau Batu Puteh; Japan; JCG Vessel; Balazs Szanto; CCP’s Legitimacy; Resolution Options; Formal Tribunal; Chinese Strategic Thinking; PRC’s Action; Post-war Japan’s Identity; PRC’s Security; Direct Deterrence; Status Quo Interests; Offensive Realism; Worst Case Scenario Thinking; Asb Concept; Mao’s People’s War; Patriotic Education System; Potential Negative Shift; Non-violent Dispute Resolution; Sun Tzu