Defending the maritime rules-based order : regional responses to the South China Sea disputes

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2020

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Honolulu, HI : East-West Center

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The seas are an increasingly important domain for understanding the balance-of-power dynamics between a rising People's Republic of China and the United States. Specifically, disputes in the South China Sea have intensified over the past decade. Multifaceted disputes concern overlapping claims to territory and maritime jurisdiction, strategic control over maritime domain, and differences in legal interpretations of freedom of navigation. These disputes have become a highly visible microcosm of a broader contest between a maritime order underpinned by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and challenger conceptions of order that see a bigger role for rising powers in generating new rules and alternative interpretations of existing international law. This issue examines the responses of non-claimant regional states--India, Australia, South Korea, and Japan--to the South China Sea disputes.

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South China Sea - Claims, Maritime boundaries - South China Sea, South China Sea - International cooperation, Jurisdiction (International law) - South China Sea, Balance of power - 21st century

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xv, 80 p.

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