Power Politics In Asia S Contested Waters

Author : Enrico Fels,Truong-Minh Vu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319261522

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Power Politics in Asia’s Contested Waters by Enrico Fels,Truong-Minh Vu Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive and empirically rich analysis of regional maritime disputes in the South China Sea (SCS). By discussing important aspects of the rise of China’s maritime power, such as territorial disputes, altered perceptions of geo-politics and challenges to the US-led regional order, the authors demonstrate that a regional power shift is taking place in Asia-Pacific. The volume also provides in-depth discussions of the responses to Chinese actions by SCS claimants as well as by important non-claimant actors.

Author : Humphrey Hawksley
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781468314793

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Asian Waters by Humphrey Hawksley Pdf

“Seamlessly connects geography, history and great power intrigue across the entire Indo-Pacific region, increasingly the fulcrum of world history.” —James Clad, Director, Asian Security Programs at the American Foreign Policy Council In the sphere of future global politics, no region will be as hotly contested as the Asia-Pacific, where great power interests collide amid the mistrust of unresolved conflicts and disputed territory. This is where authoritarian China is trying to rewrite international law and challenge the democratic values of the United States and its allies. The lightning rods of conflict are remote reefs and islands from which China has created military bases in the 1.5-million-square-mile expanse of the South China Sea, a crucial world trading route that this rising world power now claims as its own. No other Asian country can take on China alone. In Asian Waters, award–winning foreign correspondent Humphrey Hawksley breaks down the politics—and tensions—that he has followed through this region for years. Reporting on decades of political developments, he has witnessed China’s rise to become one of the world’s most wealthy and militarized countries, and delivers in Asian Waters the compelling narrative of this most volatile region. Can the United States and China handle the changing balance of power peacefully? Do Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan share enough common purpose to create a NATO-esque multilateral alliance? Does China think it can even become a superpower while making an enemy of America? If so, how does it plan to achieve it? Asian Waters delves into these topics and more as Hawksley presents the most comprehensive and accessible analysis ever of this region.

Author : Ralph Pettman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UIUC:30112123387380

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Small Power Politics & International Relations in South East Asia by Ralph Pettman Pdf

Author : Yves Boquet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319519265

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The Philippine Archipelago by Yves Boquet Pdf

This book presents an updated view of the Philippines, focusing on thematic issues rather than a description region by region. Topics include typhoons, population growth, economic difficulties, agrarian reform, migration as an economic strategy, the growth of Manila, the Muslim question in Mindanao, the South China Sea tensions with China and the challenges of risk, vulnerability and sustainable development.

Author : Amit Ranjan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000173901

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Contested Waters by Amit Ranjan Pdf

This book examines India’s transboundary river water disputes with its South Asian riparian neighbours — Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. It explores the history of disputes and cooperation over the transboundary river water in this region as well as discusses current disputes and future concerns. It analyses how and why existing transboundary river water sharing treaties between India and its South Asian riparian neighbours are confronted with challenges. The book indicates that India’s transboundary river water disputes with its South Asian riparian neighbours are likely to escalate in coming years due to the widening of the demand¬–supply gap in the respective countries. It further shows the impact of bilateral relations on the resolution of transboundary river water disputes, even as cordial relationships do not always guarantee the absence of river water disputes between riparian states. The book looks at some key questions: How political are India’s transboundary rivers water disputes in South Asia? Why do the roots of India’s river water disputes with Bangladesh and Pakistan lie in the partition of the British India in 1947? Why are there reservations against India’s hydroelectricity projects or allegations of water theft? Is it possible to resolve transboundary river water disputes among these South Asian countries? This book will greatly interest scholars and researchers working in the areas of river management, environmental politics, transnationalism, water resources, politics and international relations, security studies, peace and conflict studies, geopolitics, development studies, governance and public administration, and South Asian studies in addition to policymakers and journalists.

Author : Barry Buzan,Yongjin Zhang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107077478

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Contesting International Society in East Asia by Barry Buzan,Yongjin Zhang Pdf

This book asks whether a regional international society exists in East Asia and why its existence matters to both regional and global orders.

Author : Seokwoo Lee,Hee Eun Lee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004344556

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Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 21 (2015) by Seokwoo Lee,Hee Eun Lee Pdf

Launched in 1991, the Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major internationally-refereed yearbook dedicated to international legal issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. It is published under the auspices of the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia (DILA) in collaboration with DILA-Korea, the Secretariat of DILA, in South Korea. When it was launched, the Yearbook was the first publication of its kind, edited by a team of leading international law scholars from across Asia. It provides a forum for the publication of articles in the field of international law and other Asian international legal topics. The objectives of the Yearbook are two-fold. First, to promote research, study and writing in the field of international law in Asia; and second, to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on contemporary international legal issues. Each volume of the Yearbook contains articles and shorter notes; a section on Asian state practice; an overview of the Asian states’ participation in multilateral treaties and succinct analysis of recent international legal developments in Asia; a bibliography that provides information on books, articles, notes, and other materials dealing with international law in Asia; as well as book reviews. This publication is important for anyone working on international law and in Asian studies.

Author : Lisa Björkman
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0822359693

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Pipe Politics, Contested Waters by Lisa Björkman Pdf

Winner, 2014 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences Despite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable for rich and poor alike. Mumbai's dry taps are puzzling, given that the city does not lack for either water or financial resources. In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman shows how an elite dream to transform Mumbai into a "world class" business center has wreaked havoc on the city’s water pipes. In rich ethnographic detail, Pipe Politics explores how the everyday work of getting water animates and inhabits a penumbra of infrastructural activity—of business, brokerage, secondary markets, and sociopolitical networks—whose workings are reconfiguring and rescaling political authority in the city. Mumbai’s increasingly illegible and volatile hydrologies, Björkman argues, are lending infrastructures increasing political salience just as actual control over pipes and flows becomes contingent on dispersed and intimate assemblages of knowledge, power, and material authority. These new arenas of contestation reveal the illusory and precarious nature of the project to remake Mumbai in the image of Shanghai or Singapore and gesture instead toward the highly contested futures and democratic possibilities of the actually existing city.

Author : Katalin Sulyok
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108489669

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Science and Judicial Reasoning by Katalin Sulyok Pdf

This pioneering study on environmental case-law examines how courts engage with science and reviews legitimate styles of judicial reasoning.

Author : Egbert Jahn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030341312

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War and Compromise Between Nations and States by Egbert Jahn Pdf

This volume investigates both violent conflicts and non-violent conflict behavior. It addresses a variety of topics, including responsibility and guilt in connection with war, violent conflicts, and terrorist attacks; conflict escalation in disputed areas such as the South China Sea, Syria, and Ukraine; war as an instrument of the United States’ and Russia's global peace policy, and the experiences with non-violent conflict strategies in the Indian independence movement. Furthermore, it presents country studies on Switzerland and Catalonia. Peaceful interethnic relations in multilingual states in Switzerland are examined and juxtaposed against independence movements, such as in Catalonia. Current political challenges faced by the European Union, e.g. divergent refugee policies and the Brexit, are also discussed.

Author : James C. F. Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Comparative government
ISBN : 0131563653

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Comparative Asian Politics by James C. F. Wang Pdf

Author : William R. Thompson,Thomas J. Volgy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781040099759

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Reconsidering the East Asian Peace by William R. Thompson,Thomas J. Volgy Pdf

This volume re-examines the notion of the East Asian peace, arguing that it requires updating for the current and near-future context of US-Chinese rivalry. The “East Asian peace” refers to the remarkable change in conflict levels in eastern Eurasia over the past 80 years or even the past 130 years or so. Prior to the late 1970s, East Asia was regarded as the most conflictual region on the planet. Although insurgencies have continued in places such as Myanmar, Thailand, and the Philippines, after the 1980s East and Southeast Asia became one of the world’s least conflictual regions. Geopolitics and economic development worked hand in hand to reduce conflict in the region and, in this respect, the East Asian peace has been a confluential peace. The general problem with a confluential peace is that the factors that shape it evolve over time, and the specific circumstances in question seem to be evolving in a different direction, with East Asia shaping up to be the most central locale of the contest between US and Chinese hegemony, both regionally and perhaps globally. This book argues that the idea of the East Asian peace now requires adjustment to the current and near-future context. The more general arguments presented here focus on alternative interpretations of how regional peace and order should be interpreted, while the more specific arguments involve interpretations of Chinese and other countries’ behavior in the context of the heightened rivalry between China and the United States. This book will be of much interest to students of East Asian politics, peace studies, foreign policy, and international relations.

Author : Yih-Jye Hwang,Edmund Frettingham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000357844

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Maritime and Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea by Yih-Jye Hwang,Edmund Frettingham Pdf

This edited volume rethinks the relationship between power and law in the age of China’s rise by examining recent developments in the South China Sea (SCS). The contributors explore different interpretations of international law on the legal status of the contested islands and rocks and provide detailed analyses of the contested concepts and provisions, the 2016 ruling by the SCS arbitration tribunal, as well as the environmental, economic, and political impacts of the ruling. This book facilitates a more meaningful and productive dialogue over the intersection, interaction, and interdependence between power and law in the context of the SCS. Assessing the interactions between political, legal, and normative forces, it provides insights into the specific dynamics of the dispute and the shifting security landscape in the region, but also offers a basis for thinking more deeply about the broader rise of China. This book will appeal to both students and scholars of IR, International Law, and Asian Studies and those engaged in research on the SCS disputes, the rise of China, and with a theoretical interest in law and power in international affairs.

Author : Alfred Gerstl,Mária Strašáková
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004312180

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Unresolved Border, Land and Maritime Disputes in Southeast Asia by Alfred Gerstl,Mária Strašáková Pdf

In Unresolved Border, Land and Maritime Disputes in Southeast Asia the authors shed light on unresolved and lingering territorial disputes in Southeast Asia and their reflection in current inter-state relations in the region, applying a wider regional and comparative perspective.

Author : Geoffrey Till,Ristian Atriandi Supriyanto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319584065

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Naval Modernisation in Southeast Asia by Geoffrey Till,Ristian Atriandi Supriyanto Pdf

This edited volume reviews the nature and consequences of naval modernisation in Southeast Asia against the backdrop of growing tensions over the South China Sea and increasing competition between the United States and China in the region. The varying problems and challenges facing the small and medium navies of the area as they seek to grow their maritime power in response to their perceptions of strategic need are compared and contrasted. The prospects of significant destabilisation of an already volatile area - even of a potential naval arms race, are carefully analysed. There can be little doubt that naval modernisation in Southeast Asia is a key indicator of the likely future of the Asia Pacific and also illustrates the problems faced by small and medium powers in a world dominated by the great. Accordingly this book will be of much interest to students and teachers focusing on security in the Asia Pacific region as well to those concerned with naval development in genera l.