The South China Sea and Asian Regionalism
Subtitle: A Critical Realist Perspective
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jan 15, 2016
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9783319135502
Description: This book offers an innovative approach to the analysis of the current crisis in the South China Sea. Moving beyond the spirit of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the mechanisms of which are limited to physical geography, it demonstrates how epistemological insights from the field of critical realist philosophy can reveal the importance of cultural and structural conditioning processes in social interactions, processes which shape the conditions for the emergence of crisis points along a spectrum of conflict and cooperation. The potential for conflict resolution and the emergence of new regions in Pacific Asia much depends on the nature of such interactions at many levels (political-economic, semiotic and cultural) based on perceptions of what constitutes the "common" versus a Sinicised version of "Lebensraum".
Notes: Source title: The South China Sea and Asian Regionalism: A Critical Realist Perspective (SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace)