The South China Sea and Asian Regionalism A Critical Realist Perspective /

• Main Authors: Truong, Thanh-Dam (Author), Karim, Knio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace, 24
• Subjects: Environment.; Epistemology.; Economic geography.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Economic Geography.

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 o...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Critical Realism and the Morphogenetic Approach
• A Critical Genealogy of the Emergence of South China Sea as a ‘Complex’ in International Relations
• The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III) and China’s Assertion of the U-shaped Line
• Conclusion.