China, South Korea, and the Socotra Rock Dispute A Submerged Rock and Its Destabilizing Potential /

• Main Author: Fox, Senan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Asia-Politics and government.; Diplomacy.; International relations.; Asian Politics.; Foreign Policy.

This book exclusively addresses the political, historical and important contemporary strategic implications of the decades-long Socotra Rock dispute between China and South Korea. It is one of several maritime disputes involving China and a smaller state, and for which maritime law offers no apparen...

Table of Contents:

• 1. An Insoluble Dispute?
• 2. The Limits of Maritime Law
• 3. Bilateral Challenges and Mutual Anxieties
• 4. Recent Controversies and Agreements
• 5. Balancing Act: China's Air Defense Declaration
• 6. Current Security, Economic, and Domestic Political Factors
• 7. Present and Future Considerations.