Power Politics in Asia’s Contested Waters: Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea

536 Pages·2016·9.248 MB·English

by  Enrico Fels, Truong-Minh Vu (eds.)

Global Power Shift
Enrico Fels
Editors
Truong-Minh Vu
Power Politics in
Asia’s Contested
Waters
Territorial Disputes in the South China
Sea
Global Power Shift
Comparative Analysis and Perspectives
Serieseditor:
XuewuGu
CenterforGlobalStudies,UniversityofBonn,Germany
ManagingEditor:
EnricoFels
CenterforGlobalStudies,UniversityofBonn,Germany
InternationalAdvisoryBoard:
LuisFernandes,PontificiaUniversidadeCatolicadoRiodeJaneiro,Brazil
G.JohnIkenberry,PrincetonUniversity,USA
CanrongJin,RenminUniversityofBeijing,China
SrikanthKondapalli,JawaharlalNehruUniversity,India
DingliShen,FudanUniversity,China
KazuhikoTogo,KyotoSanyoUniversity,Japan
RobertoZoboli,CatholicUniversityofMilan,Italy
Ample empirical evidence points to recent power shifts in multiple areas of
internationalrelationstakingplacebetweenindustrializedcountriesandemerging
powers,aswellasbetweenstatesandnon-stateactors.However,thereisadearthof
theoretical interpretation and synthesis of these findings, and a growing need for
coherent approaches to understand and measure the transformation. The central
issuestobeaddressedincludetheoreticalquestionsandempiricalpuzzles:Howcan
studiesofglobalpowershiftandtheriseof‘emergingpowers’benefitfromexisting
theories, and which alternative aspects and theoretical approaches might be suit-
able? How can the meanings, perceptions, dynamics, and consequences of global
power shift be determined and assessed? This edited series will include highly
innovativeresearchonthesetopics.Itaimstobringtogetherscholarsfromallmajor
worldregionsaswellasdifferentdisciplines,includingpoliticalscience,econom-
ics and human geography. The overall aim is to discuss and possibly blend their
differentapproachesandprovidenewframeworksforunderstandingglobalaffairs
andthegovernanceofglobalpowershifts.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10201
Enrico Fels • Truong-Minh Vu
Editors
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Power Politics in Asia s
Contested Waters
Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea
Editors
EnricoFels Truong-MinhVu
CenterforGlobalStudies UniversityofSocialSciences
UniversityofBonn andHumanities
Bonn,Germany HoChiMinhCity,Vietnam
ISSN2198-7343 ISSN2198-7351 (electronic)
GlobalPowerShift
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Contents
PartI HighWavesintheSouthChinaSea
1 Introduction:UnderstandingtheImportanceoftheDisputes
intheSouthChinaSea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
EnricoFelsandTruong-MinhVu
2 ASeaofTroubles:InternationalLawandtheSpitsbergenPlus
ApproachtoConflictManagementintheSouthChinaSea. . . . . . 25
HendrikW.Ohnesorge
3 Legalism,DevelopmentalismandSecuritization:TheCase
ofTerritorialDisputesintheSouthChinaSea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
TimoKivima¨ki
4 AnUnmannedSouthChinaSea?UnderstandingtheRisksand
ImplicationsoftheArrivaloftheDigitalandRoboticRevolution
inMilitaryAffairsintheSCS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
TobiasJ.Burgers
PartII ChinaRising
5 TheSouthChinaSeainChina’sDevelopingMaritimeStrategy. . . 97
MarcLanteigne
6 China’sSeaPowerAspirationsandStrategicBehaviourinthe
SouthChinaSeafromtheTheoreticalPerspectiveofIdentity
Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
RexLi
7 PunishthePhilippines,ForgiveVietnam?TheSouthChinaSea
DisputesintheEyesofChineseExperts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
PascalAbb
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8 China’sNationalistNarrativeoftheSouthChinaSea:APreliminary
Analysis. .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. 159
KhengSweLim
9 ContradictionofStrategicGoalsasaMajorConstrain
ofChinesePowerintheSouthChinaSea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
RichardQ.Turcsa´nyi
10 SteelHullsandHigh-Stakes:ProspectTheoryandChina’s
UseofMilitaryForceintheSouthChinaSea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
EvanJones
11 AssemblingaCityintheOcean:SanshaIslandintheSouthChina
SeaandtheNewPoliticsofChineseTerritorialization. . . . . . . . . . 225
GuanpeiMing
PartIII SoutheastAsia’sResponses
12 NavigatingStormyWaters:TheTriangularRelationshipbetween
theUnitedStates,VietnamandChinaandtheSouthChinaSea
Disputes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
SusanMcEwen-FialandAlexanderBrand
13 Vietnam’sPursuitofAlliancePoliticsintheSouthChinaSea. . . . 271
LeHongHiep
14 ‘Coopetition’andRiskToleranceintheSouthChinaSea:
IndonesiaandMalaysia’sMiddlePowerStrategies. . . . . . . . . . . . 289
BrunoHellendorff
15 DelicateEquilibrium:Indonesia’sApproachtotheSouth
ChinaSea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
PrashanthParameswaran
16 TheUS-Philippine-ChinaTriangle:FromEqui-balancingto
Counter-BalancingamidtheSouthChinaSeaDisputes. . . . . . . . . 337
RichardJavadHeydarian
17 China-ASEANRelationsandtheSouthChinaSea:Beyond
BalancingandBandwagoning?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
ElisaI.H€orhager
PartIV ImportantNon-claimantActors
18 U.S.PolicyTowardstheDisputesintheSouthChinaSea
Since1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
TaylorFravel
Contents vii
19 RisingChinesePowerandTerritorialAssertivenessintheSouth
ChinaSea:India-VietnamStrategicPartnershipasa
CounterbalancingEndeavor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
SriniSitaraman
20 KeepingtheDragonatBay:TheSouthChinaSeaDispute
inJapan’sSecurityStrategy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
AlexandraSakaki
21 Australia,IndiaandJapan:TheThree‘WorriedOutsiders’
andTheirStrategiesTowardstheSouthChinaSea. . . . . . . . . . . . 441
AntonioHenriqueLucenaSilvaandWellingtonDantasdeAmorim
22 DistantPartners:EuropeandtheSouthChinaSea. . . . . . . . . . . . 469
GerhardWill
23 TheSouthChinaSeaandNewZealand’sForeignPolicy
BalancingAct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
RobertAyson
PartV TheWayForward
24 PacificCommunityforPeaceandGovernance:Towards
aFrameworkforPeaceandSecurityinthePacific. . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
JamesD.Bindenagel
25 TheUseorThreatofForceintheSouthChinaSeaDisputes
Since1945:ATimeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
VanPham
AbouttheAuthors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Part I
High Waves in the South China Sea
Chapter 1
Introduction: Understanding the Importance
of the Disputes in the South China Sea
EnricoFelsandTruong-MinhVu
When looking at Asia-Pacific, a regional power shift seems to be taking place.
Probably the most notable feature of this is the rise of China as an economic
powerhouse,a majormilitary power aswellasa proactiveplayerinvarious multi-
lateralinstitutionsandfora.MultipleauthorshaverightlydescribedChinaasoneof
the mostimportantforcesfor changebothatthe regional and globallevel. China’s
widelydiscussedriseandthechangingregionalpowerbalancecausedbytheMiddle
Kingdom’simpressivedevelopmenthaveindeedalteredtheglobalperceptionsofthe
geo-politics andgeo-economicsofAsia-Pacific.Ontheone hand,thisisduetothe
greaterroleChinaisnowplayingbeyonditsownregion(i.e.inEurope,Africaand
SouthAmerica).Moreimportantly,however,thisisonetheotherhandalsostrongly
relatedtothegrowingpossibilitythattheUS-ledregionalorderinAsia-Pacificmay
bechallenged(andpermanentlyaltered)byanincreasinglyconfidentChineselead-
ership.Thiscannotonlybeexemplifiedbytheinstallationofnewintergovernmental
bodiessuchastheAsianInfrastructureInvestmentBank(headquarteredinBeijing),
the BRICS-operated New Development Bank (headquartered in Shanghai) or the
E.Fels(*)
CenterforGlobalStudies,RheinischeFriedrich-Wilhelms-Universita¨tBonn,Walter-Flex-Str.
3,53113Bonn,Germany
e-mail:[email protected]
T.-M.Vu
SaigonCenterforInternationalStudies,UniversityofSocialSciencesandHumanities,12
DinhTienHoangStreet,District1,HoChiMinhCity,Vietnam
e-mail:[email protected]
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