Overview
- Draws on not only the study of Southeast Asian maritime history and international law, but more importantly international order and national identity theories
- Exposes the consequences of historical and present negative identification and misrecognition of great power roles on order- and consensus-building in the South China Sea
- Highlights the challenges for great powers if they seek to change the status quo without garnering social consent
Part of the book series: Governance, Security and Development (GSD)
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This book examines the South China Sea territorial disputes from the perspective of international order. The authors argue that both China and the US are attempting to impose their respective preferred orders to the region and that the observed disputes are due to the clash of two competing order-building projects. Ordering the maritime space is essential for these two countries to validate their national identities and to achieve ontological security. Because both are ontological security-seeking states, this imperative gives them little room for striking a grand bargain between them. The book focuses on how China and the US engage in practices and discourses that build, contest, and legitimise the two major ordering projects they promote in the region. It concludes that China must act in its legitimation strategy in accordance with contemporary publicly accepted norms and rules to create a legitimate maritime order, while the US should support ASEAN in devising a multilateral resolution of the disputes.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“This book is a useful addition to the OST literature, supplementing the many such case studies on Poland, the EU, Russian order building, even the British role in the American Civil War. It is masterfully researched with comprehensive bibliographies and analytical footnotes on both OST and SCS.” (James L Huskey, Governance, Issue (1-3), 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Anisa Heritage is Research Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, UK.
Pak K. Lee is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and International Relations in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, UK.
Pak K. Lee is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and International Relations in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Order, Contestation and Ontological Security-Seeking in the South China Sea
Authors: Anisa Heritage, Pak K. Lee
Series Title: Governance, Security and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34807-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34806-9Published: 23 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34809-0Published: 23 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34807-6Published: 22 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2945-7815
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7823
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 265
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Politics, International Relations Theory, Diplomacy