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

By Thanh-Dam Truong , Karim Knio (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2016
ISBN
978-3-319-13550-2, 978-3-319-13551-9
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-13551-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3521138 bytes)
Series
SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace 24
Edition
1
Pages
XII, 105\114
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Epistemology;

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".

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