Contents

pp iii-iv

List of Tables

pp v-v

Notes on Contributors

pp vi-xii

Foreword

pp xiii-xvi

Introduction: Strategic Challenges and Escalating Power Rivalry in the South China Sea

pp 1-6

1 - Between Competition and War: Complex Security Overlay and the South China Sea

pp 7-30

2 - The South China Sea as an Echo Chamber of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy

pp 31-60

Part I - Claimants of the Contested South China Sea

pp 61-62

3 - China’s Security Interests and Strategies in the South China Sea

pp 63-78

4 - Taiwan’s South China Sea Policy under the Tsai Administration

pp 79-100

5 - Vietnam and the East Sea in Its Strategic Thinking

pp 101-116

6 - The Philippines and the South China Sea Dispute: Duterte’s Hedging Approach with China and the United States

pp 117-134

7 - Competition, Contention, and Cooperation in the South China Sea: The Malaysian Perspective

pp 135-148

Part II - Non-Claimants in Southeast Asia

pp 149-150

8 - A Wary Warrior: Indonesia’s “Soft-Assertiveness” in the South China Sea

pp 151-178

9 - The South China Sea Dispute: Regional Integration, Status Ad Quem, and Singapore’s Position

pp 179-192

10 - Cambodia’s South China Sea Policy: From ASEAN Aligned to Echoing Chinese Clientism

pp 193-214

11 - ASEAN’s Involvement in the South China Sea Disputes: The Economics-Security Conundrum

pp 215-232

Part III - Quadrilateral Security Dialogue States

pp 233-234

12 - The United States and the South China Sea Question

pp 235-250

13 - Japan’s Security Interests and Strategies in the South China Sea

pp 251-266

14 - Australia’s Geopolitics and the South China Sea

pp 267-286

15 - India and the South China Sea Crucible: Cautious Inclinations of an Extra-Regional “Leading Power”

pp 287-302

Part IV - Non-Claimants in Europe and Eurasia

pp 303-304

16 - Britain’s Pivot to Asia: The Big Picture

pp 305-330

17 - Balancing and Hedging: The Two Levels of Russia’s Behaviour in the South China Sea

pp 331-348

18 - South Korea and the South China Sea: A Middle-Power Model for Practical Policies?

pp 349-370

Conclusion: Looking over the Horizon – Prospects for Settlement of the South China Sea Dispute?

pp 371-376

Index

pp 377-387