Unresolved Border, Land and Maritime Disputes in Southeast Asia: Bi- and Multilateral Conflict Resolution Approaches and ASEAN’s Centrality

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Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Maps

The Award of the Permanent Court of Arbitration on the South China Sea, July 2016

Introduction

1 Boundaries and Frontiers in Southeast Asia: Fences Have Made Fretful Neighbors

2 Border Disputes in Southeast Asia and Their Impact on the Regional Integration Process

3 ASEAN and the Thai-Cambodian Conflict: The Final Stage at Preah Vihear?

4 Claiming Phu Quoc/Koh Tral: Irredentism as a Recurrent Theme of Cambodian Domestic Politics

5 Multitrack Diplomatic Approaches to Border and Territorial Disputes in Southeast Asia and Soft Balancing

6 The South China Sea Conflict: Ten Thousand Stones and a Nine-Dash- Line – Rethinking Maritime Space Concepts

7 The South China Sea Dispute: A Shift to a More Proactive Role in ASEAN’s Discourse and Policies since 2012?

8 The Logic of Strategic Restraint and Prospects for Joint Development in the South China Sea

9 Lessons to be Learned: A Neorealist Assessment of the HYSY-981 Standoff and Its Implications for Vietnam’s South China Sea Strategy

10 The Spring 2014 Incidents in the South China Sea: Trigger of a More Intense and Assertive Security Discourse in China?

Conclusion

Index