博士 / 國立中興大學 / 國際政治研究所 / 103 / The South China Sea is an area contested by countries in the region. Currently, Taiwan effectively holds control over the Pratas (Dongsha) Island, the Zhongsha Islands and Itu Aba (Taiping Island). The Paracel (Xisha) Islands is currently under dispute among Taiwan, China and Vietnam while the Spratly Islands are shrouded by a number of disputes among neighboring countries, especially between China and the Philippines. At the same time, as the South China Sea harbors rich energy potential and occupies an strategic position in terms of geopolitics, many countries in the vicinity have laid sovereign claims to the region in hopes of taking over submerged energy resources. In recent years, the South China Sea has escalated into an international conflict that involves great power competition. In short, the main dispute in the South China Sea revolves around sovereignty and maritime resources. Factors that determine the development of the issue include the relations among parties to the dispute, the domestic development of claimant states and the intervention of external powers, the latter defined by the US return to Asia. The above factors generate tremendous threats to Asia Pacific security and international order.
This article seeks to analyze the South China Sea dispute through the lenses of history, power politics and conflict management and decode the issue based on the national interest of respective claimant states. In addition, international relations theory is applied to establish insights into various arguments and claims surrounding the dispute. A short conclusion of this research is that both military actions and legal recourse through the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) are not enough to resolve the issue. The US should adopt a cautious approach towards intervening in the South China Sea. “Compromise” is the key concept that shall provide the answer to the issue. At the current stage, the key to benign developments in the South China Sea issue lies in the achievement of a sustainable consensus among the claimant states. Achievement of such a consensus not only rests on the establishment of political contracts (Code of Conduct for the South China Sea) and institutional management, agreement also rests on the multilateral recognition of new conditions and ideas.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/103NCHU5692042 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Ming-Hsun Hsieh, 謝明勳 |
| Contributors | 陳佩修 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 334 |
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