碩士 / 國防大學 / 戰略研究所 / 104 / Since the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) stipulates the 200 nautical-mile exclusive economic zone in 1982, countries have claimed their sovereignty and jurisdiction in order to pursue the maritime economic resources. Therefore, the ocean has become a field for international conflicts. Taiwan is surrounded by maritime threats in which the territorial dispute with Japan over the Diaoyu Islands in the north, and deadlock with the Philippines in terms of the overlapping maritime delimitation negotiations in the south. It is deteriorated by the escalating situation in the South China Sea as claimants continuously expanding islands and rocks. Thus, there is a dramatic change in the maritime strategic environment which has tremendously compromised Taiwan’s maritime security. From the decision-making perspective, this study attempts to explore the "structural factors" of the international maritime conflicts, as well as the "dynamics - concept" factor demonstrated by the government when facing the maritime conflicts. In the context of international relations, "conflict decision" belongs to the sub-domain of "foreign policy decisions". This paper takes the "2008 Lienhe Fishing Boat and 2013 Guang Da Xing No. 28 incident " as examples, and adopts Graham T. Allison’s foreign policy decision-making model as an analytical approach, to investigate the decision-making process among the head of state, the executive and bureaucratic branches, and generalize the influential factors. It has found:
1. The "structural factors" of conflicting environment are caused by countries’ unique maritime policy and claims and poor communication mechanisms.
2. Due to influence of pluralistic democratic society, Taiwan’s decision-making towards conflicts has shown the issue-oriented "dynamic factors" in order to satisfy the general public’s expectation.
3. The "conceptual factors" not only influence decision-makers to respond to the pressure and awareness of the environment, but also play a key intermediate role in the process of change of decision making.
Since the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) stipulates the 200 nautical-mile exclusive economic zone in 1982, countries have claimed their sovereignty and jurisdiction in order to pursue the maritime economic resources. Therefore, the ocean has become a field for international conflicts. Taiwan is surrounded by maritime threats in which the territorial dispute with Japan over the Diaoyu Islands in the north, and deadlock with the Philippines in terms of the overlapping maritime delimitation negotiations in the south. It is deteriorated by the escalating situation in the South China Sea as claimants continuously expanding islands and rocks. Thus, there is a dramatic change in the maritime strategic environment which has tremendously compromised Taiwan’s maritime security. From the decision-making perspective, this study attempts to explore the "structural factors" of the international maritime conflicts, as well as the "dynamics - concept" factor demonstrated by the government when facing the maritime conflicts. In the context of international relations, "conflict decision" belongs to the sub-domain of "foreign policy decisions". This paper takes the "2008 Lienhe Fishing Boat and 2013 Guang Da Xing No. 28 incident " as examples, and adopts Graham T. Allison’s foreign policy decision-making model as an analytical approach, to investigate the decision-making process among the head of state, the executive and bureaucratic branches, and generalize the influential factors. It has found:
1. The "structural factors" of conflicting environment are caused by countries’ unique maritime policy and claims and poor communication mechanisms.
2. Due to influence of pluralistic democratic society, Taiwan’s decision-making towards conflicts has shown the issue-oriented "dynamic factors" in order to satisfy the general public’s expectation.
3. The "conceptual factors" not only influence decision-makers to respond to the pressure and awareness of the environment, but also play a key intermediate role in the process of change of decision making.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/104NDU00322005 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Chung-Ming Chang, 張忠銘 |
| Contributors | Cheng-Lung Tai, 戴政龍 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 196 |
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