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This volume examines the key motivations for and challenges to greater regional integration in Southeast Asia. It covers the full range of issues confronting ASEAN, and discusses both the developments in ASEAN to date and the ones likely to take place in the future.
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The South China Sea, which is a major strategic waterway for trade and oil shipments to Japan and Korea, has been the focus of a maritime dispute which has continued now for over six decades, with competing claims from China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Brunei. Recent...ly China has become more assertive in pressing its claims - harassing Vietnamese and Philippine fishing boats, publicising its claims more prominently in maps and in other ways, and threatening to board ships within the twelve-nautical-mile zone surrounding the islands that China claims. All of this is unsettling, with the United States supporting the Philippines, to which it has treaty obligations, and developing security ties with Vietnam which it views as a check upon China. This book examines the conflict potential of the current dispute, discusses how the main claimants and the United States view the issue, and assesses the prospects for a resolution of the problem.
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Examines the key motivations for and challenges to greater regional integration in Southeast Asia. This book demonstrates how security and economic concerns -domestic, regional and international - have either contributed to, or detracted from, an increased level of unity and coop...eration in ASEAN.
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The South China Sea is a major strategic waterway for trade and oil shipments to Japan, Korea as well as southern China. It has been the focus of a maritime dispute which has continued now for over six decades, with competing claims from China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia... and Brunei. Recently China has become more assertive in pressing its claims - harassing Vietnamese fishing vessels and seizing reefs in the Philippine claim zone. China has insisted that it has indisputable sovereignty over the area and has threatened to enforce its claim. All of this is unsettling and draws in the United States which is concerned about freedom of navigation in the area. The US has been supporting the Philippines and has been developing security ties with Vietnam as a check upon China. This book examines the conflict potential of the current dispute, it discusses how the main claimants and the United States view the issue, and assesses the prospects for a resolution of the problem.
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