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Island Disputes and Maritime Regime Building in East Asia

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Min Gyo Koo

    1. Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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  • Approaches Asian maritime disputes from an interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing economics, politics and history
  • Offers a theoretically informed and empirically rich analysis of the maritime regime in East Asia
  • Provides policymakers and analyst with a road map for successful management and development of the world’s most dynamic sea areas

Part of the book series: The Political Economy of the Asia Pacific (PEAP)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. East Asian Island and Maritime Disputes in a World of Globalization

    Pages 1-19

  3. Conceptual and Theoretical Framework

    Pages 21-44

  4. Quantitative Analysis of East Asian Island Disputes

    Pages 45-62

  5. The Island and Maritime Disputes in the East Sea/Sea of Japan

    Pages 63-101

  6. The Island and Maritime Disputes in the East China Sea

    Pages 103-136

  7. The Island and Maritime Disputes in the South China Sea

    Pages 137-166

  8. Maritime Regime Building in East Asia

    Pages 167-187

  9. Conclusion and Implications

    Pages 189-200

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 201-205
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islands has emotional content far beyond any material significance because giving way on the island issue to Japan would be considered as once again compromising the sovereignty over the whole Korean peninsula. For Japan, the Dokdo issue may lack the same degree of strategic and economic values and emotional appeal as the other two territorial disputes that Japan has had with Russia and the two Chinas – namely the Northern Territories/Southern Kurile Islands and the Senkaku Islands, respectively. Nevertheless, fishing resources and the maritime boundary issues became highly salient with the introduction of UNCLOS. Also, the legal, political, and economic issues surrounding Dokdo are all intertwined with Japan’s other territorial disputes to the extent that concessions of sovereignty on any of these island disputes could jeopardize claims or negotiations concerning the rest. South Korea and Japan have forged a deeper diplomatic and economic partn- ship over the past decade. A new spirit of partnership after the landmark joint declaration of 1998 culminated in the successful co-hosting of the World Cup 2002. At the end of 2003 the two neighbors began to negotiate an FTA to further strengthen their already close economic ties. South Korea’s decades-long embargo on Japanese cultural products has now been lifted, while a number of South Korean pop stars are currently sweeping across Japan, creating the so-called “Korean Wave” fever. A pragmatic calculation of national interests would thus suggest cooperative behavior.

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  • Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Min Gyo Koo

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