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China's Crisis Bargaining in the South China Sea Dispute (2010-2013)
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Abstract As one of China’s most intricate territorial dispute, the South China Sea dispute has sufficiently consumed significant amount of Chinese leaders’ attention in Beijing. This paper reveals that China exerts signaling strategy in its crisis bargaining over the South China Sea dispute. This strategy co... view more
As one of China’s most intricate territorial dispute, the South China Sea dispute has sufficiently consumed significant amount of Chinese leaders’ attention in Beijing. This paper reveals that China exerts signaling strategy in its crisis bargaining over the South China Sea dispute. This strategy contains reassurance as positive signal through offering negotiation and appearing self-restraint and of negative signal by means of escalatory acts and verbal threats. China’s crisis bargaining in the South China Sea dispute aims to preserve crisis stability: a stabilized condition after escalation in which neither further escalation nor near-distant resolution is in order. From the yearly basis analysis in the four-year span study, China’s longing for crisis stability fits into its conduct in crisis bargaining with Southeast Asian states.... view less
Keywords
international relations; Southeastern Europe; territorial sovereignty; maritime law; ASEAN; conflict situation; crisis management (econ., pol.); China; sovereignty
Classification
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Page/Pages
p. 103-120
Journal
Journal of ASEAN Studies, 2 (2014) 2
ISSN
2338-1353
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed