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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Core of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute
• 3. Dispute Resolution Options
• 4. Rational Choice
• 5. Managing the Dispute
• 6. Escalation and De-Escalation on the East China Sea.
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This book examines the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute from a foreign policy perspective, focusing on three key stakeholders: China, Japan and the United States. The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute is a prominent territorial dispute between China and Japan. This book critically assesses that dispute in a pragmatic, policy-oriented manner. The central question of the work focuses on the various military (direct invasion, coercion) and non-military (bilateral negotiations, binding and non-binding third-party options and delaying) foreign policy avenues available to China to pursue its key interests over the disputed islands. To compare and contrast these different options, the book employs a qualitative rational-choice framework. This allows for a critical analysis on the merits and demerits of various options and to anticipate China's potential course of action based on the principle that China is expected to act in a rational manner. This research offers two main contributions. First, it adopts a security-focused approach to complement the economic-focused works on the subject. Second, it critically examines the various foreign policy options as opposed to offering an avenue based on purely theoretical assumptions. While the work concludes that a delaying/status quo approach is rational for all parties involved, it highlights alternative policy avenues that can build on the conclusion of the rational-choice analysis. Through this it seeks to address the possibility of escalation and de-escalation on the East China Sea and highlights the critical role pro-active foreign policy making plays in averting a negative outcome of the dispute. This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese Foreign Policy, Asian Politics, Security Studies and International Relations.
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• Introduction / Tim F. Liao, Krista E. Wiegand, and Kimie Hara
• Part I. Historical considerations: Much ado over small islands : the Sino-Japanese confrontation over Senkaku/Diaoyu / Gavan McCormack
• Okinawa, Taiwan, and the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in United States-Japan-China relations / Kimie Hara
• The May 26, 1971 US diplomatic note on the Diaoyutai issue : Taiwan's sovereignty claim and the US response / Man-houng Lin
• Part II. Legal considerations: Sovereignty over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands : a guide to the legal debate / Ryan Scoville
• A constructive role for international law in the Senkaku islands? / Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky
• Part III. Social and political considerations: The formation of collective memory about the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands history in China and Japan / Tim F. Liao
• How Japan benefits from the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute / Krista E. Wiegand
• Sino-Japanese conflict and reconciliation in the East China Sea / Paul Midford.

Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this volume offers a rare forum for a serious analysis of the territorial dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands between China and Japan. To understand the complexity of the dispute and to find peaceful solutions, we must reach beyond the confines of a single discipline and perspective. The volume deconstructs conflicting perspectives on the two sides of the dispute. Territorial disputes often become symbolic expressions of nationalistic rivalries, particularly as political claims for territories escalate and economic competition for resources between countries intensifies. Cutting through the political rhetoric on both sides of the controversy and bringing together a group of eight scholars from the disciplines of history, international relations, law, political science, and sociology, this book analyzes the relevant history, international law, multilateral relations, political agendas, and social and collective memory, to shed light on this difficult dispute. Taken together, the chapters of the book propose short-term, medium-term, and long-term peaceful solutions for going beyond the impasse of the current territorial dispute.
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• Prologue Mari Katayanagi
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Context: churn in the Asia-Pacific
• 3. The China-Japan relationship through the ages
• 4. The Diaoyu/Senkaku islands saga
• 5. Worth nothing, yet worth everything: why countries (may) go to war over small islands
• 6. A genealogy of creative governance
• 7. Splitting
• 8. Sharing
• 9. Suppressing (or suspending) sovereignty
• 10. Single sovereignty but shared jurisdiction
• 11. Shelving (or setting aside) dispute while developing
• 12. Swapping and selling
• 13. Status quo (or stalemate or standstill)
• 14. Speculating
• 15. Conclusion Epilogue I: The Diaoyu/Senkaku islands dispute and future development of Sino-Japanese relations Liu Jiangyong Epilogue II: Proposing solutions to the Senkaku/Diaoyu affair Akihiro Iwashita.
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Since the coming into force of the United Nations Law of the Sea, states have been targeting outlying islands to expand their exclusive economic zones, simultaneously stirring up strident nationalism when such plans clash with those of neighbouring states. No such actions have brought the world closer to the brink of war than the ongoing face-off between China and Japan over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands, an uninhabited archipelago in the East China Sea. In this timely and original book, Godfrey Baldacchino provides a detailed exploration of seven tried and tested solution protocols that have led to innovative 'win-win' solutions to island disputes over the last four centuries. A closer look at the circumstances and processes that brought contending regional powers to an honourable, even mutually advantageous, settlement over islands provides a convincing and original argument as to why the conflict over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands need not conclude in a 'zero-sum' or 'winner takes all' solution, as is the likely outcome of both open conflict and international arbitration. The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners concerned with the festering Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute, as well as students, scholars and policy specialists in geography, geopolitics, international relations, conflict studies, island studies, Asian studies and history.
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• Foreword
• Preface
• The genesis of dispute in the East China Sea
• International law, legal provisions, and conventions
• The resurgance of nationalism in China and Japan
• Oil, gas, and economics of the conflict
• The China-Japan-America triangle : coercive diplomacy, military supremacy, and strategic power interplay
• Reigniting a quiescent volcano : is there a finish line to the dispute over the Senkakus?
• Submissions for policy consideration and formulation.

Tracing the genesis of the Senkaku Islands in the memoirs of history, and its potential future, in the backdrop of the East China Sea's brewing dispute, this book chronicles the journey of Sino-Japanese relations in the explicit context of the Senkaku Islands. The evolving power transition dynamics in East Asia render Washington the lynchpin of Tokyo's diplomatic and security strategy, and vice versa. Conversely, China is abrasively displaying an almost predictable geo-strategic pattern and strategy of enforcing territorial claims across Asia, keeping it just below the threshold of provoking conflict, whilst testing the tenacity of existential status quoist norms. Consequentially, the need to steer Asia towards a regional order that maintains stability in the power equilibrium, thereby challenging a visibly coercive Sino-centric vision of the future Asia, especially within the Indo-Pacific, has become far more manifest than ever before. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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