Sea Power, Law of the Sea, and a Sino-Japanese East China Sea “Resource War”

Hsiung, James C.

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“…The Sino-Japanese territorial dispute China and Japan's testy relationship around the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands has most frequently been analysed as a case of resource competition, 90 virulent popular nationalism, and/or bitter memory politics. 91 Soft power, by contrast, is said to be 'almost entirely absent from the Beijing-Tokyo relationship today'.…”

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Traversing the soft/hard power binary: the case of the Sino-Japanese territorial dispute

Hagström

Pan

2019

Rev. Int. Stud.

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Soft power and hard power are conceptualised in International Relations as empirically and normatively dichotomous, and practically opposite – one intangible, attractive, and legitimate, the other tangible, coercive, and less legitimate. This article critiques this binary conceptualisation, arguing that it is discursively constructed with and for the construction of Self and Other. It further demonstrates that practices commonly labelled and understood as soft power and hard power are closely interconnected. Best understood as ‘representational force’ and ‘physical force’ respectively, soft and hard power intertwine through the operation of productive and disciplinary forms of power. We illustrate this argument by analysing the Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. Both governments exercise representational force in constructing their respective versions of events and Self/Other. The soft/hard power binary itself plays a performative role as the Self is typically associated with soft power and the Other with hard power. The operation of productive power, moreover, privileges the attractiveness of the former and the repellence of the latter, and disciplinary power physically enforces these distinctions on subjects in both states. Finally, reinforced Self/Other distinctions legitimise preparations for violence against the Other on both sides, thus exposing how fundamentally entangled soft and hard power are in practice.

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Traversing the soft/hard power binary: the case of the Sino-Japanese territorial dispute

Hagström

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2019

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“…This has implications over who could exploit the oil and gas deposits in the central area of the East China Sea, which could potentially go a long way to satisfying the energy needs of both countries. The dispute between the two countries stems from their welldocumented alternative interpretations of the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention (LOS) in accordance with two cardinal principles for maritime delimitation (Hsiung 2005).…”

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Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of the South China Sea and the East China Sea

Yee

2011

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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This article systematically compares maritime territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas. It draws on the bargaining model of war and hegemonic stability theory to track the record of conflicts and shifts in the relative power balances of the claimants, leading to the conclusion that certainty and stability have improved in the South China Sea, with the converse happening in the East China Sea. To enrich the models, this article also considers social factors (constructivism) and arrives at the same conclusion. This calls for a differentiated methodological approach if we are to devise strategies to mediate and resolve these disputes.

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“…From a geopolitical perspective, the fact that these disputes are with Japan, a regional rival, or with a collection of smaller Southeast Asian powers bodes poorly for continued stability. In the former case, domestic leaders derive legitimacy from confrontation (Hsiung 2007), whereas in the latter there is little other than the countervailing power of the United States keeping the peace (Catley and Keliat 1997).…”

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Maritime Boundary Disputes in East Asia: Lessons for the Arctic1

Manicom

2011

International Studies Perspectives

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The impact of climate change on the circumpolar north has raised the profile of the Arctic Ocean to coastal states and presents serious foreign policy challenges. Chief among these is the pending delimitation dispute over the extended continental shelf between Canada, Denmark, the United States, and Russia. While delimitation disputes are not new to Arctic states, extended continental shelf claims are complicated by the existence of multiple claimants and a still developing international legal regime. To inform policymakers about what to expect from overlapping claims to disputed maritime areas, this paper draws comparative lessons for Arctic policymakers based on East Asia’s experience responding to overlapping jurisdictional entitlements created by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). East Asian states have been grappling with the challenge presented by overlapping claims to resource‐rich seabeds since the region ratified UNCLOS in the mid‐late 1990s. In light of similar geographic conditions (a dispute over a semi‐enclosed sea), alliance structures and the relative infancy of the claimant states with UNCLOS entitlements—Canada only ratified the treaty in 2003, and the United States has yet to do so—this paper sets out the case that important comparative lessons can be drawn from the East Asian experience with maritime delimitation disputes.

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Sea Power, Law of the Sea, and a Sino-Japanese East China Sea “Resource War”

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

Traversing the soft/hard power binary: the case of the Sino-Japanese territorial dispute

Traversing the soft/hard power binary: the case of the Sino-Japanese territorial dispute

Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of the South China Sea and the East China Sea

Maritime Boundary Disputes in East Asia: Lessons for the Arctic1

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