Regional Disorder: The South China Sea Disputes

by Sarah Raine and Christian Le Miere

Book Overview

China's rise casts a vast and uncertain shadow over the regional balance of power in the Asia Pacific, and nowhere is this clearer than in the South China Sea. The significance of the fraught territorial disputes in this potentially resource-rich sea extends far beyond the small groupings of islands that are at their heart, and into the world of great-power politics. As the struggle for hegemony between the US and China intersects with the overlapping...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415702623
• ISBN13: 9780415702621
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"