Domestic Politics, International Bargaining, and China's Territorial Disputes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783611803321
• Autore: Chung Chien-Peng
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, Aug. 2004
• ISBN: 1-134-31685-2; 0-429-23116-4; 1-134-31686-0; 1-280-07885-5; 0-203-41389-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Collana: Politics in Asia series
• Disciplina: 327.51/009/045
• Soggetti: China History 1949-; China Boundaries; China Foreign relations 1949-; China Politics and government 1949-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by RoutledgeCurzon.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-211) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Domestic Politics, International Bargaining and China's Territorial Disputes; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Importance of topic; Territorial sovereignty disputes and two-level games; Contribution to the field; 2 The two-level game hypothesis; Toward a theory of negotiation and ratification; The importance of win-sets and their determinants; 3 The Diaoyu/Tiaoyutai/Senkaku Islands dispute; Introduction; Sovereignty and resource claims over the Diaoyu/Tiaoyutai/Senkaku Islands; The first incident: petroleum discoveries and the Okinawa reversion (1970-1972)The second incident: the Sino-Japanese Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1978; The third incident: of torches and lighthouses (1990); The fourth incident: the Kita-Kojima lighthouse (1996); Subsequent incidents, findings and conclusions; 4 The Zhenbao/Chenpao/Damansky Islands dispute; Introduction; The geography of Damansky/Zhenbao Island; The historical background of ; the Damansky/Zhenbao Island dispute; Prelude to the Sino-Soviet border conflict: 8 March 1963-1 March 1969; The Sino-Soviet border conflict: 2 March 1969-21 March 1969""Chicken"" diplomacy in the aftermath of the conflict: 29 March 1969-10 September 1969; Resumption of border negotiations: 11 September 1969-14 December 1969; Border negotiations stalled: 1970-1986; The Sino-Soviet boundary dispute 1962-1986: a look back; Border negotiations in the Sino-Soviet rapprochement: 28 July 1986-16 May 1991; Ratification and demarcation: persistence amidst adversity; Findings and conclusions; 5 The McMahon Line/Aksai Chin dispute; Introduction; Sino-Indian relations before March 1959; The breakdown of boundary negotiations and the prelude to war: March 1959-November 1962The Sino-Indian War and after; Normalization and Sino-Indian dialogue: 1976-1987; Confidence building and Sino-Indian relations since 1988: rapprochement or rivalry?; Findings and conclusions; 6 Beyond two-level games? The role of subnational, national and transnational actors in the South China Sea islands dispute; Introduction; A brief history of territorial claims; Petroleum prospecting and the involvement of multinational oil companies; Track II; Chinese bureaucratic tangle in the South China Sea disputeMischief Reef and after: strategic interaction between China and ASEAN and within ASEAN; Scarborough Shoal: subnational actors at play; Fishing in troubled waters; Possible future developments; 7 Testing the propositions of the two-level game hypothesis; Two-level game analysis and China's territorial sovereignty disputes: strengths and limitations; 8 Conclusion: the ""moral"" and ""realist"" bases of the Chinese approach to territorial sovereignty disputes; The changing perception and self-perception of China's role and identity; A quest for socialist internationalism
• Sommario/riassunto: Annotation