Solution Protocols to Festering
Island Disputes
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 winwin 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.
Godfrey Baldacchino is Pro-Rector (International Development) and Professor of Sociology at the University of Malta and UNESCO Co-Chair (Island Studies and Sustainability) at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. He is also President of the International Small Islands Studies Association, Chair of the Scientific Board of RETI (The Network of Island Universities) and Founding Executive Editor of Island Studies Journal.
Solution Protocols to
Festering Island Disputes
WinWin Solutions for the
Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands
Godfrey Baldacchino
With contributions from
Christian Fleury, Adam Grydehj, Pamila Gupta, Steven Hillebrink,
Akihiro Iwashita, Henry Johnson, Mari Katayanagi, Bjarne Lindstrm,
Liu Jiangyong, David McIntyre, Elisabeth Nauclr, Peter van Aert and
Jouke van Dijk
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Contents
MARI KATAYANAGI
LIU JIANGYONG
AKIHIRO IWASHITA
East Asia, with a focus on the East China Sea
The Diaoyu/Senkaku island group, along with neighbouring islands of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, and of China (including Taiwan)
The Diaoyu/Senkaku archipelago, showing its named constituent members
Godfrey Baldacchino is Pro-Rector (International Development) and Professor of Sociology at the University of Malta and UNESCO Co-Chair (Island Studies and Sustainability) at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. He is also President of the International Small Islands Studies Association, Chair of the Scientific Board of RETI (The Network of Island Universities), and Founding Executive Editor of Island Studies Journal.
Christian Fleury has a PhD in geography and is research fellow at ESO Caen (University of Caen-Normandie, France). His research interests concern frontier studies, marine spaces and geopolitical disputes, coastal societies and island laboratories.
Adam Grydehj holds a PhD in ethnology, is the Director of Island Dynamics, lead editor of the Urban Island Studies journal, and a Research Associate at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Pamila Gupta is Associate Professor at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is interested in the contribution of islands to the construction of modernity.
Steven Hillebrink is a Legal Officer at the Directorate for Constitutional Affairs and Legislation of the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Akihiro Iwashita is Professor, History and Area Studies/Slavic Studies, Hokkaido University, Japan. His research focuses on border studies in Eurasia, including Russia, China and Central Asia.
Henry Johnson is Professor, Department of Music, University of Otago, New Zealand. His areas of expertise include Asian studies and the anthropology of Japan. He is originally from Jersey, Channel Islands.
Mari Katayanagi is Professor at the Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan. She has served as Senior Advisor at the Embassy of Japan in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a political advisor at the Office of the High Representative (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and more recently as Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Research Institute.
Bjarne Lindstrm is an economic geographer and former director of the Agency of Statistics and Research in the land Islands (SUB). He is currently working on a senior sub-consultancy for Sweco Society Ltd in Stockholm, Sweden.
Liu Jiangyong is Vice-Director and Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Modern International Relations, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China. His research focuses on Japanese political and foreign policy and international relations in the Asia-Pacific region.
David McIntyre served as Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has a special interest in Pacific island societies and politics.
Elisabeth Nauclr is a Swedish-born jurist and Director General of the land Government (19992006). She was the single Member of Parliament representing the autonomous land Islands in the Parliament of Finland (20072015).
Peter van Aert is a Faculty Member at the Institute for Culture, Society & State, National University of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. His research focuses on migration, cultural configuration and local development.
