An excellent interdisciplinary work that throws new light on maritime security issues in Northeast Asia. Its focus on the opposing maritime policy imperatives of China, Japan and South Korea, and the tensions between these countries in the maritime domain is particularly useful.
Professor Sam Bateman,Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong
In this careful examination of how East Asian states perceive the sea as site of both threat and opportunity, Wirth not only provides an invaluable resource for students of regional politics and security studies; he also sheds light on the crucial role played by the sea in legitimizing the modern state and securing its future.
Professor Philip Steinberg,Durham University / IBRU: Centre for Borders Research
Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics
Grounded in extensive empirical research, Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics addresses the major issues of geopolitics in the region that have been and will continue to shape the international politics of the Asia-Pacific for years to come. Covering the nation-states of China, Japan and South Korea, it includes an examination of the key island disputes, as well as analysis of the North KoreaSouth Korea clashes in the Yellow Sea, controversies in Japans relations with both Koreas and the so-called history disputes, including recognition of World War II atrocities across the region. In doing so, this book explores a range of themes from the ecological environment to the globalized nature of shipping and therein links the East Asian maritime sphere directly to the dynamics and developments in the domestic politics of each country. Thus, it serves to demonstrate how several controversial debates in the international politics of the Asia-Pacific are ultimately and inextricably intertwined.
A timely contribution that furthers our understanding of contemporary politics of the Asia-Pacific, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, international relations and the Asia-Pacific region in general.
Christian Wirth is University Lecturer at Leiden University and an Adjunct Research Fellow at Griffith University. Having worked on East Asian politics for over ten years, he has published in journals such as Political Geography, Geopolitics and the Pacific Review.
Asias Transformations
Edited by Mark Selden, Cornell University, USA
The books in this series explore the political, social, economic and cultural consequences of Asia's transformations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The series emphasizes the tumultuous interplay of local, national, regional and global forces as Asia bids to become the hub of the world economy. While focusing on the contemporary, it also looks back to analyse the antecedents of Asias contested rise.
This series comprises several strands:
Asias Transformations
45. The San Francisco System and Its Legacies
Continuation, Transformation and Historical Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
Edited by Kimie Hara
46. Transnational Trajectories in East Asia
Nation, Citizenship and Region
Edited by Yasemin Nuhog-lu Soysal
47. The Politics of Protection Rackets in Post-New Order Indonesia
Coercive Capital, Authority and Street Politics
Ian Douglas Wilson
48. Coal Mining Women in Japan
Heavy Burdens
Donald W. Burton
49. The Changing Face of Korean Cinema
1960 to 2015
Brian Yecies and Aegyung Shim
50. The Making of Modern Korea
Adrian Buzo
51. Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics
Securing the Seas, Securing the State
Christian Wirth
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