The Growing Impact of Territorial Conflicts

in Maritime East Asia

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Prof. Peter DuttonProf. Peter Dutton

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Paracel

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Tonkin

Gulf

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Thailand

Gulf

What should be normative?

Should disputes over

un-delineated, non-sovereign

water space be resolved by

coercion and

displays of power?

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Is it important to keep East Asia a maritime system? Why?

Should we accept the SCS as a Chinese strait?

Will the liberal maritime order survive a continentalist challenge?

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Cooperation among major maritime states is required to

1) Reinforce and defend global maritime rules and norms

2) Preserve freedom of access on which free commerce depends