On dangerous ground : America's century in the South China Sea / Gregory B. Poling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poling, Gregory B., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law.

South China Sea--History.

South China Sea.

Spratly Islands--International status.

Spratly Islands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

In this work, Gregory B. Poling evaluates US interests in the world's most complex and dangerous maritime disputes: American involvement in the South China Sea. Providing a deep history of America's geostrategy in the region from the late 19th century to present day, he focuses on how the dispute intersected with the longstanding US commitment to freedom of the seas and its evolving alliance network in Asia. With a heavy emphasis on decisions made by policymakers in Washington, Manila, and other Southeast Asian capitals, this book not only provides the most comprehensive account yet of America's history in the South China Sea, but it also demonstrates how that history should inform US national security policy in one of the most geopolitically important ocean areas in the world.

Contents:

Seeds of discord (1800-1951)

America and the free seas, Part I (1930-1966)

Settling on dangerous ground (1954-1974)

The Great Alliance debate (1975-1979)

America and the free seas, Part II (1967-1982)

Hard power and people power (1979-1992)

Diplomacy disappointed (1992-2008)

Raising the stakes (2009-2014)

Arbitration and artificial Islands (2014-2016)

A course to steer (2016-2021).

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-763400-1

0-19-763401-X

0-19-763399-4