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The South China Sea and Asian Regionalism

A Critical Realist Perspective

By: Thanh-Dam Truong,Knio Karim

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The South China Sea and Asian Regionalism

A Critical Realist Perspective

By: Thanh-Dam Truong,Knio Karim

This book offers an innovative approach to the analysis of the current crisis in the South China Sea. Moving beyond the spirit of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the mechanisms of which are limited to physical geography, it demonstrates how epistemological insights from the field of critical realist philosophy can reveal the importance of cultural and structural conditioning processes in social interactions, processes which shape the conditions for the emergence of crisis points along a spectrum of conflict and cooperation. The potential for conflict resolution and the emergence of new regions in Pacific Asia much depends on the nature of such interactions at many levels (political-economic, semiotic and cultural) based on perceptions of what constitutes the "common" versus a Sinicised version of "Lebensraum".

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114

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Springer

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ISBN 10

3319135511

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9783319135519

The European Union's Mediterranean Policy: Model or Muddle?

A New Institutionalist Perspective

By: K. Knio

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The European Union's Mediterranean Policy: Model or Muddle?

A New Institutionalist Perspective

By: K. Knio

By analysing case studies through the lens of new constructivist Institutionalist perspective, this book sheds new light on the failure of EU policies in the Mediterranean. It suggests that these failures are the result of problems at the very heart of EU policy-making which clearly privilege economic concerns over social concerns.

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