Abstract
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">The territorial disputes in the South China Sea have become the major flashpoints of both potential and existing conflicts in Asia. With claimant states from both China and member states of ASEAN, the aggressive military gestures of the claimant states have led to a myriad number of confrontations throughout the years. The inevitability of ASEAN being in the center of the disputes, have led many critics towards the regional organization on its capacity to establish any significant changes towards the dynamics of the South China Sea disputes. This research argues the opposite of the existing academic literatures, which views ASEAN as not an ideal actor in facing the fast paced dynamics of the South China Sea conflicts. It argues of ASEAN’s ability and capacity to persuade China into some forms of compromises into its policy, reflected through its defined position of a conflict management institution throughout the South China Sea crisis. The research thus argues how there is an existing misperception of ASEAN’s conflict management endeavors with the occurrence of China’s recent assertive gestures, ASEAN’s ability in instilling cooperative values and confidence building measures among conflicted states, and relevance of ASEAN’s multilateralism measures despite of China’s historical stance of bilateral means of conflict resolution in regards to the South China Sea conflict.</span></p><div id="_mcePaste" class="mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;"><!--EndFragment--></div>
Highlights
With decades of tensions between China and the claimant states of ASEAN members, the South China Sea remains one of the most major flashpoint for potential conflicts in Asia
The inevitability of ASEAN being in the center of the disputes, have led many critics towards the regional organization on its capacity to establish any significant changes towards the dynamics of the South China Sea disputes
This research argues the opposite of the existing academic literatures, which views ASEAN as not an ideal actor in facing the fast paced dynamics of the South China Sea conflicts
Summary
With decades of tensions between China and the claimant states of ASEAN members, the South China Sea remains one of the most major flashpoint for potential conflicts in Asia. Several most prominent disputes in the South China Sea include China’s seizure of the Paracel Islands in 1974, the 1988 deadly clash that killed 70 Vietnamese sailors, and the 1995 Chinese occupation of the Philippines-claimed Mischief Reef (Fravel, 2011). These series of events have led ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) to take part by managing tensions in the region. This research shall conclude the opposite, in which ASEAN’s endeavors in establishing regional order towards the case of South China Sea have been progressive, and how ASEAN still acts as a great potential actor for the South China Sea conflict management
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