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Thi Lan Anh Nguyen

Bio: Thi Lan Anh Nguyen is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Exclusive economic zone & Sovereignty. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 4 citations.

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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the various layers that have contributed to the current complexity of the South China Sea dispute and highlight the challenges preventing the parties from reaching a resolution of the dispute in the near future.
Abstract: As with most territorial disputes, the ones that emanate from the South China Sea are extremely complex and multi-layered. The contested status of the territorial features in the sea are rooted in the region’s deep colonial history on one hand, and the legal regime of islands in accordance with international law on the other. The geostrategic importance of these features and the presence of rich natural resources around them have culminated in uneasy tensions in the South China Sea region between multiple states that claim sovereignty over the features. This has been fuelled by domestic politics and the rise of nationalism within certain claimant states. This chapter aims at providing an overview of the various layers that have contributed to the current complexity of the South China Sea dispute. It also highlights the challenges preventing the parties from reaching a resolution of the dispute in the near future. To arrive at this, it will first discuss the early history of the region in the colonial period. It then examines the influence of different factors, such as international law, economics, the geo-strategic significance of features, and the domestic situations in claimant states that trigger the South China Sea dispute.

7 citations


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Journal ArticleDOI
01 Oct 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that Indonesia's IUU fishing policy enhances the complexity of maritime security in the South China Sea which ultimately leads to the strengthening of political realism behaviour among countries whom potential to conflict with Indonesia in the context of IUU Fishing in Natuna waters.
Abstract: The agenda of Jokowi’s administration demands a strong measure to protect maritime security and sovereignty of Indonesia; especially its national sovereignty and maritime security in the vast boundary of Indonesian territorial waters. However, the implementation faces challenges related to violations of sovereignty in the territorial waters. One of them was due to the rampant illegal fishing activities that threaten the sufficiency of the fish stock. Exposed to such threat, Indonesia’s commitment to secure its maritime sovereignty was strongly projected by the emergence of a ‘Sink the Vessels’ policy by the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP), chaired by Susi Pudjiastuti since 2014. In the context of the South China Sea polemics which shows the relationship with the territorial waters of Indonesia in Natuna, the policy has significant implication to the South China Sea maritime geopolitics. The question is what the implications of the ‘Sink the Vessels’ policy toward maritime geopolitics in the South China Sea. Using structuration and geopolitics approaches, this article argues that Indonesia’s IUU Fishing policy enhances the complexity of maritime security in the South China Sea which ultimately leads to the strengthening of political realism behaviour among countries whom potential to conflict with Indonesia in the context of IUU Fishing in Natuna waters.

12 citations

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TL;DR: The South China Sea is the world’s busiest and most important waterway, serving as the crossroads of global capitalism and the connective tissue of Southeast Asia as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The South China Sea is the world’s busiest and most important waterway, serving as the crossroads of global capitalism and the connective tissue of Southeast Asia. With shipping routes, underwater resources, and hundreds of small islands claimed by Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and others, the area stands among the world’s most contested regions. Since 1945, the United States Navy has dominated the area, but that hegemony is now in question as the People’s Republic of China (PRC) becomes more assertive as a rising power. In efforts to justify their clashing claims over the region, the United States and the PRC have launched campaigns against each other, producing a rhetorical crisis that may foreshadow war. To try to make sense of the rhetoric driving this crisis, the first part of this essay unpacks some of the colorful history of the South China Sea—its legacy of rogues, pirates, opium wars, and so on—to argue that it has always been less of a governed and ordered place and more of a transitory and heterodox space crisscrossed by overlapping intentions, designs, and dreams. From this perspective, any nation’s claims to sovereignty are fictions that aspire to be constitutive, albeit by erasing the constitutive claims of others. The second section of the essay then addresses the PRC’s use of “traumatized nationalism” to advocate for its rights in the South China Sea, while the third section tackles the United States’ use of “belligerent humanitarianism” to justify its actions. The essay concludes with an appeal for a postnational version of shared governance, called for in the name of defending the global commons from the militarized encroachments of nation-states.

9 citations

Book ChapterDOI
08 Sep 2019
TL;DR: The South China Sea has become fractious due to its abundance of resources, rising animosity between states, and China's assertive stance, which loops most of this sea into its territory.
Abstract: The South China Sea has trapped the gaze of the globe onto its waters. As the risk of confrontation lingers on, military buildup is assisting the protection of the economic development of certain key players within this territorial dispute. Composed of an abundance of resources, rising animosity between states, and China’s assertive stance, which loops most of this sea into its territory, the waters of the South China Sea have become fractious. The semi-enclosed sea is located at the foot of China’s southern border, squeezed in between the east of Vietnam and the west of the Philippines, and touches the northern borders of Brunei and Malaysia. Located centrally within Southeast Asia, the South China Sea is the gravitational center of East Asian economic growth (Buszynski 2015: 2). It acts as the geographical channel connecting Northeast and Southeast Asia. The overlapping claims of several governments, including China and Vietnam among others, to territorial sovereignty and maritime rights constitute the disputes in the South China Sea. China delineates its claims in this sea by its nine-dash line, which envelops 90 percent of it into its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Situated in these waters are the Paracels and the Spratlys, two uninhabited island groups, the jurisdiction over which—along with the related waters—is disputed by the various claimants involved. China’s expanding presence in this sea has been met with growing assertiveness from other claimants, such as Vietnam. Resource accumulation and the concern over sovereignty have generated tension, which revolves heavily around the South China Sea—challenging the security and inhibiting the development of the Asia-Pacific region at large. Additionally, the regional maritime dispute has garnered international attention and brought overseas stakeholders in. The involvement of the United States (US) through its “Pivot to Asia,” a strategy which shifts its foreign policy focus to Asia through renewed diplomatic engagement and military redeployment there, has exacerbated the already volatile atmosphere of the region. Through the US’ amplified role, the waters

2 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
01 Jan 2022
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors argue that a regional actors-led institutional mechanism consisting of a core and integrated periphery may provide the required formalized space to govern the SCS through clearly defined rules and legally binding regulations drawn both from the regimes that exist in the region and from the international conventions.
Abstract: Territorial disputes in the South China Sea (SCS) over sovereignty, jurisdictional boundaries, and entitlements continue to demand attention from policymakers and analysts. Under the pressure of the intensifying China-US strategic rivalry, the region has also become a primary theater for military and political muscle-flexing. Maintaining regional peace and development has therefore become a greater urgency. In this article, we argue that a regional actors-led institutional mechanism consisting of a core and integrated periphery may provide the required formalized space to govern the SCS through clearly defined rules and legally binding regulations drawn both from the regimes that exist in the region and from the international conventions. We analyze the conditions behind and implications for the formal institutionalization in the SCS modeled after the Arctic Council. This article claims that a new thinking on regional maritime governance in the SCS is now a strategic imperative. 关于主权、管辖范围和权利的南海(SCS)领土争端一直需要决策者和分析师的关注。在中美战略竞争加强的压力下,该区域也成为了展示军事和政治实力的主战场。保持区域和平和发展一事因此变得更为紧迫。本文中,我们主张,一个由区域行动者领导的制度机制(由一个核心且统一的边界组成)可能通过从南海区域制度和国际协定中提炼明确界定的规则和具有法律效力的规制,进而提供治理南海所需的正式空间。我们分析了北极理事会对南海正式制度化建模的条件和意义。本文主张,关于南海区域海事治理的新思维是一种战略必要。 Las disputas territoriales en el Mar de China Meridional (SCS) sobre la soberanía, los límites jurisdiccionales y los derechos continúan exigiendo la atención de los analistas y los formuladores de políticas. Bajo la presión de la creciente rivalidad estratégica entre China y Estados Unidos, la región también se ha convertido en un escenario principal para la demostración de fuerza militar y política. Por lo tanto, mantener la paz y el desarrollo regionales se ha convertido en una mayor urgencia. En este artículo, argumentamos que un mecanismo institucional liderado por actores regionales que consta de una periferia central e integrada puede proporcionar el espacio formalizado requerido para gobernar el SCS a través de reglas claramente definidas y regulaciones legalmente vinculantes extraídas tanto de los regímenes que existen en la región como de los de la región. de las convenciones internacionales. Analizamos las condiciones y las implicaciones para la institucionalización formal en el SCS siguiendo el modelo del Consejo Ártico. Este artículo afirma que una nueva forma de pensar sobre la gobernanza marítima regional en el SCS es ahora un imperativo estratégico.