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China's New Maritime Legal Enforcement Strategy in the South China Sea: Legal Warfare and an Emerging Contest Over Norms at Sea

Bentley, Scott
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1352918934

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2012, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Political Science (Arts and Sciences).
China has over the past several years begun to implement a new Maritime Law Enforcement (MLE) strategy in the South China Sea. This new MLE strategy utilizes vessels from China's rapidly expanding MLE agencies, reinforced by PLA naval and other military assets, to assert the country's claims against other Southeast Asian claimants, particularly Vietnam and the Philippines. A noticeably dramatic increase in the number of incidents at sea in disputed areas has occurred alongside the implementation of this new strategy, escalating tensions to dangerous levels. China's MLE strategy is an evolution in thinking from previous PLA doctrine, and is in many ways the operationalized extension of concepts such as 'legal warfare'. The employment of the strategy not only risks upsetting China's relations with its neighbouring countries, but may also be suggestive of an emerging contest between China and the US over international norms at sea.
Takaaki Suzuki, Dr. (Committee Chair)
Carlyle Thayer, Dr. (Committee Member)
Andrew Ross, Dr. (Committee Member)
120 p.
Asian Studies; International Relations; Political Science
United States; China; People's Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN); Maritime Law Enforcement (MLE); South China Sea; Spratly Islands; International Law of the Sea (UNCLOS); Freedom of Navigation (FON)

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  • Bentley, S. (2012). China's New Maritime Legal Enforcement Strategy in the South China Sea: Legal Warfare and an Emerging Contest Over Norms at Sea [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1352918934

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bentley, Scott. China's New Maritime Legal Enforcement Strategy in the South China Sea: Legal Warfare and an Emerging Contest Over Norms at Sea. 2012. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1352918934.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bentley, Scott. "China's New Maritime Legal Enforcement Strategy in the South China Sea: Legal Warfare and an Emerging Contest Over Norms at Sea." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1352918934

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