Foreword by Stein Tønnesson
Introduction: Strategic Challenges and Escalating Power Rivalry in the South China Sea - Scott N. Romaniuk and Nong Hong
1. Between Competition and War: Complex Security Overlay and the South China Sea - Joshua Hastey and Scott N. Romaniuk
2. The South China Sea as an Echo Chamber of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy - Scott N. Romaniuk and Tobias Burgers
Part 1: Claimants of the Contested South China Sea
3. China’s Security Interests and Strategies in the South China Sea - Li Yang
4. Taiwan’s South China Sea Policy under the Tsai Administration - Yann-huei Song
5. Vietnam and the East Sea in Its Strategic Thinking -Đỗ Thanh Hải and Nguyễn Thị Linh
6. The Philippines and the South China Sea Dispute: Duterte’s Hedging Approach with China and the United States - Rommel C. Banlaoi
7. Competition, Contention, and Cooperation in the South China Sea: The Malaysian Perspective - Sumathy Permal
Part 2: Non-Claimants in Southeast Asia
8. A Wary Warrior: Indonesia’s “Soft-Assertiveness” in the South China Sea - Senia Febrica and Scott N. Romaniuk
9. The South China Sea Dispute: Regional Integration, Status Ad Quem, and Singapore’s Position - Hui-Yi Katherine Tseng
10. Cambodia’s South China Sea Policy: From ASEAN Aligned to Echoing Chinese Clientism - Veasna Var
11. ASEAN’s Involvement in the South China Sea Disputes: The Economics-Security Conundrum - Mingjiang Li and YingHui Lee
Part 3: Quadrilateral Security Dialogue States
12. The United States and the South China Sea Question - John Callahan
13. Japan’s Security Interests and Strategies in the South China Sea - Masafumi Iida
14. Australia’s Geopolitics and the South China Sea - Leszek Buszynski
15. India and the South China Sea Crucible: Cautious Inclinations of an Extra-Regional “Leading Power” - Sourabh Gupta
Part 4: Non-Claimants in Europe and Eurasia
16. Britain’s Pivot to Asia: The Big Picture - Ian Park and Kun-Chin Lin
17. Balancing and Hedging: The Two Levels of Russia’s Behaviour in the South China Sea - Alexander Korolev
18. South Korea and the South China Sea: A Middle-Power Model for Practical Policies? - Sukjoon Yoon
Conclusion: Looking over the Horizon – Prospects for Settlement of the South China Sea Dispute - Gordon Houlden