1st Edition

Chinese Constructions of Sovereignty and the East China Sea Conflict

By Czeslaw Tubilewicz Copyright 2020
244 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book analyses Chinese social constructions of sovereignty in the context of the East China Sea conflict. It specifically explores China and Taiwan’s overlapping cross-Strait sovereignty claims and their domestic debates and policies towards the territorial dispute. Providing an up-to-date discussion of the East China Sea conflict, the book challenges conventional assumptions regarding... Read more

1. Westphalia in IR Theories 

2. Perspectives on Chinese Sovereignty 

3. Productions of One China in the East China Sea 

4. State-led Sovereignty Constructions in Taiwan 

5. Sovereignty Constructions in China 

6. Public Opinion and Taiwan’s Domestic Sovereignty Contests 

7. External Actors 

8. Demise of the One China Sovereignty Project 

9. Politics of Sovereignty Constructions

Biography



Czeslaw Tubilewicz is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations, the University of Adelaide. He has authored Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe (Routledge, 2007) and edited Critical Issues in Contemporary China (Routledge, 2006 and 2017).