1st Edition
Solution Protocols to Festering Island Disputes ‘Win-Win' Solutions for the Diaoyu / Senkaku Islands
Prologue
Mari Katayanagi
1. Introduction
2. Context: churn in the Asia-Pacific
3. The China‒Japan relationship through the ages
4. The Diaoyu/Senkaku islands saga
5. Worth nothing, yet worth everything: why countries (may) go to war over small islands
6. A genealogy of creative governance
7. Splitting
8. Sharing
9. Suppressing (or suspending) sovereignty
10. Single sovereignty but shared jurisdiction
11. Shelving (or setting aside) dispute while developing
12. Swapping and selling
13. Status quo (or stalemate or standstill)
14. Speculating
15. Conclusion
Epilogue I: The Diaoyu/Senkaku islands dispute and future development of Sino-Japanese relations
Liu Jiangyong
Epilogue II: Proposing solutions to the Senkaku/Diaoyu affair
Akihiro Iwashita
Biography
Godfrey Baldacchino is Pro-Rector (International Development) and Professor of Sociology at the University of Malta and UNESCO Co-Chair (Island Studies and Sustainability) at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. He is also President of the International Small Islands Studies Association, Chair of the Scientific Board of RETI (The Network of Island Universities) and Founding Executive Editor of Island Studies Journal.
Christian Fleury is research fellow at the University of Caen-Normandie, France
Adam Grydehoj is Director of Island Dynamics and Executive Editor of Island Studies Journal.
Pamila Gupta is associate professor at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Steven Hillebrink is with the Directorate for Constitutional Affairs, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Affairs, the Netherlands
Akihiro Iwashita is professor of history and area/Slavic studies, University of Hokkaido, Japan
Henry Johnson is professor, University of Otago, New Zealand and hails from Jersey, Channel Islands.
Mari Katayanagi is professor at the graduate school for international development and cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan
Bjarne Lindstrom is former director of the Statistical Agency for the Aland Islands
Liu Jiangyong is professor of international relations, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
David McIntyre is emeritus professor of history at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Elisabeth Naucler was the single member of parliament representing the autonomous Aland Islands in the Parliament of Finland (2007-2015)
Peter van Aert lectures at the National University of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Jouke van Dijk is professor at the Department of Economic Geography at the University of Groningen and Director of the Waddenacademie, The Netherlands
