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More significance than value: Explaining developments in the Sino-Japanese contest over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands

Abstract:
The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands are presently the focus of a dangerous contest between the People’s Republic of China and Japan, one that even now has the potential to spark a military conflict that could draw in the United States. How has this come about? Whether seen from a strategic, economic, or historical perspective, the value of the islands does not appear to merit the risks of such a contest. Consequently, what has driven the escalation is not anything particular to the islands themselves, but rather the increasing symbolic stakes attached to them, their role within the domestic politics of both sides, and the measures each side has taken to shore up its respective claims.
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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.26153/tsw/6668

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Politics & Int Relations
Oxford college:
St Anne's College
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Author


Publisher:
Texas National Security Network
Journal:
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Volume:
2
Issue:
4
Pages:
11–37
Publication date:
2019-09-03
Acceptance date:
2019-07-30
DOI:
EISSN:
2576-1153
ISSN:
2576-1021


Language:
English
Pubs id:
pubs:1036423
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uuid:4f47ed86-db42-44e2-9269-1516a2a7e017
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1036423
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2019-07-31
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