The South China Sea Dispute And Peaceful Resolution

The South China Sea dispute is the one about which concerning the ownership of sovereignty of Nansha islands and the division of territorial waters, continental shelf and exclusive economic zone. Each of the "Six countries and Seven aspects" that refer to China, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and China Taiwan has been asserting that it has exclusively the possession of the zone. Because of involving in complicated interests and shortage of the efficient problem-solving regimes, though it is only about decades from beginning, the situation has been worsened by the possible interference of foreign power. The dispute and confrontation often happened among "Six countries and Seven aspects". In 2002, China and ASEAN reached to an agreement called Declaration on the conduct of parties in the South China Sea, the conditions for institutionalization are primarily formed, but the reality in fact is not optimistic. The concept of "setting aside dispute and pursuing joint development" advanced by Chinese government met with the acknowledgement of ASEAN, however, it must fight against hardship in reality.The thesis tries to probe into the problem of institutionalization of South China Sea Dispute-solving in the view of international regimes, this has theoretical and reality significance. In order to make this subject clear, the thesis will be divided into five parts as follows:In the first part, the author will introduce the subject of this study and its value in the theory and in practice, present the current academic situation of the subject, discuss the thought of the study, and finally lay out the whole writing arrangement.In the second part, it mainly includes the theory of international regimes. The author will introduce and analyze the definition, characteristics, function and limitation of the theory. Then the four forms of inter-state collaboration and the function of theory will be discussed, especially the assurance game related to the dispute. Apart from solving inside problems such as the interchange of information, the author thinks the exterior factors must be taken into consideration. In fact, international regimes put more and more important influence upon international affairs and thus become a significant factor which promoted greatly the absolute gains of each country.In the third part, the focus is put on the historical evolutionary track of the South China Sea dispute and the Nansha policy of each related country. First, the article will illustrate the strategic value of the area and the dispute from geo-strategic, resource-strategic and impact upon the energy transportation views. Second, the beginning and development of dispute will be reviewed. Finally, the author will analyze the policy of each related country and make a comparison.In the fourth part, it mainly explores and evaluates the solving method of the dispute. The author thinks the method includes two parts: bilateral consultation and dialogue, multilateral consultation and dialogue. After analyzing the characteristics and cause of the method, the author reaches to a conclusion that it belongs to the formal self-implement Agreement which is characterized by self-implement, non-compulsion and fragility. Then the author evaluates the method from four aspects.In the fifth part, the article probes into the construction of the regimes of problem-solving. It mainly analyzes the probability, the advantageous factors and the restricted factors of the method. Besides, the article also discusses the way choice of construction.At last, based on the summary of the content, the author will have a forecast of the development of the method.