Island Disputes and Maritime Regime Building in East Asia: Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Min Gyo Koo
English | PDF | 2010 | 217 Pages | ISBN : 0387896694 | 3 MB
islands has emotional content far beyond any material significance because giving way on the island issue to Japan would be considered as once again compromising the sovereignty over the whole Korean peninsula. For Japan, the Dokdo issue may lack the same degree of strategic and economic values and emotional appeal as the other two territorial disputes that Japan has had with Russia and the two Chinas – namely the Northern Territories/Southern Kurile Islands and the Senkaku Islands, respectively. Nevertheless, fishing resources and the maritime boundary issues became highly salient with the introduction of UNCLOS.
