Peer-reviewed articlePublished in United Kingdom · Academic
Shelved sovereignty or invalid sovereignty? The South China Sea negotiations, 1992–2016
Jiye Kim, Daniel Druckman · The Pacific Review, 2018
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The authors compare COC negotiation texts and find sovereignty consistently deferred. They relate this pattern to changing Chinese claims, stronger bargaining power and the enduring influence of shelving disputes since Deng Xiaoping’s era.