Navigating East Asian Maritime Conflicts: Technological Change, Environmental Challenges, Global and Regional Responses

As technological development and diffusion have greatly increased the resources states can recover from maritime space, the stakes of these conflicts have grown. Nowhere is this clearer than in East Asia. This book examines how technological change and diffusion impact East Asian maritime conflicts, and approaches for conflict management and resolution.

Paul Midford is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Global and Transcultural Studies at Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama Japan.

Jennifer Bailey is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.

Katja Levy is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.

Espen Moe is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.