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This book examines the foreign and security policies adopted by China and Japan since the 1970s in their competition over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.　 It charts the development of a dispute that has become a potential flashpoint for conflict between the two countries. The book explains that while increasing nationalism in both China and Japan helps to fuel and sustain the dispute, a key factor is that the leaderships in both countries find competition over the islands to be a convenient vehicle supporting their wider approach to foreign and security policy, which is becoming increasingly assertive and potentially belligerent.

This book examines the foreign and security policies adopted by China and Japan since the 1970s in their competition over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. It charts the development of a dispute that has become a potential flashpoint for conflict between the two countries.

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CONTENTS 

Acknowledgements 
Abbreviations 
CHAPTER ONE: Contested Territory 

The dispute: what it is and why it matters 
An expression of competitive politics in East Asia 
Mining data on the dispute 
Legal, historical and geographical evidence brought to sovereignty claim 
Japan’s official position 
The PRC’s official position 
The US official position 
CHAPTER TWO: Neo-Classical Realism and Managed Strategic Confrontation 

Theorizing foreign policy
Neoclassical realism 
China and Japan as ‘useful rivals’: managed strategic confrontation 

A focus on nationalism 
Foreign and Security Policy Actors 
CHAPTER THREE: The Islands’ Economic and Strategic Value 

Economic value of the islands: EEZ and resource exploitation
Strategic value of the islands 
The islands and China’s growing maritime power 
The islands and Japan’s shift towards greater activism 
CHAPTER FOUR: The Cold War Phase of the Dispute 
1970s?Scrambling for oil or global recognition? 
The islands and the reversion of Okinawa (1971) 
The islands, diplomatic normalisation (1972) and the Treaty of Peace and Friendship (1978) 
Analysis: the islands are neither a priority, nor are they in reach 
The islands, US ambivalence and the Taiwan issue 
The islands and peripheral Chinese nationalism 

1980s: Bilateral tensions and quiet around the islands 
CHAPTER FIVE: The Post-Cold War Phase of the Dispute 

1990 and 1996 cycles of the islands crisis: bilateral restraint 
2004-2005 cycle of the islands crisis: Beijing sanctions limited domestic activism 
2010 cycle: the issue becomes highly politicized 
2012 cycle: Japan’s transfer of ownership 
Crisis-management mechanisms, the 4-Point Agreement (2014) and the resumption of high-level communication 
CHAPTER SIX: Symbolic Value of the Islands 

An endless sporting event: the islands and national identity 
‘It’s PR [Public Relations]’: the islands and diplomacy 191
CHAPTER SEVEN: Conclusion 

Bibliography 

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