Suggested Reading List

South China Sea

What Has China’s Lawfare Achieved in the South China Sea?
Christian Schultheiss
ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023
The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia
Bill Hayton
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014

What’s at Stake in the South China Sea? Geographical and Geopolitical Considerations
Clive Schofield
In Beyond Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea: Legal Frameworks for the Joint Development of Hydrocarbon Resources, edited by Robert Beckman, Ian Townsend-Gault, Clive Schofield, Tara Davenport, and Leonardo Bernard, 11–46.
Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, 2013


West Philippine Sea

"Archipelagic Spratlys”: China’s Desperate Attempt to Preserve Expansionist Policy?
Henry S. Bensurto Jr.
In Peaceful Maritime Engagement in East Asia and the Pacific Region, edited by  James Kraska, Ronan Long, and Myron H. Nordquist
Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2023

Working Together to Secure Our Seas: A Primer on Philippine Maritime Zones
Gilberto G. B. Asuque
Quezon City: Foundation for the National Interest, 2021


The South China Sea Arbitration
Alfredo C. Robles, Jr.
De La Salle University (DLSU) Publishing House, 2019

Rock Solid: How the Philippines Won Its Maritime Case against China
Marites Danguilan Vitug
Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2018

The West Philippine Sea: The Territorial and Maritime Jurisdiction Disputes from a Filipino Perspective; a Primer
Aileen S. P. Baviera and Jay Batongbacal
Quezon City: University of the Philippines Asian Center, 2013


Maritime Security

What Is Maritime Security?
Christian Bueger
Marine Policy 53 (March 2015): 159–164

Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea
Natalie Klein
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011

Law of the Sea

The International Law of the Sea
Yoshifumi Tanaka
4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Law of the Sea: A Policy Primer
John Burgess, Lucia Foulkes, Philip Jones, Matt Merighi, Stephen Murray, and Jack Whitacre, eds.
Medford, Massachusetts: Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 2017