Non-Traditional Security Issues and the South China Sea: Shaping a New Framework for Cooperation (Contemporary Issues in the South China Sea)

The region of the South China Sea is vulnerable to natural hazards and marine environmental degradation as well as to piracy, maritime crimes and over-exploitation activities which threaten the security of the surrounding population. This volume explores these non-traditional security issues and discusses the security cooperation and regional approaches that have resulted and which aim to build a peaceful environment and maintain international and regional security and order in the South China Sea region.