This book grows out of a multi-year research project by the NTNU Japan Program and its Policy Study series with funding obtained from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Education and the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and residual funding obtained from the International Relations Institute of the Faculty of International Studies at Meiji Gakuin University.
Part I: Framework.
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: The Law of the
Sea and its Relevance for Maritime Conflicts in East Asia.- Part II: Security
Dimensions.
Chapter 3: Unmanned maritime platforms and the undersea struggle
in the South China.
Chapter 4: Low Intensity Maritime Conflicts, Escalation
Management and Technology.
Chapter 5: Military Automation, Robotics, and
Maritime Security, Understanding New Dynamics in Conflict Escalation.- Part
III: East Asian Maritime Competition and the Arctic.
Chapter 6: The Impact
of Russias Ukraine Invasion on the Arctic-From Cooperation to Conflict?.-
Chapter 7: Chinas Arctic Strategy, From Follow-up to Creative
Involvement.
Chapter 8: Japans Arctic Strategy, Countering East Asian
Maritime Insecurity and Competition with China.- Part IV: Seabed Mining.-
Chapter 9: Rare and Infinite The Minami-torishima Semi-infinite Rare Earth
Elements and the historical dynamics of Deep-Sea Mining.
Chapter 10: Japans
Seabed Mining as a Cause and Result of East Asian Maritime Tensions.
Chapter
11: Limited semi-infinity Japan's deepsea resources against the backdrop of
China's rare earth.- Part V: Fishing and Renewable Energy.
Chapter 12:
China's Digitalised Fishery Reform and Its Implications on the East Asian
Maritime Order.
Chapter 13: Japan's New Whaling Policy, Marine Management in
an Evolving Security and Technological Setting.
Chapter 14: Offshore Wind in
Japan, Energy Production and Conflict Reduction?.- Part VI: Conclusions.-
Chapter 15: Conclusions.
Paul Midford is Professor of Political Science, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan.
Jennifer L. Bailey is Professor of Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway.
Katja Levy is Associate Professor of Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway.
Espen Moe is Professor of Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway.
