NBR has just released a new report that assesses the energy and geopolitical factors involved with maritime security in Asia. This report emerged from the three-year study, "Maritime Energy Resources in Asia:
Opportunities for Joint Development," which is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Asia Security Initiative.

The full report is free to access for a limited time. A link to download the report and a summary are below.

"Maritime Energy Resources in Asia: Energy and Geopolitics" (NBR Special Report, December 2011)

By Clive Schofield, Nick Owen, Zhao Hong, Dini Djalal, May Tan-Mullins, Gong Yingchun, Atsuko Kanehara, Ian Storey, and Tran Truong Thuy

Link: http://m.nbr.org/uYdweJ

SUMMARY

Tensions have escalated in recent months among the coastal states of East and Southeast Asia over the broad offshore areas that are subject to competing maritime claims. These developments have featured increasingly robust "diplomatic" exchanges, including multiple claims and counterclaims being lodged with the United Nations, as well as confrontations at sea.

In the new NBR Special Report, "Maritime Energy Resources in Asia:
Energy and Geopolitics," a team of international scholars, led by principal investigator Clive Schofield (University of Wollongong), examines the energy and geopolitical drivers influencing the maritime jurisdictional disputes in the East China Sea, South China Sea, and Gulf of Thailand.

Essays in the volume include an exploration of the value of hydrocarbon resources in the South China Sea, an assessment of joint development activities in the Gulf of Thailand, and a sobering exploration of the changing balance of military power in Asia and the implications for maritime disputes.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

"Maritime Energy Resources in Asia: Rising Tensions over Critical Marine Resources," by Clive Schofield

"Disputed South China Sea Oil in Context," by Nick Owen

"Energy Security Concerns: The View from China and Southeast Asia," by Zhao Hong

"Indonesia: Domestic Transformation and the Implications for Maritime Energy Security in Southeast Asia," by Dini Djalal

"The Implications of Seabed Energy Resource
Development: The Gulf of Thailand Case," by May Tan-Mullins

"The Development and Current Status of Maritime Disputes in the East China Sea," by Gong Yingchun

"Provisional Arrangements as Equitable Legal Management of Maritime Delimitation Disputes in the East China Sea," by Atsuko Kanehara

"Asia's Changing Balance of Military Power:
Implications for the South China Sea Dispute," by Ian Storey

"The Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea and Developing Maritime Energy Resources," by Tran Truong Thuy

Read Now: http://m.nbr.org/uYdweJ

Tracy Timmons-Gray
The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) Seattle, WA

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