Sea Power And National Security

Sea power is an important variable in international relations. The history of sea power includes everything in the process of nation's rise by means of ocean. Compared with traditional theories of sea power in developed countries, the mentality of sea power in developing country has its own characters. Improving navy and air force and exploiting oceanic resources within jurisdiction are indispensable contents in the development of national sea power. However, the core of sea power in developing country is to take good advantage of ocean to participate in global industry division actively and break away from the status of "peripheralization".This dissertation takes IPE as a method of interpreting the transition of maritime security in Southeast Asia from conflict to cooperation. The study focused on the reasons that explain why the maritime conflicts in this region are low intensity and why the parties involved in the conflicts choose peaceful management. This dissertation draws special attention to the impact of both internationalization and domestic politics on the way of these states managed their regional relations. The study examines the interactions between international and domestic factors, political and economic factors, and reciprocal actions of the members involved in the conflicts under the structural function of international systems.This dissertation argues that nation-building and natural resource scarcity are the reasons for the maritime conflicts in Southeast Asia. There are two contradictions among these countries, one is the nation-building of these states intruded into the domain possessed by other countries previously, the other is the sovereignty claims proposed by these nation-building-states is overlapped according to the Third United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea. Outward-orientation development strategy is the internal cause for the status quo of low intensity and the transition from conflict...