A Geopolitical Study On The South China Sea

The dissertation deliberates, analyzes, and expounds the dispute over the South China Sea in the aspects of theory, situation, and countermeasure relative all-sidedly, On the basis of researching theories and analyzing situation, The dissertation forms a logic structure and system which sets up the frame of legal research and thinks over countermeasure in the result.The dissertation is composed of eight Chapters, the main points of the research are as follows: chapter 1, introduction, explains the purpose and significance of the dissertation, engages in a brief review of academic research, narrates its basic conceptions, and presents its research methods. Chapter 2, the discrimination of geopolitics, is a theoretical section, sets forth the basic connotation of geopolitics, studies its theoretical system, and expounds its a distinctive thinking and viewpoint, sizes up the main scope of geopolitical research. It lays a theoretical foundation for deeper studying in the following chapters. Chapter 3, geopolitical environments of the South China Sea, on the basis of theories relating to geopolitical environments, analyzes research scope of the South China Sea, probes into its influence and function, analyzes the geopolitical factors which influence the South China Sea disputes. Chapter 4, geopolitical pattern of the South China Sea, analyzes causes of the South China Sea pattern, narrates its evolution, and China's efforts to defend its sovereignty over the South China Sea during different historical periods, describes some islets and surrounding waters of the South China Sea are occupied by bordering states, as well as its geo-strategic pattern, goes further into geopolitical thoughts of bordering states shaping theirs acts, evaluates the United States and Japan geo-policies, theirs characteristics, and trend to the South China Sea, and theirs influence on the geopolitical pattern of the South China Sea. Chapter 5, geopolitical order of the South China Sea, analyzes coming into existence of the South China Sea order, narrates the evolution of its orders and China's efforts to maintain rights over the South China Sea during different historical periods, expounds our country internal laws to safeguard state sovereignty during different historical periods, describes the course which bordering states have been making and adopting internal laws or government decrees, comments on the negative influence of the marine delimitation unilaterally claimed by the neighboring countries upon the South China Sea order. Chapter 6, the china'sgeopolitical thoughts on the South China Sea, is countermeasure section, approaches the geo-strategy our country adopts to deals with the disputes in the South China Sea, namely good-neighbor policy, emphatically analyzes the historical origin and theoretical base of good-neighboring policy toward the South China Sea, in order to settle the disputes over the South China Sea, proposes we ought to adopt main principles and countermeasures, and comments on its practical significance. Chapter 7, presents a perspective from practice to theory, analyzes inevitable tendency to settle the disputes in the South China Sea peacefully.