TY - BOOK AU - SCHOFIELD Clive AU - STOREY Ian TI - The South China Sea dispute: increasing stakes and rising tensions SN - 9780981690551 PY - 2009/// CY - Washington D.C. PB - Jamestown Foundation KW - SOUTH CHINA SEA KW - BOUNDARY DISPUTES KW - CHINA KW - FOREIGN POLICY KW - SOUTHEAST ASIA KW - REGIONAL SECURITY KW - CONFLICT N2 - Summarises first the importance of the South China Sea and the sources of potential conflict, and second the recent history of relations between interested parties in the South China Sea. After a period of relative calm China is once again being more assertive over its claims and using hard power diplomacy to undermine the claims of other states. The report notes that despite ten years of discussions between China and ASEAN there has been little substantive progress, meanwhile military forces have grown ER -