TY - BOOK AU - ROBERTS Christopher B TI - The South China Sea precedent: rising instability amidst revisionist tendencies PY - 2018/// KW - SOUTH CHINA SEA N2 - The South China Sea precedent will further embolden revisionist states to undertake additional coercive actions when diplomacy fails. The region cannot expect the US to defend Asia on its own, should the rules base states of the Indo-Pacific act together then that the US to more substantially and constructively reengage the region ER -