Fishing militia, the securitization of fishery and the South China Sea dispute

• Main Authors: Zhang, Hongzhou, Bateman, Sam
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Fishing Militia; South China Sea Dispute; Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84436; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49155
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

With fishery incidents emerging as a major threat to peace and stability in the South China Sea, a better understanding of the underlying causes of these incidents becomes important. Mainstream media, and a substantial body of academic literature, attribute these fishing incidents, and the growing p...