The South Korean think tank Asia-Pacific Leadership Network has published an important monograph External Stakeholders in the South China Sea: Northeast Asia, Europe, and a regional flashpoint. The collected essays are edited by previous ANI contributor Dongkeun Lee.
The volume explores security linkages between Asia and Europe from the perspective of middle-power countries in both regions. While there is already substantial work on Australia’s perspectives on these issues, there are relatively few studies that directly compare the approaches of Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic middle-power countries to the South China Sea disputes. The volume includes chapters on the perspectives of Japan, France, Germany, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines.
The volume can be accessed for free at through the link here.
