TY  - GEN
AB  - This article evaluates whether the South China Sea's littoral states can cooperatively manage the region's contested oil and natural gas resources. By examining historical intergovernmental joint development agreements (JDAs), it argues that the prospects for significant hydrocarbon cooperation are slim undercurrent political conditions, as rival states rarely establish such accords. Moreover, creating JDAs is insufficient to prompt actual co-development of shared oil and gas deposits or improvements in states' broader relations. Nonetheless, hydrocarbon agreements do have one important positive impact. They prevent resource-related militarized confrontations, thereby reducing the risk of territorial dispute escalation. This incentive, alone, could prompt the South China Sea's claimant states to negotiate JDAs and third party states to encourage these efforts.
AU  - Meierding, Emily
DA  - 2017
ID  - 294812
L1  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/294812/files/1-s2.0-S221462961630322X-main.pdf
L2  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/294812/files/1-s2.0-S221462961630322X-main.pdf
L4  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/294812/files/1-s2.0-S221462961630322X-main.pdf
LK  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/294812/files/1-s2.0-S221462961630322X-main.pdf
N2  - This article evaluates whether the South China Sea's littoral states can cooperatively manage the region's contested oil and natural gas resources. By examining historical intergovernmental joint development agreements (JDAs), it argues that the prospects for significant hydrocarbon cooperation are slim undercurrent political conditions, as rival states rarely establish such accords. Moreover, creating JDAs is insufficient to prompt actual co-development of shared oil and gas deposits or improvements in states' broader relations. Nonetheless, hydrocarbon agreements do have one important positive impact. They prevent resource-related militarized confrontations, thereby reducing the risk of territorial dispute escalation. This incentive, alone, could prompt the South China Sea's claimant states to negotiate JDAs and third party states to encourage these efforts.
PY  - 2017
T1  - Joint development in the South China Sea:exploring the prospects of oil and gas cooperation between rivals
TI  - Joint development in the South China Sea:exploring the prospects of oil and gas cooperation between rivals
UR  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/294812/files/1-s2.0-S221462961630322X-main.pdf
Y1  - 2017
ER  -