"[This book] sheds light on various unresolved and lingering territorial disputes in Southeast Asia and their reflection in current inter-state relations in the region. The authors, academics from Europe and East Asia, particularly address the territorial disputes in the South China Sea and those between Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand and Cambodia. They apply international relations theories in a wider regional and comparative perspective. The empirical analyses are embedded in a concise theoretical discussion of the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity and borders. Furthermore, the book discusses the role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other multi-track mechanisms in border conflict mediation."-- Back cover.

Boundaries and frontiers in Southeast Asia : fences have made fretful neighbors /Petra Andelova -- Border disputes in Southeast Asia and their impact on the regional integration process / Filip Kraus -- ASEAN and the Thai-Cambodian conflict : the final stage at Preah Vihear? / Richard Q. Turcsanyi and Zdenek Kriz -- Claiming Phu Quoc/Koh Tral : irredentism as a recurrent theme of Cambodian domestic politics / Maria Strasakova -- Multitrack diplomatic approaches to border and territorial disputes in Southeast Asia and soft balancing / Alica Kizekova -- The South China Sea conflict : ten thousand stones and a nine-dash-line : rethinking maritime space concepts / Padraig Lysaght -- The South China Sea dispute : a shift to a more proactive role in ASEAN's discourse and policies since 2012? / Alfred Gerstl -- The logic of strategic restraint and prospects for joint development in the South China Sea / Truong-Minh Vu -- Lessons to be learned : a neorealist assessment of the HYSY-981 standoff and its implications for Vietnam's South China Sea strategy / Jorg Thiele -- The spring 2014 incidents in the South China Sea : trigger of a more intense and assertive security discourse in China? / Josef Falko Loher.