"Cover"--"Half Title"--"Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Maps" -- "Introduction" -- "Disputes and disagreements: from regional to global" -- "Beijing sets the tone" -- "Southeast Asian states matter too" -- "The US as monitor and arbiter" -- "Prospects and implications" -- "The South China Sea and the regional disorder" -- "Chapter One Mapping the history" -- "The law and the sea" -- "Clarifying the claims today" -- "Understanding where these claims come from" -- "Chapter Two Beijing's multifaceted approaches" -- "How 'assertive'?" -- "Beijing's multi-layered approaches to the South China Sea" -- "The domestic challenges of Beijing's South China Sea strategies" -- "Chapter Three Southeast Asia - between emerging great-power rivalry" -- "Regional approaches" -- "Leading the charge - Vietnam and the Philippines" -- "The quieter claimants - Malaysia and Brunei" -- "Anxious ASEAN - Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand" -- "Disinterested ASEAN - Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos" -- "The peculiar position of Taiwan" -- "Working together within ASEAN?" -- "Distrust in defence" -- "Engaging other third-party interests" -- "Southeast Asia's role in evolving great-power dynamics" -- "Chapter Four The US in the South China Sea" -- "Obama's Asia pivot" -- "Military modernisation and the evolution of US partnerships in the region" -- "Building stronger political and economic partnerships" -- "Constraining factors on US engagement" -- "Considering China" -- "Strategic balancing" -- "Conclusions" -- "Mapping the future of the South China Sea" -- "Identifying way markers" -- "Managing tensions in the South China Sea" -- "The South China Sea and the regional order" -- "Appendix The legal environment in the South China Sea" -- "The limits of the convention" -- "The tensions of its interpretation" -- "The US and UNCLOS