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As East Asia shifts its focus to the maritime domain, existing regional maritime institutions, cooperation, and dialogues are insufficient and must be revamped to meet numerous traditional and non-traditional security challenges. This chapter emphasizes the need to build confidence in East Asia, mapping out maritime confidence-building measures (MCBMs), arguing for maritime cooperation through various means. It further examines the creation of multilateral maritime regimes such as dialogues and/or MCBMs. The principal argument of the chapter is that there is a severe shortage of maritime regimes, cooperation, and dialogues in East Asia and hence a lot more needs to be done in order to ameliorate the maritime security challenges in both the traditional and non-traditional sectors.
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Thai, T.V., Naidu, G.V.C. (2015). The Maritime Security Environment in East Asia: The Need for Strengthening Maritime Regimes, Greater Cooperation, and Dialogues. In: Togo, K., Naidu, G.V.C. (eds) Building Confidence in East Asia: Maritime Conflicts, Interdependence and Asian Identity Thinking. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137504654_6
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