Philippine perspectives : resolving maritime disputes in Southeast Asia and East Asia / The Angara Centre for Law and Economics.

Contains a compilation of presentation,recommendations,and proceedings of the Angara Centre's December roundtable forum on maritime disputes in the West Philippine and the East China Sea by a group of international experts.The papers on the forum analyzed issues from multidisciplinary perspectives,shedding light on such questions as wether the disputes were pushing the region to the brink of an irreversible armed confrontation on apocalyptic scale.Expressed in the forum too,were steps to be taken by policy makers to avert catastrophic showdown in the high seas.The object of concern of the discussion is the South China Sea bordered by seven countries:China, Taiwan,the Philippines,Brunei,Indonesia,Malaysia,and Vietnam most lodging overlapping claims on territories on the sea.