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Critical Realism demonstrates a scientific and political value in future research on the sea South of China’s land border as an entity in and of itself without specific preset cultural boundaries. The ontological fallacy of conflating a sea as an existing reality with a given ideational corpus attached to it is closely linked to the structural elaboration of China’s ancient position in the maritime domain in contemporary terms, overwriting the hybrid cosmologies and epistemological frameworks that have shaped beliefs and actions in the charting of this maritime area. The management of conflicts emanating from this structural elaboration for future peaceful coexistence depends on an understanding of different situational logics that are crucial to reaching a compromise on the role and value of independent institutions, as well as the acknowledgement that cognitional processes have to be reoriented as a crucial part of transforming destructive tendencies.
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Truong, TD., Knio, K. (2016). Conclusion. In: The South China Sea and Asian Regionalism. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace(), vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13551-9_5
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