Website:https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/the-giga/team/plagemann-johannes
Contact Person - Johannes Plagemann
Event inquiry /Organizer email address - johannes.plagemann@giga-hamburg.de
Organized by: German Institute for Global and Area Studies GIGA
Topic Covered: Economics, Maritime Law, Asian Studies, Social Sciences
U.S. FONOPs in the South China Sea officially serve a limited legal purpose, but they have caused much confusion and consternation. Why? Analyzing U.S. FONOPs as a form of signaling, we explain why they are ambiguous foreign policy signals and which signaling interpretations are the most plausible.