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Journal of International Security Studies
social security as the fulcrum. Its political security thoughts include “worshiping
gods and ancestors” as well as “rites for maintaining social order and music for
promoting social harmony”. Its military security thoughts manifest themselves in
“governing military affairs by rituals and eliminating all the enemies” as well as”
coordinating the overall situation and focusing on key deployments”. Its social
security thoughts focus on “following the lead of Heaven and enlightening people
with virtue and ethics” as well as “respecting the harmony of Yin and Yang and the
spirit of Datong. These security thoughts constitute a holistic and interrelated
national security thought system that enriches the theoretical connotation of the
overall national security outlook.
[Keywords] national security thoughts of Western Zhou Dynasty, national security
studies, contributing factors of national security, political security, military security,
social security
[Authors] XIN Wen, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Xi’an Jiaotong University; HAN Pengjie, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, School
of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University (Xi’an, 710049).

129 On Regime Integration of Multilateral Non-traditional Security
Cooperation in the South China Sea
QI Huaigao
[Abstract] The fragmented regimes for non-traditional security cooperation in the
South China Sea are beset with disintegration and overlapping functionality. The
key reason for regime “fragmentation” or lack of integration in the SCS goes like
this: Three actors, namely China, ASEAN claimants and outside powers, have
initiated different regimes for non-traditional security cooperation in the SCS on
their own and provided disparate answers to the following three critical questions,
“Whose multilateral security?”, “What kind of multilateral security?”, and “How to
establish multilateral security?”. The Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China
Sea currently being negotiated could be used as the core of the “integration regime”
while constructing an integrated framework for multilateral non-traditional security
cooperation in the SCS. At the same time, some fundamental principles of the
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the SCS littoral
states cooperation mechanism can be incorporated into the formulation of the COC.
In short, multilateral security cooperation in the SCS can be achieved successfully
only if all the three actors (especially China and the United States) collectively place
a high premium on the looming threat in the non-traditional security domain and are
willing to cooperate in fighting this threat. Moreover, a number of important lessons
can be drawn from the cooperation cases on multilateral non-traditional security in
the SCS and its adjacent waters. Four rules are recommended to be abided by to
facilitate multilateral non-traditional security cooperation in the SCS: the SCS
littoral states pursue constructive interactions with the outside powers, put at the top
of their agenda combating transnational piracy and terrorism, lay emphasis on
enhancing their maritime capacity-building as well as promote multilateral cooperation
in marine environmental protection and fishery resources management.
[Keywords] South China Sea, non-traditional security cooperation, China, ASEAN
claimants, outside powers, regime integration
[Author] QI Huaigao, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Vice Dean, Institute of International
Studies, Fudan University (Shanghai, 200433).

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