Feasibility study of Republic of China''s military compellence strategy in the South China Sea

• Main Authors: Yen-Pu Chen, 陳彥甫
• Other Authors: WEN-ZHENG, CHEN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17485140221579365870

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 國際事務與戰略研究所碩士班 === 103 === In the 1960s, the Union Nation claimed that the South China Sea (SCS) contains a huge of fossil resources, all the states around it then began to jump in the struggle with its sovereignty. Although the Republic of China has the most powerful evidences to show SCS as our territory, we don’t really working hard in it because of our overall policy. The threats become more and more intensified when those states who want to take over the right of speak in SCS, we still see the military means out of our diplomatic efforts. When our policy options became less and less, the hope and chance we can hold SCS as usual will become a trouble. To avoid such a dilemma constitute the motivation of this research. This thesis starts from the military diplomacy, then moves to the core idea: compellence. Using the methods such as literature review, case study, and scenario analysis; then we comes to conclude some obstructions of our compellence in SCS. Those are the military capability to task, domestic affairs issue, intentions and message communication, and the limits from the international arena etc. The thesis topic “Can the Republic of China take compellence strategy in the South China Sea?”, the thesis suggests the answer will be positive: our country can getting over all the obstructions. Still, we have to understand how to avoid the “compellence dilemma”, or the target misplaced is going to defeat ourselves. To give an easy summary, we have the ability to taking military compellence strategy in the SCS. In order to maintain our national interest, we can’t have no chooses when we really need it. The conclusion of this thesis will be telling all the readers, the Republic of China do have the ability to taking action in SCS, the only consider is the political decisions whether do it.