John D. Ciorciari
Associate Professor, University of Michigan
John D. Ciorciari is an associate professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan and a 2015-17 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. His research interests include international law and politics in the Asia-Pacific region. Among other works, he is the author of “The Limits of Alignment: Southeast Asia and the Great Powers since 1975” (2010) and co-author with Jessica Chen Weiss of a recent article entitled “Nationalist Protests, Government Responses, and the Risk of Escalation in Interstate Disputes” (Security Studies, 2016).
Jul 20, 2016
Last week, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) issued a sweeping repudiation of China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea. The ruling’s significance will soon be tested at the July ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting. The positive potential of the decision lies in its capacity to align the incentives of the various claimants and facilitate more genuine multilateral talks on a thoroughly multilateral feud.