Summary This report argues that the Taiwan Navy is spreading itself too thin, dispersing scant resources among numerous missions and assets. Instead, the authors believe,…
Country or Region: Taiwan
Abstract Taiwan is undergoing both a process of nation building and a phase of democratic consolidation, and the experience of divided government at the national…
Abstract Relations across the Taiwan Strait have experienced several cycles over the last 60 years. Tension and crisis seem to come and go, followed by…
Abstract The change of national identity in Taiwan is the concern of the international community, for it may lead to Taiwan independence and armed conflict…
Abstract The political roles of Taiwanese business people (taishang) in cross-strait relations have been increasingly noteworthy under Hu Jintao’s policy of “counting on the Taiwanese…
Abstract Reviews the literature on the status of Taiwan’s national identity since the Mar 2000 election of the island-state’s first opposition party president. Two dimensions…
Summary Since the early 1990s, more and more people in Taiwan have come to view Taiwan itself as a country independent of China. They consider…
Abstract National identity is still one of the most contentious issues in present-day Taiwan. At the surface level, the confrontation between the “pan-blue” and “pan-green”…
Abstract Neither principled believers in independence nor principled believers in unification are numerous enough to give any elected Taiwanese leader a clear mandate for imposing…
Summary At a moment when clashing forces of nationalism and heightened demands for political reform dominate the political life of many states, the democratization of…
Abstract Taiwan has become a full-fledged democracy. But democracy has failed to reduce social divisions and partisan confrontation in Taiwan. In fact, some observers have…
Abstract Taiwan’s geo-strategic position and its domestic political development have been in conflict throughout its modern, post-Chinese civil war history. Taiwan’s geo-strategic position, defined by…
Abstract Many developing countries have undergone identity crises, but the crisis that has emerged in Taiwan in recent years is somewhat different, in that it…
Abstract Over the past twenty years, the intelligence and security services of the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan have been transformed. After decades as…
Abstract Maritime disputes pose a great threat to stability and peace in Northeast Asia, where the region is integrating economically. There are a great number…
