Abstract The new wave of nationalistic fervor in China is believed to have further complicated cross-strait relations. Ordinary Chinese are not willing to see Taiwan moving towards…
Country or Region: Taiwan
Abstract China has become Taiwan’s most important export and investment destination. This phenomenon is puzzling to realism as concerns for security externalities should discourage commerce between…
Abstract In its relations with Taiwan and China, Washington has begun to implement separate dual strategies in order to simultaneously deter unilateral action while balancing out the…
Abstract Mainstream approaches perpetuate the Taiwan–China ‘crisis’. They do so by following Cold-War concepts and prescriptions, despite the rise of new realities and new visions…
Continue reading Ling, L.H.M., Ching-Chane Hwang, and Boyu Chen
Summary Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them. Looking closely at nine cases in East Asia and the Middle East,…
Abstract Much has been written on the triangular, and increasingly high-profile, China-Taiwan-US relations. However, scholars have yet to apply Diversionary Theory to the China-Taiwan dyad.…
Continue reading Li, Yitan, Patrick James, and A. Cooper Drury
Abstract This article examines the impact of the changed domestic political environment in Japan and Taiwan in the second half of the 2000s, namely the…
From the publisher: The ‘hub-and-spoke’ alliance structure led by the United States was – and remains – a major feature of security politics in the Asia-Pacific.…
From the publisher: Through a case study of Taiwan, this paper seeks to address recent debates surrounding the transformation of developmental states in East Asia. Whilst…
From the publisher: Asia has emerged as the global center for energy demand growth and now accounts for more than two-thirds of the worldwide market for…
Continue reading Bradshaw, Michael , Mikkal E. Herberg, Amy Myers Jaffe, Damien Ma, and Nikos Tsafos
From the publisher: East Asian governments have long recognized that national security must incorporate a reduction of their vulnerability to the disruption of essential imports. The…
Since Ma Ying-jeou assumed the presidency, Taiwan’s relations with Mainland China have been profoundly transformed. This article uses the perspective of a grand strategy to…
Why has the PRC been so determined that Taiwan be part of China? Why, since the 1990s, has Beijing been feverishly developing means to prevail…
Today the most dangerous place on earth is arguably the Taiwan Strait, where a war between the United States and China could erupt out of…
This is a new analysis of the key issues facing Chinese policy makers in their approach towards Taiwan. This is one of the most tense…
