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…
Topic: Foreign Policy
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 The premise of this paper is that China has a divided national identity, characteristic of a category of nation-states divided for political reasons since…
Abstract Taiwan is a mildly divided society—divided essentially along the lines of national identity. Indeed, there is no doubt that national identity is the dominant…
From the publisher: Economic globalization and its counter ideology, human rights, share philosophical foundations in liberalism, in which individual rights are central. But the public/private divide…
Summary Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political…
Abstract The Russian Far East has, since Gorbachev, been used in foreign-policy discourse as a tool to access the integrative processes of the Asia-Pacific. However,…
Abstract Focusing on diverse state approaches to nationalism provides a more nuanced view than that of Russian domestic and foreign policies driven directly by revanchist…
Abstract This study provides a social constructivist reading of Russia’s security policy under President Vladimir Putin, by investigating the relationship between the internal and the…
