(Tentative)
Spring 2012 National Chengchi University
International Relations of Taiwan
Professor Tse-Kang Leng 冷則剛
Research Fellow
Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica
Professor of Political Science
National Chengchi University
E-Mail:
TEL: 2652-5317
Course Requirements: This is a seminar-based course on Taiwan’s international relations. Students must participate actively in class discussions. Participants are required to finish the readingsbefore the weekly class meeting starts.
Registered students must make three formal presentations in class:
(1)Choose two topics from the weekly sessions.You are responsible for identifying key arguments of the reading materials and providing additional information in your oral presentations.
(2)Present your “ pioneer paper proposal” in the last meeting of class.
Based on oral presentations, students will discuss and debate major viewpoints in class.
Instructor will lead the discussions, lecture supplemental topics, and raise further questions.
All the reading materials, except downloadable internet documents, will be compiled in the reading packet.
Grading: Class participation and presentations: 65%
Mid-term exam.: 35%
Course Schedule :
- Overview
Week 1 Introduction and Organization
Week 2. International Relations and Taiwan: Basic Readings
Wei-chin Lee”Field of Dreams: An Overview of Practice and Study of Taiwan’s
Foreign Policy” Issues and Studies, (40,No.4,Sept/Dec 2004) pp.137-182
Stephen Haggard, “ The Balance of Power, Globalization , and Democracy: International Relations Theories in Northeast Asia”, Journal of East Asian Studies, No. 4, 2004, pp. 1-38.
- The China Factor and Taiwan’s International Relations
Week 3 . Change and continuity of China
David Shambaugh, “ The Chinese State in the post-Mao era”, in David Shambaugh ed., The Modern Chinese State(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 161-187.
Yingyi Qian, “How Reform Worked in China”, Dept. of Economics, UC Berkeley, 2001.
Cheng Li, Reclaiming the “Head of the Dragon”: Shanghai as China’s Center for International Finance and Shipping
China leadership monitor, January 9, 2009, no. 28
Week 4 China and the international system
Qing Yaqing, “Struggle for Identity: A Political Psychology of China’s rise”, in Brantly Womack, ed., China’s rise in historical perspective ( New York: Roman and Littlefield, 2010), Chapter 11.
Bonnie S. Glaser and Evan S. Medeiros, 2007, “The Changing Ecology of Foreign Policy-Making in China: The Ascension and Demise of the Theory of “Peaceful Rise”.” The China Quarterly, 190, Jun. 2007, p.p. 291-310.
“The rise of China’s power and international role”, Tsinghua University, 2009.
- The US Factor in Taiwan’s Foreign Relations
Week 5 The Foundation of US Foreign Policy
Walter Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World , pp. 1-98; 264-334
Week 6 US—China—Taiwan Triangle
Nye, Joseph S. Jr. (2010) ‘The future of American power’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 89, Iss. 6, pp. 2-12.
Marc Chia-Ching Cheng, 2008, “The U.S. Perception of Taiwan’s Sovereignty and the Future of Cross-Strait Relations”, Issues & Studies, Vol.44, No.3, pp.71-97.
Yu-shan Wu and Lowell Dittmer, “ What drives the cross-strait rapprochement?”, IPSAS paper, 2010.
4/5 National holiday; no class
Week 7midterm Exam.
IV Policy Areas and Diplomatic Initiatives
Week 8 Linkages of Domestic and international politics
J. Bruce Jacobs and I-hao Ben Liu, 2007, “Lee Teng-hui and the Idea of “Taiwan”.”The China Quarterly, 190, Jun. 2007, p.p. 375-393.
Bruce Gilley, “Not so dire straits”, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb, 2010.
Chang, Vance, Mouritzen, Hans, and Gilley, Bruce (2010) ‘To the Finland station’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 89, Iss. 3, pp. 128-132.
Week 9 Taiwan and new diplomacy
Bernard Brown, What is the new diplomacy, American Foreign Policy Interests, 2001
Yun-han Chu, “ Taiwan’s soft power and cross-strait relations: can the tail wang the dog”, paper presented at the IPSAS conference, February 5-6, 2010.
Hongying Wang; Yeh-Chung Lu, “The Conception of Soft Power and its Policy Implications: a comparative study of China and Taiwan” , Journal of Contemporary China, Vol 17, no.56, 2008
425 – 447
Week 10. Taiwan and CBM
Victor Cha, “ Globalization and the Study of International Security”, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 37, No. 3, 391-403 (2000)
Robert Ross, “ China’s Naval Nationalism”, International Security, Fall, 2009.
Bonnie Glaser, Building Trust Across the Taiwan Strait, CSIS Report, 2010.
Week 11 Cross-Strait Relations
Xin, Qiang (2010) ‘Beyond Power Politics: institution-building and Mainland China's Taiwan policy transition’, Journal of Contemporary China, Volume 19, Issue 65, pp. 525 – 539.
Hsu, S. Philip (2010) ‘Reappraising the debate and practice of US strategic ambiguity/clarity in cross-strait relations’, Pacific Review, Volume 23 Issue 2, pp. 139 – 162.
Yu-Shan Wu, 2007, “Taiwan’s Developmental State: After the Economic and Political Turmoil”, Asian Survey, Vol.47, Issue 6, pp.977-1001.
Week 12 Japan , East Asia , and Taiwan’s diplomacy
Victor Cha, “ Complex Patchwork: US Alliance as Part of Asia’s Regional Architecture, NBR report, January, 2011
Jing Sun, 2007, “Japan-Taiwan Relations: Unofficial in Name Only.”Asian Survey, Vol.47, Iss.5, p.p. 790-810.
Yoshihide Soeya, “Taiwan in Japan’s Security Consideration”, China Quarterly, March, 2001
V. Taiwan’s role in the International System
Week 13 Guest Speaker
Guest Speaker, Professor Brantly Womack, University of Virginia
Week 14 Peace Making and Taiwan
Charles Kupchan, How enemies become friends, Princeton University Press, 2010
Week 15 Grand Strategy and Small State Survival
Kenneth Waltz, Realism and International Politics, (London: Routledge, 2008), Ch 13
John Lewis Gaddis, “What is Grand Strategy”
grandstrategypaper.pdf
Hugh White, Australia’s future between Washington and Beijing, Power shift, 2010
Week 16 Pioneer paper proposal presentations
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