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Following President Chen Sui-bian's victory in the controversial
2004 presidential election, this book examines the future direction
of Taiwan's foreign policy, focusing on the internal and external
forces that influence and shape the countries foreign policy
decisions today. The author suggests that four levels of analysis -
the international system, governmental structure, societal forces
and individual factors - pose some explanatory value when seeking
to understand Taipei's foreign policy behaviour. Taiwan's foreign
policy decision-making remains an extremely complex process
involving many important variables. However the author's detailed
analysis reveals that external factors, particularly seismic shifts
in global politics and the role of China and the US have had an
extraordinary degree of influence over the island's foreign
relations. This book highlights these factors as important
considerations that continue to play a critical role in shaping
Taiwan's foreign policy. Providing a clear analysis of the dynamics
of Taiwan's foreign policy, Foreign Policy Making in Taiwan is an
important addition to the literature on Taiwan and will be
essential reading for followers of Chinese politics, comparative
politics and foreign policy analysis.
This book is an introductory study of the complex security
relationship that exists between the United States and Taiwan. It
explains how U.S. security policy toward Taiwan has been steered
primarily by Cold War calculations and how the U.S. has sought to
respond creatively to the constraints on military support for
Taiwan imposed by the normalization of relations with the People's
Republic of China. Hickey suggests that, with the disintegration of
the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the time has arrived
for adjustments in the U.S.-Taiwan relationship. These
modifications should not, however, include a change in American
security policy, which should continue to serve U.S. interests in
the post-Cold War environment.
Harmonious World and China's New Foreign Policy consists of essays
by China specialists on the Chinese government's characterization
of foreign policy as a "harmonious world." The essays deal with
such topics as "harmonious world" and China's new diplomacy,
China's multilateral diplomacy after the Cold War, China's changing
image of and engagement with the world order, China's energy
security diplomacy, and China's trade diplomacy. These insightful
contributions will help students in this academic field understand
the new concepts and programs adopted by the Chinese new leadership
and their important implications for China's new foreign policy
behavior in the years to come.
Toward Better Governance in China takes a fresh look at the latest
efforts made by Chinese leaders to promote governance-based reform.
It asserts that the improvement of governance has now become one of
the breakthrough points of the much anticipated political reform.
Although the Chinese government continues to play down expectations
about political reform, many small-scale reform experiments have
been quietly undertaken by Chinese leaders at various levels in
recent years, including the new round of administrative reform
centered on the creation of "super ministries," the enlargement of
inner-party democracy within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the
strengthening of local legislative bodies, and judicial reform
designed to promote judicial independence and rule of law. This
strategy calls for strengthening governing capacity and changing
government functions. One of the advantages in placing the
improvement of governance first is that it is less risky than
embarking upon a full-scaled electoral reform. Electoral democracy
is undoubtedly an important element in a functional democracy. But
equally important is the effectiveness, transparency,
accountability, and openness of the governing process. Better
governance implies greater transparency, open deliberation and
participation, and less adversarial political confrontation and
conflict. If constructed properly, China may become the sort of
democratic administration or administrative democracy that Robert
Dahl discussed in 1947. Clearly, political reform of this kind does
not follow the conventional wisdom of a democratic transition which
places heavy emphasis on electoral reform or the precedence of the
electoral reform to the government reform. This book is intended to
shed some new light on the ongoing debate about the direction of
China's political development.
'Harmonious World' and China's New Foreign Policy consists of
essays by China specialists on the Chinese government's
characterization of foreign policy as a 'harmonious world.' The
essays deal with such topics as 'harmonious world' and China's new
diplomacy, China's multilateral diplomacy after the Cold War,
China's changing image of and engagement with the world order,
China's energy security diplomacy, and China's trade diplomacy.
These insightful contributions will help students in this academic
field understand the new concepts and programs adopted by the
Chinese new leadership and their important implications for China's
new foreign policy behavior in the years to come.
Following President Chen Sui-bian's victory in the controversial
2004 presidential election, this book examines the future direction
of Taiwan's foreign policy, focusing on the internal and external
forces that influence and shape the countries foreign policy
decisions today. The author suggests that four levels of analysis -
the international system, governmental structure, societal forces
and individual factors - pose some explanatory value when seeking
to understand Taipei's foreign policy behaviour. Taiwan's foreign
policy decision-making remains an extremely complex process
involving many important variables. However the author's detailed
analysis reveals that external factors, particularly seismic shifts
in global politics and the role of China and the US have had an
extraordinary degree of influence over the island's foreign
relations. This book highlights these factors as important
considerations that continue to play a critical role in shaping
Taiwan's foreign policy. Providing a clear analysis of the dynamics
of Taiwan's foreign policy, Foreign Policy Making in Taiwan is an
important addition to the literature on Taiwan and will be
essential reading for followers of Chinese politics, comparative
politics and foreign policy analysis.
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