Co-authored by four high-profile International Relations scholars, this book investigates the implications of the global ascent of China on cross-Strait relations and the identity of Taiwan as a democratic state.
Examining an array of factors that affect identity formation, the authors consider the influence of the rapid military and economic rise of China on Taiwans identity. Their assessment offers valuable insights into which policies have the best chance of resulting in peaceful relations and prosperity across the Taiwan Strait and builds a new theory of identity at elite and mass levels. It also possesses implications for the United States-led world order and todays most critical great power competition.
Identity in the Shadow of a Giant: How the Rise of China Is Changing
Taiwan
Taiwan in Historical Perspective
The Problématique of Taiwanese Identity
Theorizing about Identity, Change in Capabilities and Dyadic Relations: An
Approach Based on Analytic Eclecticism and Systemism
Elite Reflections
Popular Reflections (Survey I)
Factors Influencing Identifying Only as Taiwanese: A Layered Empirical
Approach (Survey II)
A New Vision of Taiwanese Identity, the Rise of China, Cross-Strait Relations
and the United States in Northeast Asia
Scott Sigmund Gartner is Provost and Academic Dean of the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
Chin-Hao Huang is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Head of Studies in Global Affairs at Yale-NUS College.
Yitan Li is Associate Professor, Chair of Political Science and Director of Asian Studies at Seattle University.
Patrick James is Dornsife Deans Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California.
