Taiwan and the International Community

The Editor: Steve Tsang is Louis Cha Fellow and University Reader in Politics at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is also Director of the Taiwan Studies Programme and the Pluscarden Programme for the Study of Global Terrorism and Intelligence and has previously served as Director of the Asian Studies Centre. He is the author of five books and the editor or co-editor of eight others.

lt;i>Contents: Steve Tsang: Taiwan as a Member of the International Community - Steven M. Goldstein: Soft Power as a Foreign Policy Tool for Taiwan - Chia-Lung Lin: The Importance of China and Identity Politics in Taiwan's Diplomacy - Dennis Hickey: The USA's Continuing Commitment to Taiwan - Gregory W. Noble: Post-colonial Sentiments and Security Calculations: Ties with Japan - Masako Ikegami: The European Union's Progressive Foreign Policy and Role in Preventing Cross-Strait Conflict - Elizabeth Freund Larus: Soft Power versus Hard Cash: Retaining Democratic Allies - Wen-Cheng Lin: The Limits of Democratic Appeal and Economic Leverages: Relations with ASEAN Countries - Steve Tsang: The Long-term Prospect for Taiwan's Foreign Relations.