1st Edition
Tensions in the Taiwan Strait International Responses and Strategies
Introduction: Taiwan in Global Context, Keiko Hirata Chapter 1: Balancing Acts in the U.S.-China-Taiwan Triangular Relationship, Keiko Hirata Chapter 2: The Geostrategy Underlying Japan’s Commitment to Taiwan, Hidekazu Sakai Chapter 3: South Korea-Taiwan Relations: Evolving Language, Enduring Policy, Florence W. Yang and Keiko Hirata Chapter 4: India’s Shifting Stance on Taiwan: Multi-Alignment and Strategic Autonomy, Aleksandra Jaskólska and Kumari Mansi Chapter 5: Towards One China 2.0? Analyzing Australia’s Deepening Engagement with Taiwan amid the U.S.-China Rivalry, Jack D. Butcher Chapter 6: How the UK ‘Discovered’ Taiwan: Implications for the UK, Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific Region, Jonathan Sullivan Chapter 7: Canada’s Strategic Turn and Response to Tensions in the Taiwan Strait, Tony Tai-Ting Liu Chapter 8: ASEAN Ways: Southeast Asian Responses to the Taiwan Dilemma, Barbara Kratiuk and Roberto Rabel Chapter 9: EU-Taiwan Cooperation: A Partnership Rooted in Democracy, Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy Conclusion: Prospects for Stakeholder Strategies on Taiwan, Hidekazu Sakai
Biography
Keiko Hirata is Eugene Price Professor and Chair of political science at California State University, Northridge USA. She is the author of Civil Society in Japan: The Growing Role of NGOs in Tokyo’s Aid and Development Policy (2002), co-author of Japan: The Paradox of Harmony (2014), and co-editor of Norms, Interests, and Power in Japanese Foreign Policy (2008).
Hidekazu Sakai is Professor of International Relations at Graduate School of Language and Cultural Studies Division at Kansai Gaidai University, Japan. He is the author of The US-Japan Security Community: Theoretical Understanding of Transpacific Relationships (2018) and co-editor of Re-rising Japan: Its Strategic Power in International Relations (2017) and Alternative Perspectives on Peacebuilding: Theories and Case Studies (2022).
