This book offers a diverse set of perspectives on the current state of Taiwan’s economy and international relations, equally considering the challenges and opportunities that could forge Taiwan’s future.

Featuring a range of interdisciplinary approaches, this edited volume has been written by some of the leading scholars on Taiwan’s economy and international relations, as well as emerging scholars and writers with practical diplomatic, political, and civil society experience. Contributors cover themes from political economy and international relations to gender studies and civil society-led LGBT diplomacy. Readers will benefit from chapters outlining both the historical overview of Taiwan’s development and more recent developments, with several chapters offering focused case studies into Taiwan’s economy and international space. A balanced set of conclusions are reached, affording scope for both optimism and pessimism about Taiwan’s prospects.

Taiwan's Economic and Diplomatic Challenges and Opportunities will appeal to students and scholars of international relations, economics, and Taiwan studies.

1. Taiwan's Economic and Diplomatic Challenges and Opportunities

Mariah Thornton, Robert Ash and Dafydd Fell

2. Economic Development of Taiwan and Structural change: Retrospect and Prospect

Lin Chu-chia

3. How can Taiwan enlarge its role in the process of Asia-Pacific economic integration?

Liu Da-nien

4. Taiwan in the High-Income Trap and Its Implications for Cross-Strait Relations

Syaru Shirley Lin

5. Why has Taiwan not attracted much investment from mainland China?: Three explanations

Jan Knoerich and Lee Chun-yi

6. Review and look ahead: Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy in the case of Vietnam

Lee Chun-yi

7. Facing the Pacific: An Eastbound Strategy for Taiwanese Maritime Commerce in the 21st Century

Lin Kun-chin and Charles I-hsin Chen

8. A new westbound policy? The case for increasing EU-Taiwan engagement

Michael Reilly

9. Change and Continuity in American Policy toward Taiwan

Harry Harding

10. China’s Marginalisation of Taiwan

Richard C. Bush

11. Walking toward China or toward the World? Taiwan’s International Space under Ma Ying-jeou and Tsai Ing-wen

Mariah Thornton

12. Tongzhi Diplomacy and the Queer Case of Taiwan

Chen Nai-chia and Dafydd Fell

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