National Identity and Economic Interest: Taiwan's Competing Options and Their Implications for Regional Stability

PART I: ECONOMIC INTEGRATION WITH A POLITICAL RIVAL REGIME Introduction From Economic Interactions to Economic Integration Legal Issues Concerning the Signing of ECFA: Implications on Taiwan's Legal Status" IS ECFA: A Mixture of the WTO Principles with "Cross-Strait Characteristics Political Economy of Integration between Two Rival Regimes: ECFA, Its Impacts on Cross Strait Relations and Implications for the U.S. PART II: APPREHENSION OF RAPPROCHEMENT: AN INCREASING DIVIDEDNESS IN TAIWAN AFTER REDUCING THE TENSIONS ACROSS THE TAIWAN STRAIT Taiwan, District of China On the Road to a Common Taiwan Identity Understanding Taiwanese Nationalism PART III: INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF THE ECFA: GEO-POLITICS OF ECONOMIC INTEGRATION ACROSS THE TAIWAN STRAIT ECFA and Beyond: The Paradigm Shift of Taiwan's Security Policy toward China The Shifting Paradigm of the Triangular Relations in the aftermath of the ECFA Removing Taiwan's Pieces: Asia's 'Great Game' without a "Republic of China" Japan's view on Cross Strait Developments* Chapter 13 Concluding Chapter

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349297119
• ISBN13: 9781349297115
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"