Publications

Topic

Taiwan's Place in the Evolving Security Environment of East Asia

Kharis Templeman, Ph.D., (with the support of U.S.-Asia Security Initiative: Karl Eikenberry , and Belinda A. Yeomans)

Policy Brief

In March 2018 the Taiwan Democracy and Security Project, a part of the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia- Pacific Research Center, convened a workshop that...
Conference Report: The Politics of Polarization in Taiwan [Oct. 2014]

Kharis Templeman

Policy Brief

Over the past year and more, Taiwan’s political elite has been deadlocked over the question of deepening economic relations with the People’s Republic of China. This controversial issue has led to a...
The Aborigine Constituencies in the Taiwanese Legislature

Kharis Templeman, Ph.D.

Working Paper

The Republic of China on Taiwan has long reserved legislative seats for its indigenous minority, the yuanzhumin. While most of Taiwan’s political institutions were transformed as the island...
Threats, Alliances, and Electorates: Why Taiwan's Defense Spending Has Fallen as China's Has Risen

Kharis Templeman, Ph.D., Gary Uzonyi, Thomas Flores

Working Paper

Over the past 20 years, the military balance between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan has rapidly shifted. As China’s defense budget has grown annually at double-digit rates, Taiwan’s has...
Taiwan's Democracy Challenged: The Chen Shui-bian Years

Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, Kharis Templeman, Ph.D.

Book

At the end of Chen Shui-bian’s two terms as the president of Taiwan, his tenure was widely viewed as a disappointment, if not an outright failure. Today, the Chen years (2000-2008) are remembered...