The Taiwan Democracy and Security Project is part of the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Policy Analysis
Scholarly Publications
New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan
January 2014
New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan takes a creative and comparative view of the new challenges and dynamics confronting these maturing democracies.Numerous works deal with...
Political Change in China: Comparisons with Taiwan
June 2008
How might China become a democracy? And what lessons, if any, might Taiwan's experience of democratization hold for China's future?
Anatomy of an Earthquake: How the KMT Lost and the DPP Won the 2000 Presidential Election
November 2001
The March 2000 presidential election was an important milestone in the democratic development of Taiwan, with the Kuomintang turned out of power after five decades of control and replaced by the...
Other Publications
Taiwan's Place in the Evolving Security Environment of East Asia
July 2018
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: Trans-Pacific Partnership [Oct. 2013]
January 2014
On Oct. 11-12, 2013, the Taiwan Democracy Project convened a conference on “The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Taiwan’s Future Development Strategy” at Stanford.
Stop Ignoring Taiwan
May 2012
In an article for Foreign Policy, Karl Eikenberry makes the case for the United States to invigorate its relations with Taiwan and outlines the work needed to make this a reality and stabilize...
News
Events
Sentiment, Reason, and Law: Policing in the Republic of China on Taiwan
April 30, 2018
The Republic of China on Taiwan spent nearly four decades as a single-party state under dictatorial rule (1949-1987) before transitioning to liberal democracy.
Taiwan's Place in the Evolving Security Environment of East Asia
January 30, 2018
Over the last dozen years, Taiwan’s democracy has deepened in important ways.
China's Hong Kong SAR at 20: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
October 17, 2017
RSVPs are Closed for this EventSponsored by:Center of Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Center for East Asian Studies, China Program, Shorenstein APARCContact: Kelley Cortright Two...
Projects
Taiwan Democracy and Security Project Speaker Series
The Taiwan Democracy and Security Project Speaker Series features talks by Taiwanese public officials, intellectuals, and scholars, and by U.S.-based scholars of Taiwan and of cross-strait...
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