The Taiwan Democracy and Security Project is part of the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
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 relations. Speakers address a wide range of topics related to Taiwan’s democratic development and consolidation and its regional security environment. Recent events have covered Taiwan’s foreign policy and quest for international space, cross-Strait relations, municipal and national elections, constitutional and institutional reforms, the increasing exercise of Chinese "sharp power" in the United States and Taiwan, US-Taiwan relations at the 40th Anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act, and urban development.