Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development
Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development

Author: Steve Chan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1134903243

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Using the developmental history of Taiwan as a starting point, Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna critically examines several prevalent formulations of domestic development and international economy. The authors examine Taiwan's policy performance from, in turn, the developmental, the dependency, the statist, and the trade-off perspectives on political economy. They reject these approaches in favour of the key ideas of flexibility, foresight and fortuna as an explanation of Taiwan's relatively unusual success in achieving domestic development and upward mobility in the international system.

Flexibility, Foresight, and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development
Flexibility, Foresight, and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development

Author: Steve Chan

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9780044459491

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The book combines material that is specific to Taiwan with cross-national theorising. The Taiwanese example is used to test the prevalent formulations of domestic development and international economy--the developmental, dependency, statist and tradeoff theories--and to reach new conclusions. This book will be of interest to second- and third-year undergraduates and to postgraduate students of Asian studies and political economy.

Revival: Taiwan's National Security: Dilemmas and Opportunities (2001)
Revival: Taiwan's National Security: Dilemmas and Opportunities (2001)

Author: Alexander C. Tan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1351749773

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This title was first published in 2001. Clearly structured and very accessible, this book rigorously examines the key issues affecting Taiwan’s increasingly precarious position as an independent nation. An impressive supplementary resource text for Asian politics and international relations courses.

Understanding Modern Taiwan
Understanding Modern Taiwan

Author: Christian Aspalter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 135187697X

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Focusing on aspects of modern Taiwan related to the fields of economics, social policy and politics, this collection brings together leading scholars to discuss recent developments in Taiwanese society. The contributors discuss economic policy making in Taiwan, the Diaspora of Taiwanese businessmen, the issue of national identity, the factors behind political liberalization and democratization, labour and social politics, the emergence of social movements that promote new social policies, and the impact of democratization on welfare state politics in Taiwan. Since the lifting of martial law in 1987, Taiwan has undergone a period of rapid industrialization and democratization which has changed the face of Taiwanese society. This volume will provide an insight into these dramatic economic, political and societal changes.

Contemporary China in the Post-Cold War Era
Contemporary China in the Post-Cold War Era

Author: Bih-jaw Lin

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9781570030932

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Consists of 17 papers delivered at the 23rd Sino-American Conference on Contemporary China held in Taipei in June, 1994. Contributors from the fields of economics, political science, international relations, sociology, and Asian studies analyze recent changes in politics, economics, foreign relation

Foreign Direct Investment in a Changing Global Political Economy
Foreign Direct Investment in a Changing Global Political Economy

Author: Steve Chan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1349141216

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This book examines foreign direct investment in a changing world economy. It offers case-studies of this investment in different national and industrial contexts. Firms and countries have encountered mixed results in using this investment to further their foreign leverage. Conversely, potential host countries have faced different opportunities and constraints in attracting or utilizing foreign capital for their development. Although some countries have been relatively successful, most do not appear to be well positioned to take advantage of the ongoing processes of globalization of national economies.

Economic Development Of Taiwan: Early Experiences And The Pacific Trade Triangle
Economic Development Of Taiwan: Early Experiences And The Pacific Trade Triangle

Author: Frank S T Hsiao

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2015-03-26

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 9814618527

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Taiwan's economic growth since the 1970s has roots in its pre-war development and post-war formation of the Pacific trade triangle. By highlighting the historical perspective of the Japanese linkages and the geographic vantage point of Taiwan-Japan-USA trade triangle, Economic Development of Taiwan features a collection of papers by Frank S T Hsiao and Mei-Chu Wang Hsiao. Published mostly between 1989 and 2002, their analyses on Taiwan's pre-war and post-war early economic history debunk the myth of the country's post-war rags to riches story and revalue the myth of 'wise' government policy. Timely and accessible, this unique volume shows how early Taiwanese experiences of economic development can be valuable paradigms for emerging economies of Asian, African and Latin American countries in this age of globalization.

Fast Forward
Fast Forward

Author: Torry D. Dickinson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780742508958

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This innovative, global feminist analysis of work and politics examines the diverse problems and related protests of women and men who labor to make ends meet in a rapidly-changing world. Using vivid examples from around the world, it reveals how "globalization" is reshaping social institutions and lives. Fast Forward explores how businesses and states reshaped and redistributed work around the world during the last 30 years of "globalization," often with adverse consequences. Within this fast-moving context, laboring people today engage in work outside of formal employment, try to obtain survival resources, mount a diverse array of often women-centered protests against firms and states, and try--on their own terms--to reinvent work and democratic political practices. Portraying the human face of global change, Fast Forward shows how overlapping social movements wrestle with economic and political marginalization, and initiate highly diverse, but related attempts to change the way the world works.

Foreign Policies toward Taiwan
Foreign Policies toward Taiwan

Author: Shaohua Hu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-08-03

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1351667327

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The issue of Taiwan is the single most difficult factor in the relationship between China and the United States. Any cross-straits conflict between China and Taiwan is likely not only to pit the world’s two leading powers against each other, but also to suck in many other countries. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of other countries’ foreign policies towards Taiwan. It considers the position of the United States and key regional powers including Japan and South and North Korea, examines the attitude of Russia and other countries which support China on this issue, and discusses the surprising policies of some smaller countries, which have recognised Taiwan’s independence. The book also relates the overall picture to various international relations theories.

Taiwan
Taiwan

Author: John F Copper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0429974221

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In this newly revised and updated edition of Taiwan: Nation-State or Province?, John F. Copper examines Taiwan's geography and history, society and culture, economy, political system, and foreign and security policies in the context of Taiwan's uncertain political status as either a sovereign nation or a province of the People's Republic of China. Copper argues that Taiwan's very rapid and successful democratization suggests Taiwan should be independent and separate from China, while economic links between Taiwan and China indicate the opposite. New to the sixth edition is enhanced coverage of the issues of immigration; the impact of having the world's lowest birthrate; China's economic and military rise and America's decline; Taiwan's relations with China, the United States, and Japan; and the KMT's (Nationalist Party) return to power. The new edition will also examine the implications of the 2012 presidential election. A selected bibliography guides students in further research.