Dean P. Chen (PhD, University of California Santa Barbara) is professor of Political Science at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

He is the author of three books: US-China-Taiwan in the Age of Trump and Biden: Towards a Nationalist Strategy (New York: Routledge, 2022), US-China Rivalry and Taiwan’s Mainland Policy: Security, Nationalism, and the 1992 Consensus (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and US-Taiwan Strait Policy: The Origins of Strategic Ambiguity (Lynne Rienner, 2012).

His articles have appeared in Asian Survey, Asian Security, Asian Politics & Policy, Pacific Focus, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. His commentaries have appeared in The Diplomat, The National Interest, Global Taiwan Brief, Taiwan Insight, and China-US Focus.

In 2014-16, Chen was coordinator of the Conference Group on Taiwan Studies of the American Political Science Association. He was a MOFA Taiwan Fellow in 2014 and a Fulbright US Scholar in 2017-18. Chen is a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University in Spring 2025 for his sabbatical.