2016 Taiwan Elections: Significance and Implications
Abstract This year’s Taiwan elections gave the Democratic Progressive Party a clear mandate to rule Taiwan again. Since 2014...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
2016 Taiwan Elections: Significance and Implications
A nation must think before it acts.
Taiwan
Kuomintang Agonistes: Party Politics in the Wake of Taiwan’s 2016 Elections
Abstract Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT) lost badly in the 2016 elections. The KMT had not garnered favorable public opinion under...
The 2016 Election and Prospects for Taiwan’s Democracy
Abstract This article reviews the results of the 2016 presidential and legislative elections in Taiwan, in which the Democratic...
Editor’s Corner Fall 2016
Taiwan in the Tsai Era When the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) swept to victory in Taiwan’s presidential and legislative...
Tsai Ing-wen’s Presidential Platform
. Tsai must be pragmatic and diplomatic in order to get the results she hopes to achieve. Taking office...
Keynote Address: Implications of the 2016 Elections for Economic and Security Issues
Despite its many problems, East Asia remains the principal global bright spot. Unlike the Middle East and Europe, where...
The South China Sea Arbitration Decision: China Fought the Law, and the Law Won….Or Did It?
When the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague issued its unanimous decision on July 12 in the case...
Editor’s Corner Summer 2016
In These Pages We begin our summer issue of Orbis with Colin Dueck’s fine essay on how the next...
Surviving Taiwan’s Lame Duck Period
The interval between the election and inauguration of Taiwan’s new president has yielded both worrying developments and encouraging signs....
Taiwan’s 2012 Presidential and Legislative Elections: Winners, Losers, and Implications
Ma Ying-Jeou and the Kuomintag: A Limited Win The American political phrase, “Don’t change horses in midstream,” does not,...