Publications – Taiwan National Security Studies

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(Last Update: October 29, 2025)

Fu, R. T. M., Lee, E. I. L., & Park, G. (2025). Signaling, interests, and domestic politics: What matters for US credibility in Taiwan. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 25(2), lcae017.

Hu, L. (2025). Relations with Taiwan. In China’s Peaceful Rise: Identities, Interests, and Strategies (pp. 273-313). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.

Sun, G. (2025). Preference Formation in the Taiwan Strait: A Hierarchical and Conditional Model of Public Opinion toward Unification and Independence, 2008–2024.

BARBU, A. M. D. (2025). China’s Cognitive Warfare for the Peaceful Recovery of Taiwan. Romanian Military Thinking, (1), 136-149.

Wang, T. Y. (2025). Strategic Ambiguity or Strategic Clarity: China’s Rise and US Policy Towards the Taiwan Issue. Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, 12(2), 221-240.

Wang, A. H. E., Yeh, Y. Y., Wu, C. K., & Chen, F. Y. (2025). Undercurrent in Taiwan: Nationalism and Calculation of the cross-strait Relations (2002-2022).Public Opinion Quarterly, Online First.

Brandenbarg, K., Esarey, A., & Yeh, J. (2024). A Will to Win: The Role of the Public in Taiwan’s Defensive Military Outlook. Issues & Studies, 60(03), 2450010.

Wang, T. Y., & Cheng, S. F. (2024). Strategic Clarity and Taiwanese Citizens’ Confidence in the US Security Commitment. Asian Survey, 64(1), 54-78.

Fu, R. T. M., Lee, E. I. L., & Park, G. (2024). Signaling, interests, and domestic politics: What matters for US credibility in Taiwan. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, lcae017.

Chen, F. Y., Wang, A., Wu, C. K., & Yeh, Y. Y. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Cross-Strait Relations. Public Opinion, Policy Responses, and Party Politics under the COVID-19 Pandemic, 149.

Chia-chou, W. (2024). Options Outside Unification through Military Force. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 57(4), 138-167.

Hop, T. M. (2024). Interpret the political ideology of Taiwan independence as Beliefs in a State’s Human Ecosystem. Acta Politica Polonica, (57), 39-51.

Chen, I. T. Y. (2024). Trading for survival: trade policy as a credible signal, alliance strategy, and public preferences in Taiwan. Review of International Political Economy, 31(1), 253-276.

Wu, C. L., & Lin, A. M. W. (2024). W ill the United States come to Taiwan’s defense? Analysis of public opinion in Taiwan and the United States. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 24(1), 131-170.

Wu, C. K., Wang, A. H. E., Yeh, Y. Y., & Chen, F. Y. (2024). Public support for the use of force in non-Western and non-major powers: the case of a China–Taiwan war. International Political Science Review, 45(1), 106-122.

Wu, W. C., Sun, M. C., Fu, W. C., & Huang, W. J. (2023). Taiwanese public opinion on the Chinese and US military presence in the Taiwan Strait. The China Quarterly, 256, 1085-1098.

Lee, W. C. (Ed.). (2023). Protests, Pandemic, and Security Predicaments: Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and the US in the 2020s. Springer Nature.

Chong, J. I., Huang, D. W., & Wu, W. C. (2023). ‘Stand up like a Taiwanese!’: PRC coercion and public preferences for resistance. Japanese Journal of Political Science, 1-22.

Chen, I. T. Y. (2023). Trading for survival: trade policy as a credible signal, alliance strategy, and public preferences in Taiwan. Review of International Political Economy, 1-24.

Wang, A. H. E., Yeh, Y. Y., Wu, C. K., & Chen, F. Y. (2023). Why Does Taiwan Identity Decline?. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 00219096231168068.

Huang, D. W. F., & Wu, W. C. (2023). Taking Sides with the US Against China?—An Analysis of the Taiwanese Choice. In China-US Competition: Impact on Small and Middle Powers’ Strategic Choices (pp. 275-305). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Liu, W. (2023). The mundane politics of war in Taiwan: Psychological preparedness, civil defense, and permanent war. Security Dialogue, 09670106231194908.

Huang, D.W.F., Wu, WC. (2023). Taking Sides with the US Against China?—An Analysis of the Taiwanese Choice. In: Grano, S.A., Huang, D.W.F. (eds) China-US Competition. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15389-1_11

Chang, H. C. H., & Fang, S. (2023). Identity Collapse? Realignment of Taiwanese Voters in the 2024 Presidential Elections on Social Media. arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.07739.

Wang, Austin H. E., & Nadia Eldemerdash (2022). National identity, willingness to fight, and collective action. Journal of Peace Research, 00223433221099058.

Gartner, S. S., Huang, C. H., Li, Y., & James, P. (2021). Identity in the Shadow of a Giant: How the Rise of China is Changing Taiwan. In Identity in the Shadow of a Giant (pp. 1-20). Bristol University Press.

Wang, Austin H. E. (2019). The myth of polarization among Taiwanese voters: The missing middle. Journal of East Asian Studies, 19(3), 275-287.

Wang, Austin H. E. (2017). The Waning effect of China’s Carrot and stick policies on Taiwanese people: Clamping down on growing national identity? Asian Survey, 57(3), 475-503.

Weng, L. C. Dennis. (2017). Can economic profit influence public opinion? Observing generational change on cross-strait relations in Taiwan. Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, 2(4), 362-384.

Mearsheimer, John J. 2014. “Taiwan’s Dire Straits.” National Interest, 130, 29-39.

Wang, Yuan-Kang. 2013. “Taiwan Public Opinion on Cross-Strait Security Issues.” Strategic Studies Quarterly, 7(2):93-113.

Lin, S. Y. C. 2011. “Re-Examining the Relationship between the Cross-Strait Interflow and Taiwan’s National Identity Preference.” Journal of Global Change and Governance, 4(1): 1-15.

Niou, Emerson. 2008. “The China Factor in Taiwan’s Domestic Politics.” in Democratization in Taiwan: Challenges in Transformation,” edited by Jim Meernik and Philip Paolino, Ashgate Publishing, 2008.

Wang, T. Y. 2005. “National Identity and Democratization in Taiwan: An Introduction.” Journal of Asian and African Studies, 40(1-2), 5-12.

Niou, Emerson. 2005. “A new measure of preferences on the independence-unification issue in Taiwan.” Journal of Asian and African Studies, 40(1-2), 91-104.

Niou, Emerson. 2004.”Understanding Taiwan independence and its policy implications.” Asian Survey 44(4): 555-567.