Blue, Green or Aquamarine? Taiwan and the Status Quo Preference in Cross-Strait Relations

2014 ◽  
Vol 219 ◽  
pp. 670-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chin-Hao Huang ◽  
Patrick James
Keyword(s):  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Economic Interdependence ◽  
China’S Rise ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Status ◽  
China's Rise ◽  
Liberal Approach ◽  
Policy Elites

AbstractDebates about whether China's rise poses a threat or an opportunity for Taiwan have settled into a realist assumption that Beijing will continue to upset the balance of power and a liberal approach that believes the benefits of economic interdependence are leading to greater gains. Missing from this debate is a nuanced consideration of how Taiwan's policy elites view themselves and their position in cross-Strait relations. Taiwan's decision makers' views are deeply affected by, and interact with, factors and institutions on and beyond the island. This article offers a model of political processes – the staying power of the status quo and order of movement – as a possible route towards an explanation for Taiwan's position on cross-Strait negotiations. The conclusion is that the status quo position – de facto but not de jure independence – is becoming more entrenched with time. Taiwan's colours of partisanship, Blue and Green, are blending into Aquamarine.

scholarly journals China’s Rise and “Responsibility” in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 40-60
Author(s):  
Astrid HM Nordin ◽  
Graham Mark Smith
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Other ◽  
Great Power ◽  
International Policy ◽  
China’S Rise ◽  
Norm Compliance ◽  
The Status ◽  
China's Rise ◽  
Alternative Understanding

In recent decades ‘responsibility’ has become a prominent idea in international political discourse. Against this backdrop, international policy and scholarly communities contemplating China’s rise regularly as “whether, when, and how” China will become a “responsible” great power. This article reviews, unpacks and questions understandings of responsibility in the debates about China. One strand of these debates argue that China can become responsible by adopting and promoting the existing status quo; the other argues that China acts responsibly when it challenges the unfair hegemony of the status quo. This article argues that both of these debates operate with a remarkably similar understanding of responsibility. Whether China adopts existing rules and norms, or whether it establishes rules and norms of its own, responsibility is understood to be rule and norm compliance. The article explores the possibility of an alternative understanding of responsibility suggested by Derrida. It is argued that a Derridian approach does not dispense with rules and norms, but is conscious of the irresolvable dilemma when faced with the demands of multiple others. Such an understanding is helpful insofar as it reminds those who would call for responsibility that such responsibility, and politics itself, is more than simply following rules and maintenance of norms.

scholarly journals A Crisis of Status Quo or Power Transition Amidst China Rise: An Integrative Review of a Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 281-286
Author(s):  
Pervaiz Ali Mahesar ◽  
Ali Khan Ghumro ◽  
Iftikhar Ali
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
International Society ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Power Transition ◽  
Global Order ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Usa ◽  
China's Rise ◽  
Rising Power

This article reviews China's rise in the context of Status Quo or Power Transition in international society. A growing power strives to gain its power, prestige, and position among the comity of nations. A rising power can be a rival, or it supports the status quo of global governance. This review showed that there is no power transition in the global order whereas, Beijing is willing to engage or cooperate with the USA and existing institutions to keep the status quo of the power. China is not in a hasty mood to replace the American global order, but it will continue to push softly for multipolarity.

ASEAN’s External Policy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Marie Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Regional Stability ◽  
China’S Rise ◽  
China's Rise ◽  
Asean Countries

ASEAN has long promoted its key interests in a stable and autonomous Southeast by binding outside powers to ASEAN’s norms and institutions. Today, domestic political change, divergent interests among ASEAN countries, and the changing balance of power in the Asia-Pacific are eroding the ASEAN cohesion necessary for a collective ASEAN external policy. ASEAN policy is based on soft power and therefore is dependent on a stable balance of power. China’s rise has upset that balance, triggering Sino-American tensions and conflicts with some Southeast Asian states. ASEAN’s goals of regional stability and autonomy from great power hegemony are increasingly coming into conflict, which may force ASEAN members to choose between them.

Differentiated Disintegration: Brexit

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-155
Author(s):  
Frank Schimmelfennig ◽  
Thomas Winzen
Keyword(s):  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Economic Interdependence ◽  
British Government ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
The Status ◽  
Cherry Picking ◽  
The Eu

This chapter examines negotiations on differentiated disintegration in the case of Brexit. It includes the efforts of the British government to renegotiate its EU membership prior to the referendum in June 2016 and the subsequent negotiations of the Withdrawal Agreement. The chapter shows that the same factors that explain demand for differentiated integration can also explain demand for differentiated disintegration. However, the supply conditions differ fundamentally. In disintegration negotiations, the EU enjoys the superior institutional bargaining power of the status quo-oriented actor, the superior material bargaining power produced by starkly asymmetrical economic interdependence, and the coherence and unity bestowed by supranational procedures and a common interest in preventing and deterring cherry-picking behaviour.

Securitizing Culture in Chinese Foreign Policy Debates

Asian Survey ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 629-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Chinese Foreign Policy ◽  
China’S Rise ◽  
Cultural Autonomy ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
China's Rise ◽  
Policy Elites

The tendency for Chinese foreign policy elites to securitize culture in international relations by portraying it as a zone of intense contestation with other states suggests that China’s rise will be rocky. Some seek to defend China’s cultural autonomy from American hegemony, others, to establish Chinese domination over weaker states.

Knowledge Super Corridors in Southeast Asia

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Chun Kwong Han
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Information Communications Technology ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Decisions

Developing countries in Asia are in the process of transitioning from a production economy to a knowledge-based economy. Various new knowledge and information communications technology mega-projects are being designed and executed at the international, national, state and industry levels to sustain competitiveness. The structures and processes by which these so-called “knowledge super corridors” are developed and implemented are complex economic-social-political decisions. The author develops an enhanced framework from critical theory, whereby the critical practice lens provides an iterative reflexive process, firstly by developing knowledge for understanding from structuration theory. Secondly, the author provides a critique of underpinning assumptions and presumptions whereby the constraining conditions of the status quo and emancipation become knowable and explicit, that is, knowledge for evaluation. Thirdly, the knowledge for action generated will enable the decision makers to re-create, re-define, re-design, re-imagine, re-invent and re-vision pragmatic, doable and implementable programs to transform a developing country into a k-economy. The author illustrates the value of the enhanced model using two case studies concerned with formulating and implementing a k-economy blueprint and developing a knowledge portal in emerging k-economies in Southeast Asia.

Research Portals

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Becker ◽  
Ralf Knackstedt ◽  
Lukasz Lis ◽  
Armin Stein ◽  
Matthias Steinhorst
Keyword(s):  
Web Search ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
The Status ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
Method Approach ◽  
Knowledge Management Tools

Research portals are a means to present, discuss, and advance scientific findings. They are web-based knowledge management tools for research communities. Research portals foster collaboration among a community of scientists, research funders, and political decision-makers. However, research communities might not possess the knowledge and experience required to design a research portal. The authors support them by analyzing the status quo of existing portals and providing respective improvement perspectives. The authors ask what typical characteristics of such portals are and how these characteristics can be used to evaluate the advancement of individual portals and they seek to distinguish classes of differently advanced research portals and determine their status quo. The authors’ research is based on a systematic web search, during which the authors identify 813 relevant research portals. Following a multi-method approach, they assign each research portal a previously distinguished class of advancement. The authors conclude that research portals generally only offer basic functionality and discuss functionality that is underrepresented in this pool of analyzed research portals and elaborate on improvement perspectives in 11 feature dimensions.

Theories of Intentions and the Problem of Attention

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keren Yarhi-Milo
Keyword(s):  
Selective Attention ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Military Doctrine ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Defense Theory

This chapter outlines the theoretical foundations of the selective attention thesis and three competing ones: the capabilities, strategic military doctrine, and behavior theses. It divides perceived political intentions into five ideal-type categories based on the degree to which the enemy is believed to have the determination required to revise the status quo and the extent of its revisionist intentions: unlimited expansionist, limited expansionist, unlimited opportunistic, limited opportunistic, and status quo powers. The chapter proceeds by offering a set of hypotheses as to how civilian decision makers and intelligence organizations conduct intentions assessment. In particular, it considers the vividness hypothesis, the subjective credibility hypothesis, the organizational expertise hypothesis, and the offense–defense theory. It also explains the methodology used in the three case studies.

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