Preface
About the Author
Introduction
Part One / Historical and Contemporary Facts
1 Historical Background
2 Taiwan's Contemporary Landscape
Part Two / Articulation of Goals and Policy Considerations
3 Clarification of Common Interests
4 The Evolution of Taiwan Statehood
5 U.S. Constitutional Issues Concerning the Taiwan Relations
Act
Part Three / Trends in Development and Conditioning Factors
6 U.S.- Taiwan Relations
7 U.S.-China Relations
8 Taiwan-China Relations
Part Four / Projections of Probable Future Developments
9 A Developing U.S.-China Rivalry?
10 Possible Future Developments for Taiwan
Part Five / Recommendations of Policy Alternatives
11 Recommendations of Policy Alternatives
12 Let the People of Taiwan Decide Taiwan's Future
Suggested Readings in English
Suggested Readings in Chinese
Text of Selected Documents
Index
Lung-chu Chen is an internationally recognized scholar and
Professor of Law at New York Law School, specializing in
international law, human rights, and the United Nations. He
previously served as Research Associate, Senior Research Associate,
and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. He received his
LL.B. with first-place honors from National Taiwan University, his
LL.M. from Northwestern University, and his LL.M. and J.S.D. from
Yale
University. While still a junior at the National Taiwan University,
he ranked first of some four thousand participants in Taiwan's
national examination for judgeship and other high governmental
posts-a unique distinction in
Taiwan's history.
He is founder and chairman of the Taiwan New Century Foundation (a
think tank), founder and president of the New Century Institute
(New York), and charter president and honorary president of the
Taiwan United Nations Alliance (TAIUNA). He is a board member of
the Policy Sciences Center, a former president of the Taiwanese
Society of International Law, and a former national policy adviser
to the president of Taiwan.
Formerly he was also chairman of the section on international law
of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the
executive council of the American Society of International Law, a
director of the American Society of Comparative Law, and a member
of the editorial board of its journal (American Journal of
Comparative Law). He was chief editor of Human Rights, published by
the American Bar Association Section on Individual Rights and
Responsibilities. In addition, he served as vice
president and a member of the governing council of the
International League for Human Rights and president of the North
America Taiwanese Professors' Association. He was a principal
lecturer at the
International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, a training
center for human rights experts founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner
René Cassin.
His publications include Membership for Taiwan in the United
Nations: Achieving Justice and Universality (editor), An
Introduction to Contemporary International Law, Human Rights and
World Public Order (with Myres S. McDougal and Harold D. Lasswell),
and Formosa, China, and the United Nations (with Harold D.
Lasswell). In addition, he has written and edited numerous books
and articles in Chinese. Currently he is general editor of a series
of books relating to
the U.N. system published under the auspices of the Taiwan
Institute for U.N. Studies, a project of the Taiwan New Century
Foundation. He is also editor in chief of New Century Think Tank
Forum, a quarterly in Chinese published jointly
by the Taiwan New Century Foundation and the New Century Institute.
"Professor Chen provides a sophisticated political-legal analysis
of Taiwan's international status that will inform readers on all
sides of this issue, together with a deeply informed brief for its
independent statehood on both political and legal grounds. A
valuable feature of the book is its detailed analysis of the
origins and meaning of the Taiwan Relations Act, by which Congress
set down the enduring principles that govern American Taiwan
policy." -Andrew
J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia
University
"A most profound and important exposition of the evolution of a
free and democratic Taiwan committed to human rights and political
self-determination for twenty-three million Taiwanese; significant
past, present, and projected relations with the United States and
China; and common interests and opportunities regarding peace,
human security, economic progress, and human dignity in the Asia
Pacific region. This timely study also provides compelling
recommendations for political action, including a plebiscite
through which the Taiwanese people can 'define their international
status.'" -Jordan J. Paust, Law Center, University of Houston
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