Friday, October 24, 2008

International House1414 E. 59th St.

Chicago, IL. 60637

Opportunities and Challenges for President Ma Ying-jeou’s Government

Taiwan’s New Approach:

Co-sponsored by

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago

Schedule of Presentations8:30-8:45 Registration and breakfast

8:45-9:00 Introduction and Welcome: Professor Dali L. Yang, University of Chicago Mr. Thomas T. S. Cheng, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago

9:00-11:00 Panel 1: Taiwan’s Participations in International Affairs Chair: Professor Te-Yu Wang, Illinois State University

Panelist: Professor Chong-Pin Lin, Tamkang University Paper: “Sightful Carrot and Shrouded Stick: Beijing’s Adjusted Taiwan Policy” Discussant: Professor John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago Panelist: Professor Shelley Rigger, Davidson College Paper: “The Domestic Politics of Taiwan’s Foreign Policy” Discussant: Professor Tun-jen Cheng, The College of William and Mary

11:-00-11:20 Break

11:20-12:20 Panel 2: Political Engagement between Taiwan and Mainland China Chair: Professor Chong-Pin Lin, Tamkang University Panelist: Professor Edward I-Hsin Chen, Tamkang University Paper: “The Cross-Strait Political Engagement After KMT’s Comeback” Discussant: Professor Dennis Hickey, Missouri State University

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:10-4:10 Panelist: Professor Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang, University of Richmond Paper: “Taiwan’s Foreign and Mainland policies under President Ma Ying-jeou: Preliminary Observations” Discussant: Dr. David Kopel, Independence Institute Panelist: Professor Dennis Hickey, Missouri State University Paper: “President Ma’s Chief Challenges: Taiwan, the Chinese Mainland and America” Discussant: Professor Shelley Rigger, Davidson College

4:10-4:30 Break

4:30-6:30 Panel 3: Economic Development between Taiwan and Mainland China Chair: Professor Edward I-Hsin Chen, Tamkang University

Panelist: Dr. David Kopel, Independence Institute Paper: “Poisoned Milk and the Poisoning of Democracy: Some Cautions about China Trade and Taiwan Sovereignty” Discussant: Professor Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang, University of Richmond Panelist: Professor Tun-jen Cheng, The College of William and Mary Paper: “Cross-Strait Economic Linkage: New Parameters” Discussant: Professor Te-Yu Wang, Illinois State University

6:30-7:10 Conclusion: Professor Dali L. Yang

7:20-9:00 Welcome Dinner in the Coulter Lounge Co-hosted by Professor Dali L. Yang and Mr. Thomas T. S. Cheng Keynote Speech: “The U.S. and R.O.C.: A Fresh Start“ Deputy Representative Ta-tung Jacob Chang, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States

Ta-tung Jacob ChangDeputy Representative, Taipei economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United StatesDeputy Representative, KMT-PFP Representative Office, U.S.A. (2004-2008); Director of Congressional Liaison Division, Taipei (2003-2004); Director of the Secretariat/Political Affairs Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S. (1999-2003); Deputy Director of the Public Affairs/Congressional Liaison Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Rep-resentative Office in the U.S. (1997-1999); Section Chief, Senior Specialist, Deputy Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. (1994-1997).

Edward I-Hsin ChenProfessor of Politics and American Studies at Tamkang University; Director, Graduate Institute of American Studies at Tamkang University (2000-2004); Member of Legislative Yuan, R.O.C. in Taiwan (1996-1999).

Thomas T. S. Cheng Director-General of TECO-Chicago (2003-current). Joined ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971. Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before coming to Chicago. Served as Director-General of TECO in Boston (U.S.A) and Toronto (Canada). Other overseas assignments have taken him to Thailand, Dominica, and Swaziland.

Tun-jen ChengProfessor of International Affairs, Department of Government, The College of William and Mary; Director of Pacific Asia Program, Chair of East Asian Studies Program (William and Mary); Editor-in-chief of American Asian Review; Visiting Scholar at University of Tsukuba, Japan; Associate Visiting Professor at University of Michigan, Ann ArborPublications: Newly Industrializing East Asia in Transition (co-author); Political Change in Taiwan (co-editor); Inherited Rivalry (co-editor); The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific (co-editor); New Leadership and New Agenda (co-editor); and Religious Organizations and Democracy in Contemporary Asia.

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Dali L. Yang Professor of Political Science and Director of The Center for East Asian Studies, University of ChicagoPreviously served as Director of the East Asian Institute at the National Uni-versity of Singapore; Chairman of the Political Science Department, Univer-sity of Chicago; former Director the Committee on International Relations, University of Chicago.Publications: Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China; Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine.As editor or co-editor: “Discontented Miracle” in World Scientific; Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in Post-Deng China; and “China’s Reforms at 30: Challenges and Prospects” in World Scientific.

Conference Participants

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John J. MearsheimerR. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.Publications: Conventional Deterrence; Liddell Hart and the Weight of His-tory; The Tragedy of Great Power Politics; and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (with Stephen M. Walt).

Shelley RiggerBrown Professor of East Asian Politics, Department of Political Science, Davidson College; Visiting Associate Professor, School of International Relations and Public Administration, Fudan University, Shanghai, Spring 2006; Visiting Research Scholar, Institute for International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, Fall 2005.Publications: Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy; From Opposition to Power: Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party.

Te-Yu WangProfessor of Political Science, Illinois State UniversityPublications: Quantitative Analysis in Political Science (in Chinese); China after the 16th Party Congress: Prospects and Challenges (ed); “Taiwan’s National Identity and Democratization” (guest editor, Journal of Asian and African Studies), “The Effects of Political Participation on Political Efficacy,“ Taiwanese Political Science Review (in Chinese, with Ching-Hsing Wang); and “Political Tolerance in a Democracy under External Threats,” Political Research Quarterly (with G. Andy Chang).

Vincent Wei-Cheng WangAssociate Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of RichmondPublication: “Taiwan’s Security Strategy: Conventional Deterrence, the Nuclear Option, and Soft Power,” in Muthiah Alaggapa, eds., Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia (forthcoming).

Dennis V. HickeyJames D. Morris Endowed Professor of Political Science and Director of the Graduate Program in International Studies at Missouri State University; Fulbright Scholar at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing; China Research Associate at San Francisco State University’s Center for US-China Policy Studies; Editorial Board Member of The Journal of Chinese Political Science and Taiwan Defense Affairs.Publications: Foreign Policy Making in Taiwan: From Principle to Pragma-tism; Armies of East Asia China, Taiwan, Japan and the Koreas; Taiwan’s Security in the Changing International System; US-Taiwan Security Ties.

David KopelResearch Director of the Independence Institute, a public policy research organization in Golden, Colorado; Associate Policy Analyst with the Cato Institute; Media critic for the Saturday Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post; Regular panelist on Channel 12’s “Colorado Inside Out;” Blogger on the Volokh Conspiracy (the world’s #8 weblog)Publications: The Samurai, the Mountie and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies?

Chong-Pin LinProfessor, Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Stud-ies, Tamkang University. Formerly served as Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of National Defense and was the first Vice Chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council. Publications: China’s Nuclear Weapons Strategy; and Yizhi Qusheng [Win With Wisdom]; Bejing’s New Grand Strategy: An Offensive with Extra-Mili-tary Instruments.

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