Brief Biography

I am currently a research fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies at Academia Sinica. I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Florida. I have been a postdoctoral research associate at the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (http://cwp.princeton.edu/people/chi-hung-wei).


My research and teaching interests include the U.S.-China-Taiwan triangle, international relations theory, economic statecraft, the politics of resource wealth, and ethnic conflict in Latin America. My work has been published in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, International Political Science Review, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and others.

For further information, please visit my website (https://sites.google.com/site/chwei615/), or contact me at chwei@sinica.edu.tw. 

 

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Political Science, University of Florida, August 2013
• M.A., Political Science, National Cheng-chi University, Taiwan, June 2002
• B.A., Journalism, Fu-jen Catholic University, Taiwan, June 2000

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, Princeton University, 2015−2016
• Graduate Instructor, University of Florida, 2011−2013

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations
• International Relations Theory
• Ethnic Politics in Latin America
• Economic Statecraft

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

“The U.S. Securitization of the 1992 Consensus—Security Speech Acts and Threat Inflation, 2011-2012.” EurAmerica, Vol. 48, No. 3 (September 2018), pp. 387-427. 

“Identities, Rationality, and Taiwan’s China Policy: The Dynamics of Cross-Strait Exchanges.” Asian Studies Review, Vol. 41, No. 1 (March 2017), pp. 136–154 (co-authored with Christian J. Lai). 

“Oil, Urbanization, and ‘Pacted’ Ethnic Politics: Indigenous Movements in Latin America.” International Political Science Review, Vol. 37, No. 2 (March 2016), pp. 230–245.

“China-Taiwan Relations and the 1992 Consensus, 2000−2008.” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol. 16, No. 1 (January 2016), pp. 67–95.

“Producing and Reproducing the 1992 Consensus: The Sociolinguistic Construction of the Political Economy of China-Taiwan Relations.” Asian Security, Vol. 11, No. 1 (March 2015), pp. 72–88.

“Engaging a State that Resists Sanctions Pressure: U.S. Policy toward China, 1992−1994.” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 43, No. 2 (January 2015), pp. 429–449.

“China’s Economic Offensive and Taiwan’s Defensive Measures: Cross-Strait Fruit Trade, 2005–2008.” The China Quarterly, No. 215 (September 2013), pp. 641–662.

Book Chapters

“Coercive Engagement: Lessons from US Policy towards China.” In J. Samuel Barkin (ed.), The Social Construction of State Power: Applying Realist Constructivism (London: Bristol University Press, 2000), pp. 123–144.

Book Reviews

“From Wealth to Power: State-Business Relations and Chinese Economic Statecraft.” International Studies Review, Vol. 19, No. 3 (September 2017), pp. 526–528.

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