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Preface; The Question; The Theoretical Arguments; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: The Xi-Ma Summit Meeting and US Interests Across the Taiwan Strait; 1 The KMT-CCP United Front: Committing to "One China"; Consolidating the "1992 Consensus" and Warning Against Taiwan's Independence; Stressing on Common Chinese Heritage; 2 Cross-Strait Rapprochement and Heightened USA-PRC Competition; US Interests Toward the Taiwan Strait: Democracy and Strategic Ambiguity; Is the KMT Too Closely Tied with the PRC?; 3 Main Argument.
The "Second-Image Reversed": External Powers and Domestic PoliticsGreat Power Rivalry and Nation-Building Projects; USA-PRC Relations and Nation Building in Taiwan; The USA and Taiwan; The PRC and Taiwan; Domestic Politics Filters International Systemic Influence: Neoclassical Realism; 4 Plan of the Book; References; Author's Interviews; Chapter 2: Politics Beyond the Water's Edge: Neoclassical Realism; 1 The Theoretical Foundations of Neoclassical Realism; Neoclassical Realism from the Works of Christensen, Dueck, and Layne; Neoclassical Realism and Taiwan-China Relations.
2 Proposing a Neoclassical Realist Explanation of Ma Ying-jeou's China PolicyA Neoclassical Realist Model of Under-balancing: Divided Polity and Fragmented Views on "One China"; 3 Conclusion; References; Author's Interviews; Chapter 3: Defining "One China"; 1 Background; 2 Neoclassical Realism and Social Constructivism; 3 The Evolution of "One China" in Cross-Strait Interactions; The Era of Rigidity, 1949-92; The Hong Kong Meeting in 1992; Equality: "Both Mainland and Taiwan Belong to One China"; Tacitly Accepting the ROC?
Love and Hate Relationship: Beijing Persists to Isolate the ROC Internationally4 Conclusion; References; Author's Interviews; Chapter 4: The KMT Rebuilds the ROC: Useful Foreign Foes and Enemies from Within; 1 The International and Domestic Settings Behind Ma Ying-jeou's Mainland Policy; US-China-Taiwan Relations on the Eve of Ma's Election in 2008; The Ma Administration's Rehabilitation of the ROC as the Central Chinese State; Cross-Strait Relations under the "1992 Consensus"; Naming China; History Curriculum Reform; Shared Chinese Roots.
2 Elite Fragmentations Between the KMT and DPP and Societal DiscontentThe DPP's Position; Rising Societal Taiwan-Centric Sentiments; 3 Conclusion; References; Author's Interviews; Chapter 5: US Strategic Ambiguity, Rising China, and Taiwan's Security; 1 US Position on the Taiwan Issue Since 2008: An Overview; 2 Increasing US Wariness of the KMT's "One-China" Policy; KMT's "One China" and US Interests; The Deterioration of Sino-Japanese Relations since Shinzo Abe's Reemergence in 2012; The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.
The "Second-Image Reversed": External Powers and Domestic PoliticsGreat Power Rivalry and Nation-Building Projects; USA-PRC Relations and Nation Building in Taiwan; The USA and Taiwan; The PRC and Taiwan; Domestic Politics Filters International Systemic Influence: Neoclassical Realism; 4 Plan of the Book; References; Author's Interviews; Chapter 2: Politics Beyond the Water's Edge: Neoclassical Realism; 1 The Theoretical Foundations of Neoclassical Realism; Neoclassical Realism from the Works of Christensen, Dueck, and Layne; Neoclassical Realism and Taiwan-China Relations.
2 Proposing a Neoclassical Realist Explanation of Ma Ying-jeou's China PolicyA Neoclassical Realist Model of Under-balancing: Divided Polity and Fragmented Views on "One China"; 3 Conclusion; References; Author's Interviews; Chapter 3: Defining "One China"; 1 Background; 2 Neoclassical Realism and Social Constructivism; 3 The Evolution of "One China" in Cross-Strait Interactions; The Era of Rigidity, 1949-92; The Hong Kong Meeting in 1992; Equality: "Both Mainland and Taiwan Belong to One China"; Tacitly Accepting the ROC?
Love and Hate Relationship: Beijing Persists to Isolate the ROC Internationally4 Conclusion; References; Author's Interviews; Chapter 4: The KMT Rebuilds the ROC: Useful Foreign Foes and Enemies from Within; 1 The International and Domestic Settings Behind Ma Ying-jeou's Mainland Policy; US-China-Taiwan Relations on the Eve of Ma's Election in 2008; The Ma Administration's Rehabilitation of the ROC as the Central Chinese State; Cross-Strait Relations under the "1992 Consensus"; Naming China; History Curriculum Reform; Shared Chinese Roots.
2 Elite Fragmentations Between the KMT and DPP and Societal DiscontentThe DPP's Position; Rising Societal Taiwan-Centric Sentiments; 3 Conclusion; References; Author's Interviews; Chapter 5: US Strategic Ambiguity, Rising China, and Taiwan's Security; 1 US Position on the Taiwan Issue Since 2008: An Overview; 2 Increasing US Wariness of the KMT's "One-China" Policy; KMT's "One China" and US Interests; The Deterioration of Sino-Japanese Relations since Shinzo Abe's Reemergence in 2012; The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.