Lev Nachman is assistant professor in the Graduate Institute of National Development at National Taiwan University and coauthor, with Jonathan Sullivan, of Taiwan: A Contested Democracy under Threat.

"Contested Taiwan unfolds a clear conceptual framework of state contestation and an argument for movement party formation in a contested state . . . undoubtedly an important work for the scholarship of both Taiwan politics and state contestation. Its significance does not end with merely providing a rich but concise empirical account of Taiwan's political configurations. More importantly, by specifying how Taiwan's contested status shapes its domestic politics, Contested Taiwan also demystifies Taiwan's perceived 'uniqueness' in terms of its sovereignty status and situates Taiwan within the scholarship of state contestation—a macro comparative framework where other countries (e.g., Ukraine, Kosovo, Somaliland, etc.) can also be included."

Lev Nachman is assistant professor in the Graduate Institute of National Development at National Taiwan University and coauthor, with Jonathan Sullivan, of Taiwan: A Contested Democracy under Threat.

"Contested Taiwan unfolds a clear conceptual framework of state contestation and an argument for movement party formation in a contested state . . . undoubtedly an important work for the scholarship of both Taiwan politics and state contestation. Its significance does not end with merely providing a rich but concise empirical account of Taiwan's political configurations. More importantly, by specifying how Taiwan's contested status shapes its domestic politics, Contested Taiwan also demystifies Taiwan's perceived 'uniqueness' in terms of its sovereignty status and situates Taiwan within the scholarship of state contestation—a macro comparative framework where other countries (e.g., Ukraine, Kosovo, Somaliland, etc.) can also be included."