European Perspectives on Taiwan

Jens Damm is currently an Assistant Professor at Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, on leave from Freie Universitat Berlin. His research interests are gender and ethnicity related issues in Taiwan, Greater China including the PRC, and the impact of new communication technologies. Paul Lim is currently Professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Head of the Centre for European Studies at the Institute for Occidental Studies. His research is mainly focused on the External Relations of the European Union, with Asia, in particular, in all its different facets.

"Insgesamt wird eine erhellende Ubersicht sowohl uber die besondere Stellung Taiwans im Spannungsfeld der Interessen der Volksrepublik [China] als auch uber die taiwanesisch-europaischen Beziehungen vermittelt." Portal fur Politikwissenschaft (www.pw-portal.de), 28.06.2012

• Foreword.- Introduction: European Perspectives on Taiwan.- Europe and the Historical, Political and Social Development of Taiwan.- Taiwan in the Context of Global Strategic Considerations.- Taiwan, the European Union and International Organizations.- Cross-Strait Relations vis-à-vis the European Integration Process.