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Article: Taiwan in a Changing World: Search for Security
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- The China Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Australian National University, Contemporary China Centre Jul 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Taiwan in a Changing World: Search for Security, by Harish Kapur. Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2004. xvi + 249 pp. US$13.50 (paperback), US$4.95 (e-book).
This inexpensive book endeavors to provide an assessment of Taiwan's foreign policy along with a review of related developments in Taiwan since Chiang Kaishek retreated to the island in 1949. There has been a need among students and specialists with an interest in Taiwan for a book-length English-language assessment of Taiwan's foreign policy, but sadly this book cannot be recommended to either students or specialists.
Harish Kapur admits at the outset that the study is "brief and "tentative" (p. xi). The first chapter offers his views of ...