Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation
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About the talk:
Despite maintaining de facto sovereignty, states like Taiwan find themselves unrecognized
in today’s international system because another power claims the state as part of
their territory. This fraught status, in turn, significantly affects the domestic
politics of these places. This talk will explore Taiwan’s political landscape after
the 2014 Sunflower Movement, bringing a fresh perspective to understanding social
movement mobilization and political party formation in “contested states.” In these
states, political cleavages are defined not by traditional left-right issues but by
questions of identity, territory, and what to do about the country that claims them.
About the speaker:
Lev Nachman is an assistant professor in the Graduate Institute of National Development
at National Taiwan University. He was previously the Hou Family Postdoctoral Research
Fellow in Taiwan Studies at the Harvard Fairbank Center and holds his Ph.D. in political
science from the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on political
participation in Taiwan and Hong Kong, Cross-Strait relations, and U.S.-Taiwan relations.
Nachman is frequently quoted in The New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg, the BBC, and The
Guardian, and he is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council and the National
Bureau of Asian Research.
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