Governing Taiwan and Tibet: Democratic Approaches
Baogang He
Abstract
This book is devoted to a search for democratic governance of China’s national identity problem, with regards to the Taiwan and Tibet questions specifically. It adopts a democratic approach and argues that liberals can offer a democratic solution, defend democratic principles, and develop democratic governance.
This book problematizes the existing hard-liners’ realist policies towards Tibet and Taiwan, and examines how and under what conditions democracy can or cannot provide an answer. It examines the different meanings, practices, institutions and various impacts of democracy with regards to ... More
This book is devoted to a search for democratic governance of China’s national identity problem, with regards to the Taiwan and Tibet questions specifically. It adopts a democratic approach and argues that liberals can offer a democratic solution, defend democratic principles, and develop democratic governance.
This book problematizes the existing hard-liners’ realist policies towards Tibet and Taiwan, and examines how and under what conditions democracy can or cannot provide an answer. It examines the different meanings, practices, institutions and various impacts of democracy with regards to the problem of China’s national identity. It provides a systematic analysis of different forms of the democratic approach and their likely impacts. In particular, it presents the difficulties and obstacles to the democratic approach to the Tibet and Taiwan questions, but it still searches for some political space in which democratic governance can work.
Keywords:
national identity problem,
Taiwan and Tibet,
democratic approach,
democratic governance,
deliberative referendum,
liberalism,
China,
autonomy,
independence,
separation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780748699711 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2017 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748699711.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Baogang He, author
Head of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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