篇名 | Domestic Politics of Foreign Policy: Explaining the Formulation of Taiwan's “Participate in the U.N.” Policy |
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卷期 | 42:1 |
作者 | 關弘昌 |
頁次 | 137-162 |
關鍵字 | Taiwan 、 Foreign policy 、 United Nations 、 Participate in the U. N. policy 、 Pragmatic diplomacy 、 MEDLINE 、 Scopus |
出刊日期 | 200603 |
In April 1993, President Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan announced his bid to join the United Nations, the “participate in the U.N.” policy. In this paper I explain why Lee launched this policy and how it was formulated. Contrary to the structural realists' claim that state actions are steered by the structure of the international system, I argue that the momentum of the “participate in the U.N.” policy lay in Taiwanese domestic politics. More specifically, the policy was mainly a product of Taiwan's party politics, while its formulation was closely associated with the internal politics of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT).