Globalization and Security Relations across the Taiwan Strait: In the Shadow of China Edited by Ming-Chin Monique Chu and Scott L. Kastner London and New York: Routledge, 2015 xxiii + 239 pp. £38.00 ISBN 978-1-138-23669-1

What is it about?

Book review of: Globalization and Security Relations across the Taiwan Strait: In the Shadow of China, edited by Ming-Chin Monique Chu and Scott L. Kastner (London and New York: Routledge, 2015)

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Why is it important?

Taken in sum, each chapter advances the reader’s understanding of how the cross-Strait relationship is simultaneously characterized by rapid globalization and persistent security challenges. No two chapters are alike in methodology or argument, yielding an intellectually diverse and stimulating text. Overall, this volume convincingly advances our understanding of cross-Strait security relations amid globalization, offering an important contribution at the nexus of academic research and policy. Some chapters apply theoretical analyses to security issues; others offer analyses of understudied facets of the cross-Strait relationship or link economic globalization and security challenges. Globalization and Security across the Taiwan Strait is accessible and likely to be an important resource for students, academics and policy practitioners seeking to understand the immediate past as a tool for the present-day relationship between China and Taiwan.