Professor of Political Science
Year Joined RCNJ: 2012
Contact Information
- Phone: (201) 684-7755
- Email: dchen@ramapo.edu
- Office: B-203
- Office Hours: T 2:00-5:00 pm; Also By Appt
Education:
- B.A., San Francisco State University
- M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
- Ph.D.,聽University of California, Santa Barbara
Courses Offered:
- International Politics
- United Nations: World Politics
- China: History, Politics, and Culture
- Introduction to Political Science
- Studies in Arts & Humanities
- U.S. China Relations
- East Asia: History and Politics
- American Foreign Policy
- China’s Political Economy in the Digital Age
Teaching Interests:
- International Relations
- U.S. Foreign Policy
- China/East Asian Politics
- Foreign Relations
Research Interests:
- U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations
- Foreign Policy Decision-Making
- International Politics
Scholarly Activity:
Books
- U.S.-China-Taiwan in the Age of Trump and Biden: Towards a Nationalist Strategy (London/New York: Routledge, 2022).
- U.S.-China Rivalry and Taiwan鈥檚 Mainland Policy: Security, Nationalism, and the 1992 Consensus (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
- U.S. Taiwan Strait Policy: The Origins of Strategic Ambiguity (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012).
Journal Articles
- “International Crises and China鈥檚 Technonationalist Strategies: Chiang Kai-shek鈥檚 Prewar S&T Planning vs. Xi Jinping鈥檚 amid U.S.-PRC Rivalry,”聽Asian Politics & Policy听(蹿辞谤迟丑肠辞尘颈苍驳).
- 鈥淐hina鈥檚 Leninist State and Strategic Relations with the United States: Chiang鈥檚 KMT in Nanjing Decade and Implications for the Chinese Communist Party after 1949,鈥 Asian Politics & Policy聽15, no. 4 (2023), pp. 668-701.
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“Learning the Wrong Lessons from Ukraine? Sources of Beijing’s Misperceptions and Tensions across the Taiwan Strait”(coauthored with Yao-Yuan Yeh),聽American Journal of Chinese Studies聽29, no. 2 (2022), pp. 171-180.
- 鈥淭he End of Liberal Engagement with China and the New U.S.-Taiwan Focus,鈥澛Pacific Focus聽35, no. 3 (2020), pp. 397-435.
- 鈥淭he Trump Administration鈥檚 One-China Policy: Tilting toward Taiwan in an Era of U.S.-PRC Rivalry?鈥 Asian Politics & Policy 11, no. 2 (2019), pp. 250-278.
- 鈥淟iberal Internationalism, Jacksonian Nationalism, and the US 鈥極ne-China鈥 Policy,鈥 Asian Survey聽57, no. 5 (2017), pp. 885-909.
- 鈥淯.S.-China Rivalry and the Weakening of the KMT鈥檚 鈥1992 Consensus鈥 Policy: Second-Image Reversed, Revisited,鈥 Asian Survey 56, no. 4 (2016), pp. 754-778.
- 鈥淪ecurity, Domestic Divisions, and the KMT鈥檚 Post-2008 鈥極ne China鈥 Policy: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis,鈥 International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 15, no. 2 (2015), pp. 319-365.
- 鈥淐onstructing Peaceful Development: The Changing Interpretations of 鈥極ne China鈥 and Beijing鈥檚 Taiwan Strait Policy,鈥 Asian Security 10, no. 1 (2014), pp. 22-46.
- 鈥淭he Strategic Implications of Ma Ying-jeou鈥檚 鈥極ne ROC, Two Areas鈥 Policy on Cross-Strait Relations,鈥 American Journal of Chinese Studies 20, no. 1 (2013), pp. 23-41.
Book Chapters
- 鈥淥n Route to Greater Strategic Clarity on Taiwan: Obama, Trump, and Biden,鈥 (coauthored with Yao-Yuan Yeh) in Yao-Yuan Yeh and Charles K.S. Wu, eds.,聽New Developments in the Trilateral Relationship between the United States, Taiwan, and China (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2025), pp. 97-123.
- “U.S.聽Industrial Policy for the 21st Century: The Washington-Taipei Techno-Democracy Partnership amidst Chip Rivalry with聽Beijing,” in Peter C. Y. Chow ed.,聽Technology Rivalry between the USA and China (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), pp. 27-57.
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“Xi Jinping and the Derailment of the KMT-CCP ‘1992 Consensus,’鈥 in Qiang Fang & Xiaobing Li, eds.,聽China under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment聽(Leiden University Press, 2024), pp. 223鈥252.
- “Competitions and Coalitions: An Emerging U.S. Domestic Nationalist Consensus, Executive Branch Prerogatives, and the Taiwan Strait Tensions,” in Wei-chin Lee, ed.,聽Protests, Pandemic, and Security Predicaments: Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and the U.S. in the 2020s聽(Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), pp. 347-396.
- 鈥淔ascism with Chinese Characteristics: Chiang Kai-shek鈥檚 Nationalist Vision in the 1930s and Implications for U.S.-PRC Rivalry Today,鈥 in Shiping Hua, ed.,聽Chinese Ideology聽(New York: Routledge, 2022), pp.111-130.
- 鈥淭rump, Biden, and China: From a Wilsonian World Order to Jacksonian Nationalism,鈥 in Shiping Hua, ed., The Political Logic of the U.S.-China Trade War (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), pp. 257-277.
- 鈥淚n the Shadow of Great-Power Rivalry,鈥 in Kharis Templeman, Yun-han Chu, and Larry Diamond, eds., Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2020), pp. 361-383.
- 鈥淔oreign Policies of East Asia,鈥 (coauthored with Dennis V. Hickey) in Shiping Hua, ed., Routledge Handbook of Politics in Asia (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 76-97.
- 鈥淎n Indispensable Pillar of Obama鈥檚 鈥楶ivot鈥 to Asia: Continuing Strategic Ambiguity across the Taiwan Strait,鈥 in Peter Chow ed., The U.S. Strategic Pivot to Asia and Cross-Strait Relations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 31-54.
- 鈥淭he Evolution of Taiwan鈥檚 Policies toward the Political Participation of Citizens Abroad in Homeland Governance,鈥 (coauthored with Pei-te Lien) in Tan Chee-Beng, ed., Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora (New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 42-58.
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