缅北重口

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

• 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.
• “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.
• “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.

Op Ed Articles

• 鈥淲hat the Disappearance of the 鈥極ne China鈥� Policy from Trump鈥檚 2025 NSS Means for Taiwan,鈥澛�The Diplomat聽(December 15, 2025),聽.
• 鈥淲ill a Kamala Harris Administration Continue Biden鈥檚 Greater Clarity on Taiwan?鈥澛�The Diplomat聽(August 6, 2024),聽.
• 鈥淲hat to Make of Biden鈥檚 Latest Promise to Defend Taiwan,鈥澛�The Diplomat聽(June 7, 2024),聽.
• 鈥淲hat Will China Do Now on Taiwan?鈥澛�The National Interest聽(January 17, 2024)聽.
• 鈥淭aiwan鈥檚 Upcoming 2024 Presidential Election and the Biden-Xi Summit in San Francisco,鈥澛�The National Interest聽(November 11, 2023)聽.
• 鈥淯.S-China Relations Remain Fragile Despite Blinken鈥檚 Visit,鈥澛�The National Interest聽(June 22, 2023),聽.
• 鈥淒on鈥檛 Give聽an Inch: Biden and Xi Facedown at Bali,鈥澛�The National Interest聽(November 15, 2022)聽.
• 鈥淧elosi鈥檚 Taiwan Visit Is Less than Meets the Eye,鈥澛�The National Interest聽(August 1, 2022)聽.
• 鈥淣o, Biden Hasn鈥檛 Abandoned Strategic Ambiguity on Taiwan,鈥澛�The National Interest聽(May 27, 2022)聽.
• 鈥淲hy U.S. 鈥楽trategic Ambiguity鈥� on Taiwan Isn鈥檛 Going Away,鈥澛�The National Interest聽(April 13, 2021)聽.