Faculty Information - CHEN Ching-Chang

■ Education

1.	2004/09～2008/09	〔Doctorial Course〕 International Politics, Aberystwyth University, Department of International Politics, Completed, PhD in International Politics
2.	2003/09～2004/09	〔Master Course〕 International Politics (ResearchTraining), Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, Completed, MScEcon in International Politics (Research Training)
3.	2000/09～2003/09	〔Master Course〕 International Relations, Department of Diplomacy, National Chengchi University, Completed, LLM
4.	1994/10～1998/06	Department of Political Science, Faculty of Laws, National Taiwan University, Graduated, BA

■ Academic and professional experience

1.	2022/04～2025/03	Ryukoku University Faculty of International Stuidies Professor
2.	2015/04～2022/03	Ryukoku University Faculty of International Studies Associate Professor
3.	2012/10～2015/03	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of Asia Pacific Studies Associate Professor
4.	2009/09～2012/09	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of Asia Pacific Studies Assistant Professor

■ Current specialized field

Politics, International relations, Area studies

■ Books and theses

1.	2025/03/13	Article	Rethinking the Climate Crisis Here and Now: Mahāyāna Buddhism, Engi Relationality, and the Familiar Pitfalls in Japanese and Taiwanese pro-Nuclear Energy Narratives Czech Journal of International Relations 60(1),pp.157-186 (Collaboration)
2.	2024/10/21	Article	Reimagining IR’s biomedical foundations: East Asian medicine and the need for cosmological plurality Cambridge Review of International Affairs pp.1-23 (Collaboration)
3.	2024/04/13	Article	Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years The China Journal 91(1),pp.104-105 (Single)
4.	2024/03/05	Article	Political healing in East Asian international relations: what, why and how Third World Quarterly 45(6),pp.1-16 (Collaboration)
5.	2023/01/20	Article	Defending the islands, defending the self: Taiwan, sovereignty and the origin of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute as ontological security-seeking The Pacific Review 37(2),pp.301-327 (Collaboration)
6.	2022/12/15	Article	Embodying the state differently in a Westphalian world: an ontological exit for the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute Third World Quarterly 45(6),pp.1122-1140 (Collaboration)
7.	2022/07/28	Article	Forum: Searching for a Global Solidarity: A Collective Auto-Ethnography of Early-Career Women Researchers in the Asia-Pacific International Studies Perspectives 24(1),pp.88-114 (Collaboration)
8.	2022/05/27	Article	These islands are ours: the social constructions of territorial disputes in Northeast Asia Journal of Borderlands Studies 37(3),pp.657-658 (Single)
9.	2021/08/11	Article	Rethinking China–Taiwan relations as a yin–yang imbalance: political healing by Taiwanese Buddhist organisations Third World Quarterly 45(6),pp.1141-1158 (Collaboration)
10.	2019/07	Article	International relations from the margins: the Westphalian meta-narratives and counter-narratives in Okinawa–Taiwan relations Cambridge Review of International Affairs 32(4),pp.521-540 (Collaboration)
11.	2019/04	Book	China and International Theory: The Balance of Relationships Routledge pp.1-302 (Collaboration)
12.	2018/12	Article	Christian Wirth, Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics Social Science Japan Journal 22(1),pp.179-182 (Single)
13.	2018/03	Article	Sheila A. Smith, Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China Journal of Chinese Political Science 23(1),pp.147-149 (Single)
14.	2017/04	Book	Taiwan’s Inconsistent Involvement in China’s Maritime Disputes under the ‘One China’ Institution Regional Institutions, Geopolitics and Economics in the Asia-Pacific: Evolving Interests and Strategies pp.75-92 (Single)
15.	2017/02	Book	The Diaoyutai/Senkaku Islands Dispute: An Ethos of Appropriateness and China’s ‘Loss’ of Ryukyu Asia in International Relations: Unlearning Imperial Power Relations pp.75-85 (Single)
16.	2016/02/09	Book	Theory Critical Imaginations in International Relations pp.245-261 (Collaboration)
17.	2016/01/01	Book	East Asia: Understanding the broken harmony in confucian Asia The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace pp.350-362 (Single)
18.	2015/05	Book	“The Weakest Link? Explaining Taiwan’s Response to the U.S. Rebalancing Strategy.” United States Engagement in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives from Asia pp.89-14 (Single)
19.	2015/02	Book	Common Interest Without Coordination The North Korea Crisis and Regional Responses, edited by Utpal Vyas, Ching-Chang Chen, and Denny Roy pp.160-164 (Collaboration)
20.	2015/02	Book	The North Korea Crisis and Regional Responses pp.1-168 (Collaboration)
21.	2015/02	Book	Unwitting Bedfellows: Taiwan and the North Korea Problem The North Korea Crisis and Regional Responses, edited by Utpal Vyas, Ching-Chang Chen, and Denny Roy pp.145-159 (Single)
22.	2014/07	Book	How Can They Theorize? Strategic Insensitivity toward Nascent Chinese International Relations Thinking in Taiwan Asian Thought on China's Changing International Relations, edited by Niv Horesh and Emilian Kavalski pp.205-229 (Collaboration)
23.	2014/04	Article	History as a Mirror: What Does the Demise of Ryukyu Mean for the Sino-Japanese Diaoyu/ Senkaku Islands Dispute? Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs 19(1),pp.87-105 (Single)
24.	2012/07	Article	The Im/Possibility of Building Indigenous Theories in a Hegemonic Discipline: The Case of Japanese International Relations ASIAN PERSPECTIVE 36(3),pp.463-492 (Single)
25.	2012/01/01	Book	Useful adversaries: How to understand the political economy of cross-Strait security New Thinking about the Taiwan Issue: Theoretical Insights into its Origins, Dynamics, and Prospects pp.48-70 (Single)
26.	2011/01	Article	The absence of non-western IR theory in Asia reconsidered INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC 11(1),pp.1-23 (Single)
27.	2010/12	Article	Understanding the Political Economy of Cross-Strait Security: A Missing Link Journal of Chinese Political Science 15(4),pp.391-412 (Single)
28.	2009/09	Article	When Is China's Military Modernization Dangerous? Constructing the Cross-Strait Offense-Defense Balance and US Arms Sales to Taiwan ISSUES & STUDIES 45(3),pp.69-119 (Single)
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■ Academic or professional association memberships

1.		Japanese Political Science Association
2.		Japan Association for International Relations
3.		International Studies Association
4.		European International Studies Association

■ Conference presentations

1.	2025/03	Railway technology in the construction of postimperial Japanese and postcolonial Taiwanese identity: What does it mean to be both ‘Shinkansen’ and ‘Taiwan’? (International Studies Association Annual Convention)
2.	2025/03	Rethinking the Climate Crisis Here and Now: Mahāyāna Buddhism, Engi Relationality, and the Familiar Pitfalls in Japanese and Taiwanese Pro-Nuclear Energy Narratives (International Studies Association Annual Convention)
3.	2025/02	Reconnecting IR’s Dichotomized Metatheoretical Foundations through Qi: A Daoist Intervention in Thinking about Power and Relationality (Conference on Metatheoretical Knowledge Cultivation)
4.	2024/11	Reconnecting IR’s Dichotomized Metatheoretical Foundations through Qi: A Daoist Intervention in Thinking about Power and Relationality (Asia Pacific Conference)
5.	2024/09	Before the 'Indo-Pacific': The Taiwan Expedition (1874), Japanese imperialism, and the construction of maritime order in East Asia (East-West Forum)
6.	2024/07	Reporting Taiwan, Rediscovering Japan? Representations of Taiwan by Conservative Japanese Media as an Identity Strategy (World International Studies Committee World Congress)
7.	2024/04	Why is relationality inherently embodied (and why does it matter for International Relations)? (International Studies Association Annual Convention)
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■ Works

1.	2023/03/07	The Impact of the Russo-Ukrainian War on Security in East Asia: The Taiwan Strait and Beyond (Vienna)
2.	2020/02/26	Narrating East Asian International Relations from the Margins (New York City)

■ Research topic, funded research and KAKENHI

1.	2018～2023	Reconciliation: Treating Asia's Border Traumas with Traditional Medical Analogy (Key Word : )
2.	2016/04～2019/03	Can "Confucian Diplomacy" Exist in Westphalian International Relations? (Key Word : )
3.	2015/04～2018/03	A Collaborative Research of Asian Studies and Asian IR for a New Governance Theories (Key Word : )
4.	2011～2013	Symbiotic and Supra-hegemonic International Order : Comprehensive Study of the English School of International Relations (Key Word : )
5.	2010～2012	The "China Threat" and the Birth of the "Taiwanese": A Reflection on Taiwan〓s Post-Cold War Security Policy (Key Word : )

■ Awards and honors

1.

2006

British International Studies Association Postgraduate Research Award

■ Educational ability

● Made textbook and teaching material
1.	2016～2016	"Theory" in Critical Imaginations in International Relations

■ Professional contribution to Society

1.

2024/12～2024/12

US-North Korea relations: could a Trump-Kim summit be on the cards again?

■ Committee and society

1.	2021/03～2024/03	International Studies Association Asia Pacific Regional Executive Committee Secretary-Treasurer
2.	2018/05～2021/03	International Studies Association Asia Pacific Regional Executive Committee Member-at-large

■ E-Mail address

■ Homepage

Researchmap

■ JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number

50569788

■ Researchmap researcher code

6000021594

■ External Researcher ID

orcID	0000-0003-1720-4723
Researcher ID	50569788