National identity and economic interest: Taiwan's competing options and their implications for regional stability

Part I Economic Integration with a Political Rival Regime * Chapter 1 Introduction * Chapter 2 From Economic Interactions to Economic Integration * Chapter 3 Legal Issues Concerning the Signing of ECFA: Implications on Taiwan's Legal Status" * Chapter 4 IS ECFA: A Mixture of the WTO Principles with "Cross-Strait Characteristics * Chapter 5 Political Economy of Integration between Two Rival Regimes: ECFA, Its Impacts on Cross Strait Relations and Implications for the U.S. * Part II Apprehension of Rapprochement: An Increasing Dividedness in Taiwan after Reducing the Tensions across The Taiwan Strait * Chapter 6 Taiwan, District of China * Chapter 7 on the Road to a Common Taiwan Identity * Chapter 8 Understanding Taiwanese Nationalism * Part III International Dimensions of the ECFA: Geo-politics of economic integration across the Taiwan Strait * Chapter 9 ECFA and Beyond: The Paradigm Shift of Taiwan's Security Policy toward China * Chapter 10 The Shifting Paradigm of the Triangular Relations in the aftermath of the ECFA * Chapter 11 Removing Taiwan's Pieces: Asia's 'Great Game' without a "Republic of China" * Chapter 12 Japan's view on Cross Strait Developments* Chapter 13 Concluding Chapter

The book covers the legal, economic, socio-political and international aspects of economic integration and the contending forces of national identity and economic interests after the economies between Taiwan and China are integrated and the trading bloc is emerging across the Taiwan Strait