Books:
1. US-China Rivalry and Taiwan’s Mainland Policy: Security, Nationalism, and Taiwan’s 1992 Consensus (Under contract with Palgrave Macmillan, expected publication 2017).
2. Sustaining the Triangular Balance: The Taiwan Strait Policy of Barack Obama, Xi Jinping, and Ma Ying-jeou (Baltimore, MD: University of Maryland School of Law, 2013).
3. US Taiwan Strait Policy: The Origins of Strategic Ambiguity (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
1. “Second Image-Reversed Revisited: US-China Rivalry and the Weakening of KMT’s 1992 Consensus Policy, ” Asian Survey (accepted for publication, forthcoming, 2016).
2. “Security, Domestic Divisions, and the KMT’s Post-2008 ‘One China’ Policy: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 15, no. 2 (2015): pp. 319-365.
3. “America’s Liberal Culture, One China, and the Security of Taiwan,” American Journal of Chinese Studies 22 (Special Issue 2015): pp. 209-233.
4. “An Indispensable Pillar of Obama’s ‘Pivot’ to Asia: Continuing Strategic Ambiguity across the Taiwan Strait,” in Peter Chow ed., The U.S. Strategic Pivot to Asia and Cross-Strait Relations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014): pp. 31-54.
5. “Constructing Peaceful Development: The Changing Interpretations of ‘One China’ and Beijing’s Taiwan Strait Policy,” Asian Security 10, no. 1 (2014): pp. 22-46.
6. “The Strategic Implications of Ma Ying-jeou’s ‘One ROC, Two Areas’ Policy on Cross-Strait Relations,” American Journal of Chinese Studies 20, no. 1 (April 2013): pp. 23-41.
7. “The Evolution of Taiwan’s Policies toward the Political Participation of Citizens Abroad in Homeland Governance,” (Co-authoring with Pei-te Lien) in Tan Chee-Beng, ed., Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora (New York: Routledge, 2013) pp. 42-58.

Taiwan Fellowship (2014), awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Republic of China (Taiwan).

Faculty Award, from the Office of the Specialized Services (OSS), Ramapo College of New Jersey, 2014.

“The Origins and Development of Taiwan’s Policies toward Its Overseas Citizens’ Participation in Homeland Governance and Decision-Making.” Invited Speech at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, February 28, 2014.

B.A., San Francisco State University
M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

International Politics
United Nations: World Politics
US-China Relations
China: History, Politics, and Culture