Speaker:

Steve Chan, Professor of Political Science at University of Coloardo at Boulder and Director of teh Farrand Residence Academic Program

Why would ostensible adversaries want to get themselves into deep and even asymmetric economic relations?  Rationalist explanations point to the temptation of misrepresentation and the difficulty of making credible commitment as perennial problems in international relations.  How can officials tell when their counterparts are sincere or insincere?  When words are just "empty talk" and when are actions to be taken as serious reassurance?  The talk will discuss relations across the Taiwan Strait in this theoretical context.

To see the event flier and for more information, please visit the Center for Taiwan Studies website.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Taiwan Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, and the Department of Political Science.

PS 595 Credit