Copyright (c) 2010 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/sumei_ooi Recent documents in Su-Mei Ooi en-us Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:49:06 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/sumei_ooi/5 http://works.bepress.com/sumei_ooi/5 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:17:40 PDT Reviews the book "Consolidating Taiwan's Democracy," by John F. Copper. Note: Link is to the article in a subscription database available to users affiliated with Butler University. Appropriate login information will be required for access. Users not affiliated with Butler University should contact their local librarian for assistance in locating a copy of this article. Su-Mei Ooi Book Review http://works.bepress.com/sumei_ooi/4 http://works.bepress.com/sumei_ooi/4 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:13:02 PDT This review is forthcoming Note: Link is to the article in a subscription database available to users affiliated with Butler University. Appropriate login information will be required for access. Users not affiliated with Butler University should contact their local librarian for assistance in locating a copy of this article. Su-Mei Ooi Book Review http://works.bepress.com/sumei_ooi/3 http://works.bepress.com/sumei_ooi/3 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:09:45 PDT The article reviews the book "Rethinking Asia's Economic Miracle: The Political Economy of War, Prosperity and Crisis: Rethinking World Politics Series," by R. Stubbs. Note: Link is to the article in a subscription database available to users affiliated with Butler University. Appropriate login information will be required for access. Users not affiliated with Butler University should contact their local librarian for assistance in locating a copy of this article. Su-Mei Ooi Book Review http://works.bepress.com/sumei_ooi/2 http://works.bepress.com/sumei_ooi/2 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:03:51 PDT The article reviews the book "Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power and Migration on Changing Identities," by Melissa J. Brown. Note: Link is to the article in a subscription database available to users affiliated with Butler University. Appropriate login information will be required for access. Users not affiliated with Butler University should contact their local librarian for assistance in locating a copy of this article. Su-Mei Ooi Book Review http://works.bepress.com/sumei_ooi/1 http://works.bepress.com/sumei_ooi/1 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:00:10 PDT On September 28, 1986, the Democratic Progressive Party was formed in defiance of restrictions set by a decades-old authoritarian regime, heralding the emergence of a fully competitive multiparty electoral system in Taiwan. Existing literature on Taiwan's democratic breakthrough suggests that international factors have played a significant role in bringing about democracy on the island. But what exactly were these external factors and how have they effected political change in Taiwan? A reexamination of the changing geopolitical and normative environments surrounding Taiwan suggests that they were crucial in shaping political development on the island in ways that have not been described in the literature. This article examines how the geopolitical and international normative environment enabled myriad external substate and nonstate actors to form a transnational "protection regime" around the political opposition, preserving the democratic movement and allowing it to reach its full mobilizational potential in time. Note: Link is to the article in a subscription database available to users affiliated with Butler University. Appropriate login information will be required for access. Users not affiliated with Butler University should contact their local librarian for assistance in locating a copy of this article. Su-Mei Ooi Articles