CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Johnson, Jack |
|---|---|
| Title | Some Prudent Advice for Taiwan: The Role of Historical Analogies in Understanding the Taiwan Question |
| Summary | This thesis aims to deconstruct analogical reasoning by analyzing various historical analogies used to comprehend different events, with a focus on Taiwan’s current predicament with its security threat, the People’s Republic China. Historical analogies are frequently used tools to conceptualize current events by linking them with previous situations that they share a resemblance with. Although this method can suggest prudent advice on foreign policy decision-making, the outcome of utilizing analogies have experienced varying degrees of success and at times even resulted in disastrous political ramifications. A critical analysis of the analogies used to describe Taiwan’s current situation will help highlight the errors of the more western-centric analogies that don’t necessarily provide Taiwan with the necessary lessons to aid it in handling its predicament due to the cultural and political differences. In addition to presenting the often overlooked Taiwanese discourse on Crimea and the Russo-Ukrainian War, which has involved different aforementioned historical analogies, I will also finally offer an alternative analogy, the North-South Korea divide, to the Taiwan crisis that could provide a different perspective. |
| Supervisor | Christopher LaRoche |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/johnson_jack.pdf |
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