Title: Political Conflict in Taiwan, 2006: A Historical Perspective
Abstract:According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), there have been between thirty and forth political armed conflicts in progress in each year of 1980s and 1990s. The political...According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), there have been between thirty and forth political armed conflicts in progress in each year of 1980s and 1990s. The political conflict still threats the newly democratic development in Asia, Africa, and Latin American. In this paper, I intend to compare the theories of political conflict with the Taiwan conflict case which occurred in 2006. The research findings show that the intra-elite competition model fits better with the Taiwan political conflict case in 2006 and that democratic institution does matter. As democratization advances, the sanction apparatus declines significantly step by step. When democratization crosses a critical threshold, sanctions vanish, and insurgency disappears sequentially. But peaceful protest occurs more frequently as the levels of democratization increase. It seems that protest activities will replace insurgency and regime’s sanctions as democratization enters an advanced stage.Read More
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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