The State and Society in Taiwan’s Second-track Diphomacy: A Discursive Analysis
Author: Chih-Yu Shih, Ginger C. Hwang
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Second-track diplomacy is aimed at providing a non-state, and thus less competitive, environment for professionals, primarily academics, from countries in dispute to brainstorm one another for creative solutions to chronic conflict. The unstated assumption that participants have independent roles outside of state, which support them to be caring human beings, carries strong liberal legacy. This paper shows that when this assumption fails to hold, as in Taiwan and China, the meaning of the second track diplomacy to those involved would be dramatically different. The interactions facilitated along the second tracks would have little impacts on conflict resolution.
Keywords：Chinese political culture、Civil Society、second-track diplomacy、state and society