2009 Taiwan Conference
Thirty Years After the Taiwan Relations Act
Dates: September 25-27, 2009
Place: The Inn at USC, Columbia, South Carolina
For more information, please contact W. Dean Kinzley (kinzley@mailbox.sc.edu)
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FRIDAY, September 25, 2009
Welcome Dinner
6:30pm, The Inn at USC, Palmetto Room
Welcoming Dinner for Participants

SATURDAY, September 26, 2009
9:00-9:30am, Introduction
Inn at USC, Carolina Room
Introductory Remarks
Marc L. Moskowitz, University of South Carolina, Conference Director
Larry Tseng, Director General, TECO Atlanta
Gordon  B. Smith,  Director, Walker Institute of International & Area Studies
W. Dean Kinzley, Director, Center for Asian Studies
Keynote Speech
Kuo-Yu Tung, Deputy Representative, TECRO, Washington, D.C.

9:30-9:45am - Break

9:45-11:45am
Panel #1 - Round Table: The TRA, A Historical Perspective
Moderator: Tom Gold, University of California, Berkeley
James C. Hsiung, New York University
James Klein, Savannah Technical College
Dennis Hickey , Missouri State University

12:00-1:15pm - Lunch, Inn at USC, Palmetto Room

1:30-3:00am
Panel #2 - The TRA and Regional Stability/Conflict
Chair: W. Dean Kinzley, University of South Carolina
Discussants: John Hsieh, University of South Carolina
Cal Clark, Auburn University, "The Taiwan Relations Act and the U.S. Balancing Role in Cross-Strait Relations"
Guoli Liu, College of Charleston, "Promoting Peace and Development Across the Taiwan Strait"
Wei-chin Lee, Wake Forest University, "Arms Twisting: US-Taiwan Arms Transfer in the 2000s"

3:00-3:15pm - Break

3:15-4:45pm
Panel #3 - The TRA and Cultural Relations between Taiwan and the US
Chair: Ran Wei, University of South Carolina
Discussant: Marc L. Moskowitz, University of South Carolina
Myron Cohen, Columbia University, "Global Taiwan, Chinese Taiwan, Taiwanese Taiwan and Local Taiwan"
Shelly Rigger, Davidson College, “US-Taiwan Political Interactions under the TRA”
Murray Rubinstein, Baruch College, CUNY, "Surviving De-recognition: The American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei and the Reconstruction of the American/Taiwanese Real-World Politico-economic Relationship"
T.Y. Wang, Illinois State University, "Cross-strait Rapprochement, Domestic Politics, and the Future of TRA"

6:30-9:00pm - Dinner

SUNDAY, September 27, 2009
8:30-10:00am
Panel #4 - The TRA and Commercial/Economic Relations between Taiwan/US
Chair: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, University of South Carolina             
Discussant: Jonathan Brookfield , Tufts University
Eric Chou, University of South Carolina, "Does the Dynamics of the US-Taiwan Economic Interactions affect the US-Taiwan Security Relations? A Review of The Taiwan Relations Act from a Political-economic Perspective"
Steven Chan, University of Colorado, "Trading Security: The Puzzle of Burgeoning Cross-Strait Commerce"
Chien-pin Li, Kennesaw State University, “The Political Economy of U.S.-Taiwan Trade Negotiations”

10:15-11:45am
Panel #5 - The Future of the TRA
Chair: Guo Jie, University of South Carolina
Discussant:  Xiaobo Hu, Clemson University
Sam Suisheng Zhao, University of Denver, “The Improvement of Cross-Strait Relations under the Ma administration and the Future of TRA”
Vincent Wang, University of Richmond, “Enduring Framework or Accidental Success?  The Future of the TRA and Its Implications for Taiwan and China”
S. Philip Hsu, National Taiwan University, “U.S. Strategic Ambiguity under TRA in Cross-Strait Economic Conflict in the Long Run”

12:00-1:30pm - Lunch, Inn at USC, Palmetto Room

Conference Participants
Brookfield, John. Tufts University
Chan, Steve. University of Colorado
Chiou, Eric Yi-hung. University of South Carolina
Clark, Cal. Auburn University
Cohen, Myron. Columbia University
Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro. University of South Carolina
Gold, Thomas. University of California, Berkeley
Hickey, Dennis. Missouri State University
Hill, Michael. University of South Carolina
Hsieh, John. University of South Carolina
Hsiung, James C. New York University
Hsu, S. Philip. National Taiwan University
Hu, Xiaobo. Clemson University
Huang, Chin-Tser. University of South Carolina
Jie, Guo. University of South Carolina
Kinzley, W. Dean. University of South Carolina
Klein, James. Savannah Technical College
Ko, Lin. Richland County Public Library, SC
Lee, Wei-Chin. Wake Forest University
Lee, Erica. TECO. Atlanta        
Lin, Chien-Pin. Kennesaw State University
Liu, Guoli. College of Charleston
Niou, Emerson. Duke University
Rigger, Shelly. Davidson College
Rubinstein, Murray. Baruch College, CUNY
Smith, Gordon. University of South Carolina
Tseng, Larry. TECO. Atlanta
Tung, Kuo-Yu. Deputy Representative, TECRO. Washington D.C.
Wang, Vincent. University of Richmond
Wang, T.Y. Illinois State University
Wei, Ran. University of South Carolina
Zhao, Sam Suisheng. University of Denver

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