This critique assesses Prof. Chang Ya-chung’s draft basic agreement for cross-Strait relations by arguing that it overstates changes in Beijing’s Taiwan policy, which is based on a strategy that has not seen substantial change since it was devised in the early 1990s to prevent the island’s...

The main question that Chang Ya-chung’s Modest Proposal triggers is whether a political and security agreement can realistically be reached today. The twelve agreements signed by Beijing and Taibei since 2008 should be saluted as conducive to constructing détente, nonmilitary...

Coordination between different United Nations (UN) departments, funds, agencies, and programmes has become an issue of increasing concern for scholars and practitioners alike. With the United Nations taking on ever more ambitious roles in countries emerging from conflict ; no single unit or...

Zum Jubeln war in Oslo niemandem zumute, als dort im September an den fünften Jahrestag des Friedensabkommens zwischen Israel und den Palästinensern erinnert wurde. Es sind nicht nur die Hypotheken der Vergangenheit, die geblieben sind. Die nationale Zersplitterung des arabischen Raums, Israel...