Author Description

The presented monograph, "The Taiwan Issues", is a valuable result of the project 'Taiwan Studies Center', inaugurated and conducted during the academic year 2011/2012 at the Institute of the Middle and Far East of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Contents: Introduction; 1. Courses of Democratization in East Asia: A Contribution to the Debate (by Adam W. Jelonek); 2. Taiwan's Democratization and the Rise of Civil Society: Its Development Experiences and Model (by Jenn-jaw Soong and Andrew Papadimos); 3. Taiwan's Democracy, Citizen Journalism, and the Right of Access to Media (by Hsiang-yi Yeh and Chin-fu Hung); 4. Taiwan's Democratization and the European Union's Relations with China and Taiwan: The Arms Embargo Debate Between 2003 and 2005 (by Anna Rudakowska); 5. Dialog Across the Taiwan Strait: What Does the Peaceful Reunification Mean? (by Lukasz Gacek); 6. Main Economic Patterns Across the Taiwan Strait (by Ewa Trojnar); List of figures and tables