Professor of Political Science
Year Joined RCNJ: 2012
Contact Information
- Phone: (201) 684-7755
- Email: dchen@ramapo.edu
- Office: B-203
- Office Hours: T 2:00-5:00 pm; Also By Appt
Education:
- B.A., San Francisco State University
- M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
- Ph.D.,聽University of California, Santa Barbara
Courses Offered:
- International Politics
- United Nations: World Politics
- China: History, Politics, and Culture
- Political Science Senior Seminar
- Studies in Arts & Humanities
- U.S. China Relations
- East Asia: History and Politics
- American Foreign Policy
- China’s Political Economy in the Digital Age
Teaching Interests:
- International Relations
- UN & International Institutions
- U.S. Foreign Policy
- Sino-American Relations & Diplomatic History
- Chinese Political Economy
- China & East Asian Politics
Research Interests:
- American Grand Strategies
- U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations
- Chinese Political Economy
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- International Security
- The State and Neoclassical Realism
Scholarly Activity:
Books (Peer-Reviewed)
- 2022. U.S.-China-Taiwan in the Age of Trump and Biden: Towards a Nationalist Strategy. London/New York: Routledge. .
- 2017. U.S.-China Rivalry and Taiwan鈥檚 Mainland Policy: Security, Nationalism, and the 1992 Consensus. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. .
- 2012. U.S. Taiwan Strait Policy: The Origins of Strategic Ambiguity. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. .
Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
- 2026. International Crises and China鈥檚 Technonationalist Strategies: Chiang Kai-Shek鈥檚 Prewar S&T Planning versus Xi Jinping鈥檚 Amid U.S.-PRC Rivalry. Asian Politics & Policy 18(2): e70083. .
- 2023. China鈥檚 Leninist State and Strategic Relations with the United States: Chiang鈥檚 KMT in Nanjing Decade and Implications for the Chinese Communist Party after 1949. Asian Politics & Policy 15 (4): 668-701. .
- 2022. Learning the Wrong Lessons from Ukraine? Sources of Beijing鈥檚 Misperceptions and Tensions across the Taiwan Strait. American Journal of Chinese Studies 29 (2): 171-180. . (coauthored with Yao-Yuan Yeh).
- 2020. The End of Liberal Engagement with China and the New U.S.-Taiwan Focus. Pacific Focus 35 (3), 397-435. .
- 2019. The Trump Administration鈥檚 One-China Policy: Tilting toward Taiwan in an Era of U.S.-PRC Rivalry? Asian Politics & Policy 11 (2): 250-278. .
- 2017. Liberal Internationalism, Jacksonian Nationalism, and the U.S. One China Policy. Asian Survey 57 (5): 885-909. .
- 2016. U.S.-China Rivalry and the Weakening of the KMT鈥檚 鈥1992 Consensus鈥 Policy: Second-Image Reversed, Revisited. Asian Survey 56 (4): 754-778. .
- 2015. Security, Domestic Divisions, and the KMT鈥檚 Post-2008 鈥淥ne China鈥 Policy: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 15 (2): 319-365. .
- 2015. America鈥檚 Liberal Culture, One China, and the Security of Taiwan. American Journal of Chinese Studies 22 (Special Issue): 209-233. .
- 2014. Constructing Peaceful Development: The Changing Interpretations of 鈥淥ne China鈥 and Beijing鈥檚 Taiwan Strait Policy. Asian Security 10 (1): 22-46. .
- 2013.The Strategic Implications of Ma Ying-jeou鈥檚 鈥淥ne ROC, Two Areas鈥 Policy on Cross Strait Relations. American Journal of Chinese Studies 20 (1): 23-41. .
Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
- 2025. On Route to Greater Strategic Clarity on Taiwan: Obama, Trump, and Biden. In Yao-Yuan Yeh and Charles K.S. Wu, eds., New Developments in the Trilateral Relationship between the United States, Taiwan, and China (pp. 97-123). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield. . (coauthored with Yao-Yuan Yeh).
- 2025. U.S. Industrial Policy for the 21st Century: The Washington-Taipei Techno-Democracy Partnership amidst Chip Rivalry with Beijing. In Peter C. Y. Chow (Ed.), Technology Rivalry between the USA and China (pp. 27-57). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. .
- 2023. Competitions and Coalitions: An Emerging U.S. Domestic Nationalist Consensus, Executive Branch Prerogatives, and the Taiwan Strait Tensions. In Wei-chin Lee (Ed.), Protests, Pandemic, and Security Predicaments: Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and the U.S. in the 2020s (pp. 347-396). Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan. .
- 2022. Fascism with Chinese Characteristics: Chiang Kai-Shek鈥檚 Nationalist Vision in the 1930s and Implications for U.S.-China Rivalry Today. In Shiping Hua (Ed.), The Chinese Ideology (pp. 111-131). London/New York: Routledge. .
- 2022. Trump, Biden, and China: From a Wilsonian World Order to Jacksonian Nationalism. In Shiping Hua (Ed.), The Political Logic of the U.S.-China Trade War (pp. 257-277). Lanham, MD: Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield. .
- 2020. In the Shadow of Great-Power Rivalry. In Kharis Templeman, Yun-han Chu, and Larry Diamond (Eds.), The Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Era. (pp. 361-384). Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. .
- 2018. Foreign Policies of East Asia. In Shiping Hua (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Politics in Asia (pp. 76-97). London/New York: Routledge. . (coauthored with Dennis Hickey).
- 2014. An Indispensable Pillar of Obama鈥檚 鈥淧ivot鈥 to Asia: Continuing Strategic Ambiguity across the Taiwan Strait. In Peter Chow (Ed.), The U.S. Strategic Pivot to Asia and Cross Strait Relations (pp. 31-54). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. .
- 2013. The Evolution of Taiwan鈥檚 Policies toward the Political Participation of Citizens Abroad in Homeland Governance. In Tan Chee-Beng (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora (pp. 42-58). London/New York: Routledge. . (coauthored with Pei-te Lien).
Policy Papers & Monographs
- 2024. The Role of the 1992 Consensus and Taiwan鈥檚 2024 Presidential Elections. . East-West Center Washington. (coauthored with Kiely Paris-Rodriguez).
- 2013. Sustaining the Triangular Balance: The Taiwan Strait Policy of Barack Obama, Xi Jinping, and Ma Ying-jeou. . Baltimore: MD: University of Maryland School of Law.
Book Reviews
- 2023. Review of Taiwan and the Changing Dynamics of Sino-U.S. Relations: A Relational Approach by Hung-Jen Wang Routledge 2022. International Journal of Asian Studies 20(2): 934-936. .
- 2017. Review of American Justice in Taiwan: The 1957 Riots and Cold War Foreign Policy by Stephen G. Craft University Press of Kentucky 2016. Pacific Historical Review 86 (4): 739-740. .
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