Basic Reading:

1.          Bush, Richard C. (2005). Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press: pp. 266-339.

2.          Kastner, Scott L. and Chad Rector (2008). "National Unification and Mistrust: Bargaining Power and the Prospects for a PRC/Taiwan Agreement." Security Studies 17 (1): pp. 39 - 71.

3.          Lieberthal, Kenneth (2005). "Preventing a War over Taiwan." Foreign Affairs 84 (2): pp. 53-63.

4.          Fell, Dafydd (2010) “Taiwan's Democracy: Towards a liberal democracy or authoritarianism?'” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 39 (2). pp. 187-201.