Scott L Kastner
Biographic Data
| ID | 2074567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott L Kastner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott L |
| FAMILY NAME | Kastner |
| SIGNATURE | KASTNER S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 281 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Is China-Taiwan Rapprochement Possible? Experimental Evidence From Taiwan
Any peaceful resolution to the Cross-Strait conflict between China and Taiwan is likely to be composed of give-and-take between the two sides, and any agreement will ultimately require the support of Taiwan’s citizens, by whom Taiwan’s leaders are held accountable. Yet little is known about the actual tradeoffs Taiwanese citizens are willing to make in pursuit of an agreement in a time of peace. In conjoint experiments fielded in Taiwan in April …
Do China’s Foreign Economic Ties Lead to Influence Abroad? New Evidence from Recent Events
Do China’s growing foreign economic ties translate into political influence abroad? We identify issues about which China cares deeply, and assess whether increased economic ties correlate with greater expressed support for Chinese activities on these issues. We collect new data to measure how countries have responded to China’s implementation of a National Security Law for Hong Kong, and recent policies in Xinjiang. We find that countries with cl…
War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait
Scott L. Kastner offers a comprehensive account of PRC-Taiwan relations that sheds new light on the prospects for military conflict. Drawing on both international relations theory and close empirical analysis of regional trends, this book provides vital perspective on how a war in the Taiwan Strait could occur—and how one could be avoided
War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait
Exploring the Parameters of China’s Economic Influence
China and Global Governance
US policy toward the People's Republic of China (PRC) has come under increasing attack in Washington, as a growing chorus of analysts paints the PRC has a revisionist power seeking to undercut existing multilateral institutions. We observe, however, that China's approach to multilateralism varies across different issue areas, and we argue and show that China's approach differs depending on the strategic landscape of any given context. We conclude…
Introduction to the Special Issue — US–China Competition and Its Implications for East Asia
China's Strategic Multilateralism
China sometimes plays a leadership role in addressing global challenges, but at other times it free rides or even spoils efforts at cooperation. When will rising powers like China help to build and maintain international regimes that sustain cooperation on important issues, and when will they play less constructive roles? This study argues that the strategic setting of a particular issue area has a strong influence on whether and how a rising pow…
China's Strategic Multilateralism
International Relations Theory and the Relationship across the Taiwan Strait
The purpose of this state-of-the-field article is to take stock of the use of international relations theory in the study of cross-Strait relations since 2000. To what degree have studies of cross-Strait relations made use of international relations theory since 2000, and to what degree has international relations theory provided useful insights for understanding Beijing–Taipei relations? I focus my attention on five topics in particular: the pro…
Is the Taiwan Strait Still a Flash Point? Rethinking the Prospects for Armed Conflict between China and Taiwan
After decades of tension, relations between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan have improved dramatically in recent years. How durable is this détente? To what degree is armed conflict in the Taiwan Strait a continued possibility? Answering these questions requires grappling with the impact of several different trends in cross–Taiwan Strait relations, including a rapidly shifting balance of military power, deepening China-Taiwan economic i…
Buying Influence? Assessing the Political Effects of China’s International Trade
It is widely believed that China’s growing links to the global economy are translating into increased Chinese political influence abroad. This article explores this possibility quantitatively by examining whether increased trade with China correlates with an increased willingness by countries to accommodate Chinese interests. I use newly collected data that capture cross-national variation in the willingness of individual countries to support Chi…
Invest, Hold Up, or Accept?China in Multilateral Governance
China has played an inconsistent role in multilateral governance, sometimes contributing to the creation and maintenance of international regimes, sometimes free riding or even threatening to undermine multilateral regimes to improve its position. We show that the strategic context of a particular issue of international concern affects China's approach to multilateralism and argue that our approach adds additional leverage to existing theories th…
Is China a Status Quo or Revisionist State? Leadership Travel as an Empirical Indicator of Foreign Policy Priorities1
China's rising power and increased global activism have attracted increasing attention, with particular focus on whether a stronger China is likely to be a revisionist or status quo state. Power transition theory highlights the potential for a dissatisfied rising power to challenge the existing international order, but it is difficult to evaluate whether a rising power is dissatisfied. Where Chinese leaders choose to travel can offer insights int…
Does Economic Integration Augur Peace in East Asia
At the end of the day, it is not clear that economic ties will act as a significant constraint on state behavior when high-stakes issues are on the table
Legislative Foundations of U.S.-Taiwan Relations
Journal Article Legislative Foundations of U.S.–Taiwan Relations: A New Look at the Congressional Taiwan Caucus Get access Scott L. Kastner, Scott L. Kastner University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Douglas B. Grob Douglas B. Grob University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 57–7…
Bridge over Troubled Water? Envisioning a China-Taiwan Peace Agreement
In Taiwan's 2008 presidential election, both candidates advocated signing a peace agreement with China, and Chinese leaders have also expressed interest in reaching such an agreement. Although substantial obstacles remain in the way of a cross-strait peace agreement, this increased interest on both sides of the Taiwan Strait suggests that a closer examination of an agreement's possible dimensions and consequences is warranted. This analysis consi…
The Global Implications of China’s Rise
The rise of China represents one of the most fundamental shifts in world politics over the past few decades and, as such, has attracted increasing interest from scholars of international politics. A growing literature examines the causes and likely consequences of China's ascent in an increasingly sophisticated way, and the four books reviewed here are no exception in this regard. Though the books consider very different dimensions of China's ris…
National Unification and Mistrust
Can states that mistrust each other as much as the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan reach unification agreements? Unification agreements are most feasible when one of two conditions holds: the unification bargain does not independently erode the bargaining power of the weaker state, or the more powerful state can commit credibly not to use its increased bargaining power to restructure the agreement ex post. Our argument accounts for tw…
When Do Conflicting Political Relations Affect International Trade
Limited commercial integration between India and Pakistan or within much of the Middle East suggests that conflicting political interests between countries can have a detrimental effect on their economic relations. But rapidly growing economic ties between Mainland China and Taiwan show that commerce can also flourish even in the presence of very hostile relations. I explore this variation and hypothesize that the effects of international politic…
Does Economic Integration Across the Taiwan Strait Make Military Conflict Less Likely
Deepening economic ties across the Taiwan Strait are widely believed by analysts and scholars to be a stabilizing force in cross-Strait political relations. Yet within the broader international relations literature, the relationship between economic interdependence and military conflict continues to be controversial. This article examines the impact of growing cross-Strait economic links on the likelihood of cross-Strait military conflict within …
The Economics of Cross-Strait Relations
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ambiguity, Economic Interdependence, and the US Strategic Dilemma in the Taiwan Strait
As tensions across the Taiwan Strait have risen in recent years, some have argued that the US policy of strategic ambiguity—under which Washington leaves unclear if and how it would intervene in a cross-Strait conflict—has outlived its usefulness because ambiguity may foster dangerous misperceptions about US intentions and hence contribute to future crises. In this essay I critically examine strategic ambiguity, and conclude that ambiguity remain…
Strategic Uses of Economic Interdependence
While the determinants and effectiveness of economic sanctions have been the subject of a substantial and growing literature in international relations, much less attention has been given to economic engagement strategies, where a country deliberately expands economic ties with an adversary to change the target's behavior. This article develops a theoretical framework that distinguishes between three types of engagement strategies: conditional po…
Partisanship and the Path to Financial Openness
The effect of traditional left-right economic preferences on countries’ international financial openness is more subtle than existing studies have recognized. The authors investigate the role that partisan politics played in the liberalization of international financial markets within 12 Western European democracies from 1960 to 1986. The authors find that right governments tended to be active liberalizers of the capital account. They were more l…
Is China a Status Quo or Revisionist State? Leadership Travel as an Empirical Indicator of Foreign Policy Priorities1
China's rising power and increased global activism have attracted increasing attention, with particular focus on whether a stronger China is likely to be a revisionist or status quo state. Power transition theory highlights the potential for a dissatisfied rising power to challenge the existing international order, but it is difficult to evaluate whether a rising power is dissatisfied. Where Chinese leaders choose to travel can offer insights int…
Buying Influence? Assessing the Political Effects of China’s International Trade
It is widely believed that China’s growing links to the global economy are translating into increased Chinese political influence abroad. This article explores this possibility quantitatively by examining whether increased trade with China correlates with an increased willingness by countries to accommodate Chinese interests. I use newly collected data that capture cross-national variation in the willingness of individual countries to support Chi…
When Do Conflicting Political Relations Affect International Trade
Limited commercial integration between India and Pakistan or within much of the Middle East suggests that conflicting political interests between countries can have a detrimental effect on their economic relations. But rapidly growing economic ties between Mainland China and Taiwan show that commerce can also flourish even in the presence of very hostile relations. I explore this variation and hypothesize that the effects of international politic…
International Regimes, Domestic Veto-Players, and Capital Controls Policy Stability
States' decisions about regulating international capital movements are shaped in part by institutions and partisanship at the domestic level, but the effects of domestic-level variables are themselves contingent on the constraints imposed by the international system. We amend the veto-players hypothesis to account for the effects of international regimes on the political influence of domestic players in state decision-making. The history of chang…
Sleeping with the (potential) enemy
(1999). Sleeping with the (potential) enemy: Assessing the U.S. policy of engagement with China. Security Studies: Vol. 9, Power and the Purse: Economic Statecraft, Interdependence, and National Security, pp. 157-187
Is the Taiwan Strait Still a Flash Point? Rethinking the Prospects for Armed Conflict between China and Taiwan
After decades of tension, relations between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan have improved dramatically in recent years. How durable is this détente? To what degree is armed conflict in the Taiwan Strait a continued possibility? Answering these questions requires grappling with the impact of several different trends in cross–Taiwan Strait relations, including a rapidly shifting balance of military power, deepening China-Taiwan economic i…
Partisanship and the Path to Financial Openness
The effect of traditional left-right economic preferences on countries’ international financial openness is more subtle than existing studies have recognized. The authors investigate the role that partisan politics played in the liberalization of international financial markets within 12 Western European democracies from 1960 to 1986. The authors find that right governments tended to be active liberalizers of the capital account. They were more l…
Exploring the Parameters of China’s Economic Influence
Strategic Uses of Economic Interdependence
While the determinants and effectiveness of economic sanctions have been the subject of a substantial and growing literature in international relations, much less attention has been given to economic engagement strategies, where a country deliberately expands economic ties with an adversary to change the target's behavior. This article develops a theoretical framework that distinguishes between three types of engagement strategies: conditional po…
National Unification and Mistrust
Can states that mistrust each other as much as the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan reach unification agreements? Unification agreements are most feasible when one of two conditions holds: the unification bargain does not independently erode the bargaining power of the weaker state, or the more powerful state can commit credibly not to use its increased bargaining power to restructure the agreement ex post. Our argument accounts for tw…
International Relations Theory and the Relationship across the Taiwan Strait
The purpose of this state-of-the-field article is to take stock of the use of international relations theory in the study of cross-Strait relations since 2000. To what degree have studies of cross-Strait relations made use of international relations theory since 2000, and to what degree has international relations theory provided useful insights for understanding Beijing–Taipei relations? I focus my attention on five topics in particular: the pro…
Ambiguity, Economic Interdependence, and the US Strategic Dilemma in the Taiwan Strait
As tensions across the Taiwan Strait have risen in recent years, some have argued that the US policy of strategic ambiguity—under which Washington leaves unclear if and how it would intervene in a cross-Strait conflict—has outlived its usefulness because ambiguity may foster dangerous misperceptions about US intentions and hence contribute to future crises. In this essay I critically examine strategic ambiguity, and conclude that ambiguity remain…
Do China’s Foreign Economic Ties Lead to Influence Abroad? New Evidence from Recent Events
Do China’s growing foreign economic ties translate into political influence abroad? We identify issues about which China cares deeply, and assess whether increased economic ties correlate with greater expressed support for Chinese activities on these issues. We collect new data to measure how countries have responded to China’s implementation of a National Security Law for Hong Kong, and recent policies in Xinjiang. We find that countries with cl…
Bridge over Troubled Water? Envisioning a China-Taiwan Peace Agreement
In Taiwan's 2008 presidential election, both candidates advocated signing a peace agreement with China, and Chinese leaders have also expressed interest in reaching such an agreement. Although substantial obstacles remain in the way of a cross-strait peace agreement, this increased interest on both sides of the Taiwan Strait suggests that a closer examination of an agreement's possible dimensions and consequences is warranted. This analysis consi…
Does Economic Integration Across the Taiwan Strait Make Military Conflict Less Likely
Deepening economic ties across the Taiwan Strait are widely believed by analysts and scholars to be a stabilizing force in cross-Strait political relations. Yet within the broader international relations literature, the relationship between economic interdependence and military conflict continues to be controversial. This article examines the impact of growing cross-Strait economic links on the likelihood of cross-Strait military conflict within …
Invest, Hold Up, or Accept?China in Multilateral Governance
China has played an inconsistent role in multilateral governance, sometimes contributing to the creation and maintenance of international regimes, sometimes free riding or even threatening to undermine multilateral regimes to improve its position. We show that the strategic context of a particular issue of international concern affects China's approach to multilateralism and argue that our approach adds additional leverage to existing theories th…
Is China-Taiwan Rapprochement Possible? Experimental Evidence From Taiwan
Any peaceful resolution to the Cross-Strait conflict between China and Taiwan is likely to be composed of give-and-take between the two sides, and any agreement will ultimately require the support of Taiwan’s citizens, by whom Taiwan’s leaders are held accountable. Yet little is known about the actual tradeoffs Taiwanese citizens are willing to make in pursuit of an agreement in a time of peace. In conjoint experiments fielded in Taiwan in April …
Legislative Foundations of U.S.-Taiwan Relations
Journal Article Legislative Foundations of U.S.–Taiwan Relations: A New Look at the Congressional Taiwan Caucus Get access Scott L. Kastner, Scott L. Kastner University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Douglas B. Grob Douglas B. Grob University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 57–7…
The Global Implications of China’s Rise
The rise of China represents one of the most fundamental shifts in world politics over the past few decades and, as such, has attracted increasing interest from scholars of international politics. A growing literature examines the causes and likely consequences of China's ascent in an increasingly sophisticated way, and the four books reviewed here are no exception in this regard. Though the books consider very different dimensions of China's ris…
Sleeping with the (potential) enemy
(1999). Sleeping with the (potential) enemy: Assessing the U.S. policy of engagement with China. Security Studies: Vol. 9, Power and the Purse: Economic Statecraft, Interdependence, and National Security, pp. 157-187
International Regimes, Domestic Veto-Players, and Capital Controls Policy Stability
States' decisions about regulating international capital movements are shaped in part by institutions and partisanship at the domestic level, but the effects of domestic-level variables are themselves contingent on the constraints imposed by the international system. We amend the veto-players hypothesis to account for the effects of international regimes on the political influence of domestic players in state decision-making. The history of chang…
Partisanship and the Path to Financial Openness
The effect of traditional left-right economic preferences on countries’ international financial openness is more subtle than existing studies have recognized. The authors investigate the role that partisan politics played in the liberalization of international financial markets within 12 Western European democracies from 1960 to 1986. The authors find that right governments tended to be active liberalizers of the capital account. They were more l…
Does Economic Integration Across the Taiwan Strait Make Military Conflict Less Likely
Deepening economic ties across the Taiwan Strait are widely believed by analysts and scholars to be a stabilizing force in cross-Strait political relations. Yet within the broader international relations literature, the relationship between economic interdependence and military conflict continues to be controversial. This article examines the impact of growing cross-Strait economic links on the likelihood of cross-Strait military conflict within …
The Economics of Cross-Strait Relations
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ambiguity, Economic Interdependence, and the US Strategic Dilemma in the Taiwan Strait
As tensions across the Taiwan Strait have risen in recent years, some have argued that the US policy of strategic ambiguity—under which Washington leaves unclear if and how it would intervene in a cross-Strait conflict—has outlived its usefulness because ambiguity may foster dangerous misperceptions about US intentions and hence contribute to future crises. In this essay I critically examine strategic ambiguity, and conclude that ambiguity remain…
Strategic Uses of Economic Interdependence
While the determinants and effectiveness of economic sanctions have been the subject of a substantial and growing literature in international relations, much less attention has been given to economic engagement strategies, where a country deliberately expands economic ties with an adversary to change the target's behavior. This article develops a theoretical framework that distinguishes between three types of engagement strategies: conditional po…
When Do Conflicting Political Relations Affect International Trade
Limited commercial integration between India and Pakistan or within much of the Middle East suggests that conflicting political interests between countries can have a detrimental effect on their economic relations. But rapidly growing economic ties between Mainland China and Taiwan show that commerce can also flourish even in the presence of very hostile relations. I explore this variation and hypothesize that the effects of international politic…
The Global Implications of China’s Rise
The rise of China represents one of the most fundamental shifts in world politics over the past few decades and, as such, has attracted increasing interest from scholars of international politics. A growing literature examines the causes and likely consequences of China's ascent in an increasingly sophisticated way, and the four books reviewed here are no exception in this regard. Though the books consider very different dimensions of China's ris…
National Unification and Mistrust
Can states that mistrust each other as much as the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan reach unification agreements? Unification agreements are most feasible when one of two conditions holds: the unification bargain does not independently erode the bargaining power of the weaker state, or the more powerful state can commit credibly not to use its increased bargaining power to restructure the agreement ex post. Our argument accounts for tw…
Legislative Foundations of U.S.-Taiwan Relations
Journal Article Legislative Foundations of U.S.–Taiwan Relations: A New Look at the Congressional Taiwan Caucus Get access Scott L. Kastner, Scott L. Kastner University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Douglas B. Grob Douglas B. Grob University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 57–7…
Bridge over Troubled Water? Envisioning a China-Taiwan Peace Agreement
In Taiwan's 2008 presidential election, both candidates advocated signing a peace agreement with China, and Chinese leaders have also expressed interest in reaching such an agreement. Although substantial obstacles remain in the way of a cross-strait peace agreement, this increased interest on both sides of the Taiwan Strait suggests that a closer examination of an agreement's possible dimensions and consequences is warranted. This analysis consi…
Does Economic Integration Augur Peace in East Asia
At the end of the day, it is not clear that economic ties will act as a significant constraint on state behavior when high-stakes issues are on the table
Is China a Status Quo or Revisionist State? Leadership Travel as an Empirical Indicator of Foreign Policy Priorities1
China's rising power and increased global activism have attracted increasing attention, with particular focus on whether a stronger China is likely to be a revisionist or status quo state. Power transition theory highlights the potential for a dissatisfied rising power to challenge the existing international order, but it is difficult to evaluate whether a rising power is dissatisfied. Where Chinese leaders choose to travel can offer insights int…
Is the Taiwan Strait Still a Flash Point? Rethinking the Prospects for Armed Conflict between China and Taiwan
After decades of tension, relations between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan have improved dramatically in recent years. How durable is this détente? To what degree is armed conflict in the Taiwan Strait a continued possibility? Answering these questions requires grappling with the impact of several different trends in cross–Taiwan Strait relations, including a rapidly shifting balance of military power, deepening China-Taiwan economic i…
Buying Influence? Assessing the Political Effects of China’s International Trade
It is widely believed that China’s growing links to the global economy are translating into increased Chinese political influence abroad. This article explores this possibility quantitatively by examining whether increased trade with China correlates with an increased willingness by countries to accommodate Chinese interests. I use newly collected data that capture cross-national variation in the willingness of individual countries to support Chi…
Invest, Hold Up, or Accept?China in Multilateral Governance
China has played an inconsistent role in multilateral governance, sometimes contributing to the creation and maintenance of international regimes, sometimes free riding or even threatening to undermine multilateral regimes to improve its position. We show that the strategic context of a particular issue of international concern affects China's approach to multilateralism and argue that our approach adds additional leverage to existing theories th…
China's Strategic Multilateralism
China sometimes plays a leadership role in addressing global challenges, but at other times it free rides or even spoils efforts at cooperation. When will rising powers like China help to build and maintain international regimes that sustain cooperation on important issues, and when will they play less constructive roles? This study argues that the strategic setting of a particular issue area has a strong influence on whether and how a rising pow…
China's Strategic Multilateralism
International Relations Theory and the Relationship across the Taiwan Strait
The purpose of this state-of-the-field article is to take stock of the use of international relations theory in the study of cross-Strait relations since 2000. To what degree have studies of cross-Strait relations made use of international relations theory since 2000, and to what degree has international relations theory provided useful insights for understanding Beijing–Taipei relations? I focus my attention on five topics in particular: the pro…
Introduction to the Special Issue — US–China Competition and Its Implications for East Asia
China and Global Governance
US policy toward the People's Republic of China (PRC) has come under increasing attack in Washington, as a growing chorus of analysts paints the PRC has a revisionist power seeking to undercut existing multilateral institutions. We observe, however, that China's approach to multilateralism varies across different issue areas, and we argue and show that China's approach differs depending on the strategic landscape of any given context. We conclude…
Exploring the Parameters of China’s Economic Influence
War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait
Scott L. Kastner offers a comprehensive account of PRC-Taiwan relations that sheds new light on the prospects for military conflict. Drawing on both international relations theory and close empirical analysis of regional trends, this book provides vital perspective on how a war in the Taiwan Strait could occur—and how one could be avoided
War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait
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