Frédéric Krumbein
Biographic Data
| ID | 4156782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frédéric Krumbein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frédéric |
| FAMILY NAME | Krumbein |
| SIGNATURE | KRUMBEIN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0647-6267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Less panda, more dragon – Moving towards realism in EU–China relations
The European Union and China have a relationship that is characterized by strong economic interdependence. But since Xi Jinping’s ascent to power, the gap in power and interests between the EU and China has widened, and cooperation has become more difficult. As a result, the EU’s China policy has shifted towards a more structural realist perspective, strategy, and policy. The EU’s realist turn will be analysed in two major areas of the EU–China r…
The Incurious Approach to East Asian Populism
The East Asian democracies (EAD) of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have received little attention from the international political science community working on populism. By analyzing the last two to three decades of research on EAD we look for clues to help us explain why there is so little interest. In our review we encounter cases of eclectic conceptualization, suboptimal data, innovative categorization, binary analytics, and even political bias…
Han Fei and conceptions of universal and Chinese human rights
Han Fei (around 280 to 233 B.C.) advocates a strong and orderly state based on the absolute authority of the state and the law. Han Fei is usually not associated with human rights. His philosophy is difficult to reconcile with civil and political human rights, even if some of his political concepts support the realization of certain human rights. However, Han Fei’s ideas help us to gain a better understanding of the People’s Republic of China’s o…
Explaining Cross-Strait Relations with Regional Integration Theory
Regional integration theory can explain past and present processes of cross-strait integration and disintegration. Historical institutionalism can analyse how the path dependence of the ‘One China policy’ shapes cross-strait relations until today and how fundamental changes can occur through critical junctures. Neofunctionalism can well explain the dynamics of economic integration through spillovers and spillbacks driven by transnational actors s…
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU
For a long time, Taiwan was confined to being an object of the EU's China policy, but the EU increasingly treats Taiwan as a partner in its own right. EU-Taiwan relations are in their most dynamic stage since the EU opened its representative office in Taipei in 2003. But the 'One China policy' still constrains EU-Taiwan relations, as the EU only recognizes the People's Republic of China as a sovereign state and not Taiwan. The article analyzes EU…
Populist Discourses in Taiwan and the Case of Han Kuo-yu
The article analyses the rise and fall of the Kuomintang candidate in the 2020 Taiwanese presidential election, Han Kuo-yu. It examines how three leading Taiwanese newspapers, the China Times , the Liberty Times , and the United Daily News , have reported about him and his populist strategy and style. Han Kuo-yu is almost uniformly viewed as a populist due to his anti-elite discourse, self-styling as a common man, and use of simple and direct lan…
Populism in East Asian Democracies
Diagnosing a gap in our knowledge on populist phenomena in East Asian democracies, especially the lack of attention paid to the region by comparative studies, the organisers of the online lecture series ‘Populism in East Asian Democracies’ (PinEAD) brought together small but substantial research on East Asia by inviting presentations by nine experts, three each on Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Their findings showed how different phenomena and a…
Two Chinese tales of human rights– Mainland China’s and Taiwan’s external human rights strategies
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) (Taiwan) have taken divergent paths in the area of human rights. Since the two leaders Xi Jinping and Tsai Ing-wen came to power, the differences in the area of human rights have further increased. The paper analyses and compares their external human rights strategies based on realist assumptions and the soft and hard power resources of the PRC and the ROC. The PRC’s objectives …
Who will be Asia’s Next Unicorn? Comparing Marriage Equality in Taiwan with Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea
In May 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to introduce same-sex marriage. This article compares the path to same-sex marriage in Taiwan with the situation in three of its neighbours – Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea – where similar debates have proceeded without yet achieving marriage equality. Advocates for marriage equality in Taiwan’s neighbours can learn some lessons from the experience of the island democracy. First, the struggle…
Rainbow Island
In May 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to introduce same-sex marriage. After much debate and controversy in Taiwanese society and politics, Taiwan’s parliament passed a same-sex marriage law. The law implemented a ruling of Taiwan’s Constitutional Court that decided in May 2017 that Taiwan’s legislature must change the civil law to allow same-sex couples to marry in two years’ time. What are the reasons behind Taiwan’s comparatively…
The human rights gap in the Taiwan Strait
The paper describes the growing human rights gap between China on one side and the US and Taiwan on the other side and analyses its impact on cross-strait relations. Since Xi Jinping’s ascent to power in the People’s Republic of China in 2012/2013 and the elections of Donald Trump in the US and Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan in 2016, the relationship between China and the other two countries has worsened. The US and Taiwan have a similar view on human ri…
Human Rights and Democracy in Taiwan’s Foreign Policy and Cross-Strait Relations
Since the 1990s, Taiwan has achieved an impressive democratisation that has made it one of the most vibrant democratic societies in Asia. Most of the existing research about Taiwan’s foreign policy and cross-strait relations neglects how Taiwan’s identity and role as a democratic and pluralistic state influences the island’s external relations. This article analyses how Taiwan’s achievements in the field of democracy and human rights affect Taiwa…
Human Rights in the EU and the US
The EU and the United States are the most important state promoters of human rights and share a common human rights legacy. However, the human rights approaches of the EU and the US display crucial differences in comparison to each other: first, the acceptance of social and economic rights in Europe v. a focus on individual freedom in the US; second, a stricter and harsher law enforcement in the US; and third, the possibility for EU citizens to a…
Menschenrechtsdiskurse in China und Den USA
Media coverage of human rights in China
Existing analyses of human rights coverage by the media rarely explain why some human rights violations make headlines while others do not. The objective of this study is to examine how human rights in China are covered in three Chinese and US newspapers, and which factors influence the coverage. The Sino-American relationship and human rights discourses in the countries of origin of the newspapers are important factors explaining the selective n…
The EU’s Foreign and Security Policy in a Globalized World
Menschenrechtsdiskurse in China und Den USA
Rainbow Island
In May 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to introduce same-sex marriage. After much debate and controversy in Taiwanese society and politics, Taiwan’s parliament passed a same-sex marriage law. The law implemented a ruling of Taiwan’s Constitutional Court that decided in May 2017 that Taiwan’s legislature must change the civil law to allow same-sex couples to marry in two years’ time. What are the reasons behind Taiwan’s comparatively…
Who will be Asia’s Next Unicorn? Comparing Marriage Equality in Taiwan with Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea
In May 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to introduce same-sex marriage. This article compares the path to same-sex marriage in Taiwan with the situation in three of its neighbours – Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea – where similar debates have proceeded without yet achieving marriage equality. Advocates for marriage equality in Taiwan’s neighbours can learn some lessons from the experience of the island democracy. First, the struggle…
Media coverage of human rights in China
Existing analyses of human rights coverage by the media rarely explain why some human rights violations make headlines while others do not. The objective of this study is to examine how human rights in China are covered in three Chinese and US newspapers, and which factors influence the coverage. The Sino-American relationship and human rights discourses in the countries of origin of the newspapers are important factors explaining the selective n…
The human rights gap in the Taiwan Strait
The paper describes the growing human rights gap between China on one side and the US and Taiwan on the other side and analyses its impact on cross-strait relations. Since Xi Jinping’s ascent to power in the People’s Republic of China in 2012/2013 and the elections of Donald Trump in the US and Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan in 2016, the relationship between China and the other two countries has worsened. The US and Taiwan have a similar view on human ri…
The Incurious Approach to East Asian Populism
The East Asian democracies (EAD) of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have received little attention from the international political science community working on populism. By analyzing the last two to three decades of research on EAD we look for clues to help us explain why there is so little interest. In our review we encounter cases of eclectic conceptualization, suboptimal data, innovative categorization, binary analytics, and even political bias…
Populist Discourses in Taiwan and the Case of Han Kuo-yu
The article analyses the rise and fall of the Kuomintang candidate in the 2020 Taiwanese presidential election, Han Kuo-yu. It examines how three leading Taiwanese newspapers, the China Times , the Liberty Times , and the United Daily News , have reported about him and his populist strategy and style. Han Kuo-yu is almost uniformly viewed as a populist due to his anti-elite discourse, self-styling as a common man, and use of simple and direct lan…
Two Chinese tales of human rights– Mainland China’s and Taiwan’s external human rights strategies
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) (Taiwan) have taken divergent paths in the area of human rights. Since the two leaders Xi Jinping and Tsai Ing-wen came to power, the differences in the area of human rights have further increased. The paper analyses and compares their external human rights strategies based on realist assumptions and the soft and hard power resources of the PRC and the ROC. The PRC’s objectives …
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU
For a long time, Taiwan was confined to being an object of the EU's China policy, but the EU increasingly treats Taiwan as a partner in its own right. EU-Taiwan relations are in their most dynamic stage since the EU opened its representative office in Taipei in 2003. But the 'One China policy' still constrains EU-Taiwan relations, as the EU only recognizes the People's Republic of China as a sovereign state and not Taiwan. The article analyzes EU…
Menschenrechtsdiskurse in China und Den USA
Menschenrechtsdiskurse in China und Den USA
Media coverage of human rights in China
Existing analyses of human rights coverage by the media rarely explain why some human rights violations make headlines while others do not. The objective of this study is to examine how human rights in China are covered in three Chinese and US newspapers, and which factors influence the coverage. The Sino-American relationship and human rights discourses in the countries of origin of the newspapers are important factors explaining the selective n…
The EU’s Foreign and Security Policy in a Globalized World
Human Rights in the EU and the US
The EU and the United States are the most important state promoters of human rights and share a common human rights legacy. However, the human rights approaches of the EU and the US display crucial differences in comparison to each other: first, the acceptance of social and economic rights in Europe v. a focus on individual freedom in the US; second, a stricter and harsher law enforcement in the US; and third, the possibility for EU citizens to a…
Human Rights and Democracy in Taiwan’s Foreign Policy and Cross-Strait Relations
Since the 1990s, Taiwan has achieved an impressive democratisation that has made it one of the most vibrant democratic societies in Asia. Most of the existing research about Taiwan’s foreign policy and cross-strait relations neglects how Taiwan’s identity and role as a democratic and pluralistic state influences the island’s external relations. This article analyses how Taiwan’s achievements in the field of democracy and human rights affect Taiwa…
Rainbow Island
In May 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to introduce same-sex marriage. After much debate and controversy in Taiwanese society and politics, Taiwan’s parliament passed a same-sex marriage law. The law implemented a ruling of Taiwan’s Constitutional Court that decided in May 2017 that Taiwan’s legislature must change the civil law to allow same-sex couples to marry in two years’ time. What are the reasons behind Taiwan’s comparatively…
The human rights gap in the Taiwan Strait
The paper describes the growing human rights gap between China on one side and the US and Taiwan on the other side and analyses its impact on cross-strait relations. Since Xi Jinping’s ascent to power in the People’s Republic of China in 2012/2013 and the elections of Donald Trump in the US and Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan in 2016, the relationship between China and the other two countries has worsened. The US and Taiwan have a similar view on human ri…
Two Chinese tales of human rights– Mainland China’s and Taiwan’s external human rights strategies
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) (Taiwan) have taken divergent paths in the area of human rights. Since the two leaders Xi Jinping and Tsai Ing-wen came to power, the differences in the area of human rights have further increased. The paper analyses and compares their external human rights strategies based on realist assumptions and the soft and hard power resources of the PRC and the ROC. The PRC’s objectives …
Who will be Asia’s Next Unicorn? Comparing Marriage Equality in Taiwan with Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea
In May 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to introduce same-sex marriage. This article compares the path to same-sex marriage in Taiwan with the situation in three of its neighbours – Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea – where similar debates have proceeded without yet achieving marriage equality. Advocates for marriage equality in Taiwan’s neighbours can learn some lessons from the experience of the island democracy. First, the struggle…
Populism in East Asian Democracies
Diagnosing a gap in our knowledge on populist phenomena in East Asian democracies, especially the lack of attention paid to the region by comparative studies, the organisers of the online lecture series ‘Populism in East Asian Democracies’ (PinEAD) brought together small but substantial research on East Asia by inviting presentations by nine experts, three each on Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Their findings showed how different phenomena and a…
Han Fei and conceptions of universal and Chinese human rights
Han Fei (around 280 to 233 B.C.) advocates a strong and orderly state based on the absolute authority of the state and the law. Han Fei is usually not associated with human rights. His philosophy is difficult to reconcile with civil and political human rights, even if some of his political concepts support the realization of certain human rights. However, Han Fei’s ideas help us to gain a better understanding of the People’s Republic of China’s o…
Explaining Cross-Strait Relations with Regional Integration Theory
Regional integration theory can explain past and present processes of cross-strait integration and disintegration. Historical institutionalism can analyse how the path dependence of the ‘One China policy’ shapes cross-strait relations until today and how fundamental changes can occur through critical junctures. Neofunctionalism can well explain the dynamics of economic integration through spillovers and spillbacks driven by transnational actors s…
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU
For a long time, Taiwan was confined to being an object of the EU's China policy, but the EU increasingly treats Taiwan as a partner in its own right. EU-Taiwan relations are in their most dynamic stage since the EU opened its representative office in Taipei in 2003. But the 'One China policy' still constrains EU-Taiwan relations, as the EU only recognizes the People's Republic of China as a sovereign state and not Taiwan. The article analyzes EU…
Populist Discourses in Taiwan and the Case of Han Kuo-yu
The article analyses the rise and fall of the Kuomintang candidate in the 2020 Taiwanese presidential election, Han Kuo-yu. It examines how three leading Taiwanese newspapers, the China Times , the Liberty Times , and the United Daily News , have reported about him and his populist strategy and style. Han Kuo-yu is almost uniformly viewed as a populist due to his anti-elite discourse, self-styling as a common man, and use of simple and direct lan…
Less panda, more dragon – Moving towards realism in EU–China relations
The European Union and China have a relationship that is characterized by strong economic interdependence. But since Xi Jinping’s ascent to power, the gap in power and interests between the EU and China has widened, and cooperation has become more difficult. As a result, the EU’s China policy has shifted towards a more structural realist perspective, strategy, and policy. The EU’s realist turn will be analysed in two major areas of the EU–China r…
The Incurious Approach to East Asian Populism
The East Asian democracies (EAD) of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have received little attention from the international political science community working on populism. By analyzing the last two to three decades of research on EAD we look for clues to help us explain why there is so little interest. In our review we encounter cases of eclectic conceptualization, suboptimal data, innovative categorization, binary analytics, and even political bias…
Political science (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · China (9 works) · Human rights (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Development economics (5 works)