
Faculty

Professor Wang, Hung-Jen
Ph.D., University of Tübingen, Germany
50265
hjwang@mail.ncku.edu.tw
International security, global governance, East Asian international relations, European politics, cross-strait relations (China-Taiwan), Chinese foreign policy, Sino-US relations
CURRENT POSITION
- Professor, Political Science Department, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (R.O.C.), August 2021~now
EXPERIENCES
- Consultant, Straits Exchange Foundation, January 2022-December 2022
- General Secretary, Taiwan Society of Japan Studies, November 2020~now
- GW East Asia NRC Scholar (Non-resident), The George Washington University, September 2020-August 2022
- Fulbright Senior Scholar, 2019-2020
- Non-resident scholar at the George Washington University's Sigur Center for Asian Studies, June 1, 2019-September 1, 2020
- Visiting Scholar, Center for United Nations Constitutional Research (Brussels, Belgium), July- September 2018
- Visiting Scholar, Stimson Center (Washington DC, USA), July-August 2016; August-September 2017.
- Visiting Researcher, GIGA, University of Hamburg (Germany), December 2014.
- Postdoc Research Fellow, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), September 2012~January 2014.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Dissertation: ‘China’s Rise and Chinese International Relations (IR) Scholarship’. - MA in Political Science, University of Denver, USA.
- MA in Political Science, Queen’s University of Belfast, UK.
Thesis: ‘Why the Need for Bridge-Building: On Alexander Wendt’s Social Theory of International Politics’. - BA in Political Science, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- International Relations theories, international security, global governance (esp. in China’s rising role).
開授課程
- 上學期:美國政府與政治、政治學方法論(一)、亞洲安全:理論與政策(大學部、碩班)、中共外交政策(碩專)
- 下學期:中共外交政策、歐洲各國政府與政治、亞洲安全:理論與政策(碩專)
PUBLICATIONS
A. Books
- Wang, Hung-jen. Taiwan and the Changing Dynamics of Sino-US Relations: A Relational Approach (London and New York: Routledge, 2022).
- Chih-yu Shih, Hung-jen Wang and et al., China and International Theory: The Balance of Relationships (Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019).
- Wang, Hung-jen. The Rise of China and Chinese International Relations (IR) Scholarship (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013).
B. Book chapters
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Deconstructing the Established Westphalian Architecture in Light of China's Rise’. In: Emilian Kavalski ed., China's Rise and Rethinking International Relations Theory (Bristol University Press, Feb. 16, 2022).
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘How Chinese IR Theory Responds to the Power Transition’. In: David Walton and Emilian Kavalski eds., Power Transition in Asia (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017), pp. 59-74. [ISBN: 978-1-4724-4946-7]
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Subjective Knowledge Foundation of the Cross-Taiwan Straits International Peace Discourse’. In: Bart Dessein ed., Interpreting China as a Regional and Global Power (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 83-98. [ISBN: 978-1-137-45029-6]
C. Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
- Wang, Hung-jen, 'Chinese IR Scholarship as a Relational Epistemology in the Study of China's Rise', The China Quarterly. (April 2020) [SSCI]
- Chih-yu Shih and Hung-jen Wang (corresponding author). ‘Thinking Bilaterally, Acting Unilaterally: Placing China’s Institutional Style in Relational IR’. China: An International Journal, 17:1 (February 2019), pp. 3-25. [SSCI]
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘China’s Assertive Relational Strategies: Engagement, Boycotting, Reciprocation and Press’, Issues & Studies, 54:3 (September 2018). [SCOPUS]
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Traditional Empire-Modern State Hybridity: Chinese Tianxia and Westphalian Anarchy’, Global Constitutionalism, 6: 2 (July 2017), pp. 298-326.
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Contextualising China’s Call for Discourse Power in International Politics’. China: An International Journal, 13: 3 (December 2015), pp. 172-189. [SSCI]
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Being Uniquely Universal: Building Chinese International Relations Theory’. Journal of Contemporary China, 22: 81 (May 2013), pp. 518-34. [SSCI]
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Liberalism and National Identity in Taiwan: Four Orientations toward Democratization’. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 41:3 (2012), pp. 93-116.
D. Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (in Chinese)
- Wang, Hung-jen.〈中國「帶路倡議」影響「中」歐關係發展之探析〉‘Revisiting the Impact of China’s “Belt & Road Initiative” on Sino-European Relations’.《國際與公共事務》International and Public Affairs, 8 (June 2018).
- Wang, Hung-jen.〈中國大陸的單邊和平外交與關係模式:習近平是新轉變,還是胡調重彈?〉‘Mainland China’s Unilateral Peace Diplomacy and Relationality Model: What’s New? And So What?’.《中國大陸研究季刊》Mainland China Studies, 60:3 (September 2017), pp. 1-20. [TSSCI]
- Wang, Hung-jen.〈歐洲整合的抉擇:一套共同分析框架的建立〉‘EU Integration: Establishing A Common Analytical Framework’.《國際與公共事務》International and Public Affairs, 2 (November 2015), pp. 61-88.
- Wang, Hung-jen.〈中國話語權意涵:一種主觀認識論途徑〉‘Implications of China’s Call for “Discourse Power”: A Subjective Epistemological Approach to China’s Emerging Role’.《國際安全研究》Journal of International Security Studies, 5 (2013), pp. 138-153. [Shanghai, China]
E. Journal Articles under Review
- Wang, Hung-jen and Chih-yu Shih. ‘Thinking Bilaterally, Acting Unilaterally: Placing China’s Institutional Style in Relational IR’.
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Post-1990s Chinese International Relations Scholarship: Great Power Self- Identity with a Pacifist Self-Image’.
F. Conference Papers
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Global Counterterrorism Movement: How Does China Fight It at Home and Abroad?’ ISA Annual Convention 2018, April 4-7, 2018, San Francisco, USA.
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Impacts of Xi Jinping’s Power Centralization on Chinese Foreign Policy: “Great Power” Assertiveness or a New ‘China Model’?’ 2017 Institute for International Relations Annual Taiwan-America Conference on China, November 16-17, 2017, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Relational Concerns in Making/Breaking Peace: China’s Foreign Policy towards the Korean Peninsula’, the World Congress for Korean Politics and Society 2017, “Rebuilding Trust in Peace and Democracy”, June 22-24, 2017, Yonsei University Shinchon, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Rising Pessimism about China-US Relations: Will Taiwan Benefit?’, ISA International Conference 2017 in Hong Kong, June 15-18, 2017, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China.
- Wang, Hung-jen, and Chih-yu Shih. ‘Hanging on without a solution: Patience and Trust in Chinese International Relations’, Fifth Global International Studies Conference, April 1-3, 2017, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘A New Great Power Connection? Revisiting the Sino-US Bilateral Relationship and its Impacts on Asia-Pacific Security’, ISA’s 58th Annual Convention, February 22-25, 2017, Baltimore, Maryland, US.
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘The hidden role of Marxism in current Chinese foreign policy’, ISA’s 57th Annual Convention, March 16-19, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia, US.
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Traditional Empire-Modern State Hybridity: Chinese Tianxia and Westphalian Anarchy’, the 74th annual MPSA conference, April 7-10, 2016, Chicago. Wang, Hung-jen.〈中美日亞太競合情勢分析〉,「亞太區域研究」學術研討會,2016年3 月18-19 日,中山大學。
- Wang, Hung-jen.〈習近平主政下的中國大陸外交走向: 是新轉變,還是老調重彈?〉,「中國研究」學術研討會,2015 年3 月,南華大學。
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Images of Taiwan in Two Major American Newsweeklies, 1990-2013’. July 13-14, 2014 at Inauguration of the ERCCT as CCK Foundation Overseas Center Symposium at Tuebingen University, Germany.
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘The Choice for EU Integration: Establishing A Common Framework for Analysis,’「歐亞區域整合的新發展」學術研討會,2014 年5 月20 日,南華大學成均館。
- Wang, Hung-jen.〈海峽兩岸的國際和平論述及其主觀知識基礎〉,重慶第六屆兩岸青年學者會議,3 月18-21 日。
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Circumventing the Sovereign State? Intervention from Chinese Perspectives’. Presented at “8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations: One International Relations or Many? Multiple Worlds, Multiple Crises’, September 18-21, 2013 at Warsaw, Poland.
- Wang, Hung-jen . ‘Sun Yat-sen’s Unfinished Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy’. Presented at “Unfinished Revolution: Revisiting the Legacy of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and His Time’, November 11-13, 2011 at National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
- Wang, Hung-jen. ‘Being Uniquely Universal: Chinese IR Theory Building’. Presented at the Seventh Annual Graduate Seminar on China, January 5-8, 2011 at Chinese University of Hong Kong.
G. Book Reviews
- Wang, Hung-jen. Book Review on Asian Thought on China’s Changing International Relations, Niv Horesh and Emilian Kavalski, eds., 2014. In European Review of International Studies 2:2 (2015).
- Wang, Hung-jen. Book Review on Political Change in China: Comparisons with Taiwan, Bruce Gilley and Larry Diamond, eds., 2008. In Bijiao: China in Comparative Perspective Book Review 1 (2011).
H. Others
- Wang, Hung-jen.〈新「中國威脅論」的興起與日本的角色〉,《當代日本研究學會通訊》Taiwan Society of Japan Studies, TSJS, (2018 年4 月號), pp. 5-7.
- Wang, Hung-jen.〈全球治理的實踐困境:以COP23 為例〉‘The Predicament of Global Governance Practices: Review COP23 Achievements’.《全球政治評論》Review of Global Politics, 61 (2018), pp. 25-30.
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