Assessing the Prospects for Armed Conflict in the Taiwan Strait

Scott L. Kastner is a Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He graduated from Cornell University (1995) and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego (2003). Much of Kastner’s research focuses on the international politics of East Asia, and he teaches classes on international relations, US-China relations, international political economy and East Asia. He is author of Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence across the Taiwan Strait and Beyond (Stanford University Press, 2009), and co-editor (with Ming-Chin Monique Chu) of Globalization and Security Relations across the Taiwan Strait: In the Shadow of China (Routledge, 2015). His work has also appeared in the many prominent journals.