Formulating the Peaceful Integration Patterns across the Taiwan Strait

[[abstract]]Abstract The only way to achieve perpetual peace between Taiwan and China ,which is how to be lead toward the peaceful integration patterns. In Taiwan academic community, many have already offered prescriptive integration patterns ; however, most of them build up theories or framework without following empirical materials. This dissertation is base on empirical materials for analysis framework, and hope to develop a general theory of peaceful integration patterns in order to explain and predict the cross-strait relation the given and future in term of peaceful development. The thesis demonstrates given situation there are opportunities and challenges under economic integration. From perspective of risks, because the given of cross-strait is under ad-normalization and non-institutionalization between Taiwan and China, which lead also to controversies on China policy in Taiwan’s domestic partisans. From perspective of opportunity, the given of economic interdependence between cross-Strait could be described as the term, “Constructing Global Commodity Supply Chain by two sides of Taiwan Strait ”, and it will be the best protective mechanism for Taiwan security. In addition, by the approach of the “Neo-liberal Institutionalism”, “International Institution” is the important analytical dimension to affect international security and promote cooperation each other, “Institution Integration” was designed as the second variable. In term of the approach of the “Constructivism”, it emphasizes the importance of value identification and shared knowledge; the international system is defined by material construction has been understood through their conceptive construction frame. Because democratic value shared and practices would be vital demansion for peace between Cross-Strait, the thesis designated “shared democratic value” as the third observing variable to examine the social facts across Taiwan Strait. Formulating hypotheses from relationships among “economic interdependence”, “institutional integration”, “shared democratic value” and the relationships connecting one of them with the other two can establish the theory of “Triangulating Peace across Taiwan Strait”, and contributed to the common theory of Peace model of Cross-Strait.