1. Editor’s statement

   • Gordon C. K. Cheung

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 4

2. Cross-strait relations: Heading for collision?

   • Weixing Hu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 15

3. The global constitution of “Taiwan democracy”: Opening up the image of a successful state after 9/11

   • Chih-yu Shih

   OriginalPaper Pages: 16 - 38

4. Beijing’s wait-and-see policy toward Taiwan: An uncertain future

   • Suisheng Zhao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 60

5. Regime change and the PRC’s Taiwan policy in the DPP era

   • Quansheng Zhao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 85

6. Western Europe and north Korea: New openings and old problems

   • Brian Bridges

   Articles Pages: 86 - 107

7. The Russo-Japanese visa-less exchange program: Opportunities and limits

   • Brad Williams

   Articles Pages: 108 - 133