International Doctoral Program in Asia-Pacific Studies

Student Topic Advisor Tran Thi Mong Tuyen Vietnam's Strategic Positioning in an Era of Geoeconomic Competition Fu-Kuo Liu Alyssa Marie Fernandez Dispo The Origins of Multi-level Corruption: Negotiating Tribute During the Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Philippines Alex Tan Naruemon Klatookwan Rhythms of Social Reproduction: The Spatio-Temporal Interplay of Migration, Care, and Filipina Care Workers in Taipei Courtney Work & Li-Fang Liang Wipavee Phongpin A Thai Temple as Religious Infrastructure of Care: Precarity and Migrant Life in Taiwan Courtney Work Utkarsh Verma Embeddedness and Defense Industrial Performance: Explaining Variance by Tracing Development of Air Defense Systems in South Korea, India, Taiwan and Israel Ping-Kuei Chen Badrudin Kurniawan Science-Policy Interface: Knowledge Brokerage and Co-Production in Community Energy Policy Process Wen-Ling Tu Pakorn Phalapong Is Taiwan a Destination for Queer Migration? An Illustration of Thai Male-Bodied Gay Migrants in a School-to-Work Transition Ming-Sheng Wang & Ting-Fai Yu Joseph Gloria Cristel Poveda Alvarado Digital Platforms as Integration Opportunity Structures: A Case Study of Vietnamese Migrants Ming-Sheng Wang Jakub Bartosz Klich Plastic Crystals. Becoming Transnational Same-Sex Couples in Taiwan Courtney Work Uma Chinnannan Understanding Retention of Indian High-Skilled Professionals in Taiwan's High-Tech Sectors Chuing Chou Munkhtuya Davaajav Development Policy and Internal Migration in Mongolia Ji-Ping Lin Kulnaree Charoenmuang From Taipei to Beijing: Foreign Policy Adjustments and Diplomatic Shifts in Thailand and the Philippines in the 1970s Tse-Kang Leng András Janos Teleki The Invisible China Watcher: The Impact of László Ladányi and China News Analysis on the Discourse on Mainland China Joe Eaton Ismah Rustam Maritime Governance in the Sulu-Celebes Sea: Collaborative Governance among Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines in Combating IUU Fishing Fu-Kuo Liu Tarida Baikasame The Politics of Climate Legislation Institutionalization: State Agency and Divergent Pathways in Thailand and Vietnam Chung-Min Tsai Marvin Hamor Bernardo Third-Party State Perception on Gray Zone Warfare: A case study of the Philippines and Taiwan dispute with the PRC Chia-Yi Lee Raden Mokhamad Luthfi Institution Matter: Policies, Programs, and the Dynamics of Quadruple Helix in Indonesia's Space Sector Ya-Wen Yu Jan Fischer Factors Having an Impact on Identity of Young People in Taiwan Yeh-Chung Lu Bonggyu Lee "Failure Stories" Investment Immigration Programs in South Korea Chung-Min Tsai Armand Nicodam Camhol Adaptation amidst a hostile environment: The Persistence of Ifugao Shamans and their practices post-colonization Pi-Chen Liu Jan-Philip Blumenscheit Unused Potentials: The Late GDR and Its Chinese Partner Cities Joe Eaton Samuel Vinck Future War and Warfare: The Troubled Context of that Discussion and the Hyperwar Concept Fu-Kuo Liu & Hon-Min Yau Tyler Prochazka Stepping Stones or Basic Income Cognates? A Comparative Analysis of South Korea and Taiwan's Divergent COVID-19 Relief Policy Trajectories Mei-Chuan Wei Nguyen Thi Thuong Adaptive and Progressive Authoritarianism: Decentralization and Liberalization in Vietnam's Clean Energy Governance Tse-Kang Leng Sun Young Park Chipping Interdependence: South Korea and Taiwan's Chip Power Amid US-China Tech Rivalry Shinn-Shyr Wang & Hsin-Hsien Wang Cesar Abbott Social Capital and Economic Participation in Tourism-dependent Communities: A Comparative Research of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and Phuket, Thailand Yen-Pin Su