ABSTRACT

The discussion of actors involved in Taiwan’s foreign policy process in the preceding chapter focused largely on formal institutional actors-the president, the legislature and the foreign affairs bureaucracy. These organizations are all legal parts of the Taiwanese government and play formal roles in crafting and implementing policy. The chapter also showed how Taiwan’s foreign policy establishment seeks to employ non-state actors and unconventional diplomatic tactics to achieve its foreign policy goals. These state and non-state actors, however, are not the only “players” in Taiwan’s foreign policy “game.”