Jonathan Sullivan is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR) at the University of Nottingham, UK, where he is also Director of the China Policy Institute and the China Soccer Observatory.Chun-Yi Lee is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR) at the University of Nottingham, UK, where she is also Director of the Taiwan Studies Programme.

• 1. Introduction, Jonathan Sullivan and Chun-yi Lee 2. The KMT Coalition Unravels: The 2016 Elections and Taiwan's New Political Landscape, Nathan Batto 3. The Role of Democracy in the Rise of the Taiwanese National Identity, Frank Muyard 4. Taiwan's Political Parties in the aftermath of the 2016 Elections, Dafydd Fell 5. From Protest to Electioneering: Electoral and Party Politics after the Sunflower Movement, Ming-sho Ho 6. The Media in Democratic Taiwan, Jonathan Sullivan, Cien-san Feng, Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley and James Smyth 7. Peace or war with Taiwan in China’s Foreign Policy, Edward Friedman 8. Has Beijing’s Taiwan Policy Failed? And if so, what next?, Shelley Rigger 9. New Directions in Taiwan’s Foreign Policy, Sasa Istenic

"This collection is likely to become a significant and influential example of cross-disciplinary research straddling area studies, political science, and international relations. It testifies to a major step towards combining the thinking and approaches of both the development of Taiwanese democracy and the emergence of a new national identity, which represents an original and meaningful approach in these fields."Beatrice Zani, International Journal of Taiwan Studies