The Future of Globalization

Yun-han Chu (1956-2023) is Distinguished Research Fellow of Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. He serves concurrently as President of Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. Professor Chu specializes in politics of Greater China, democratization, East Asian political economy, and international political economy. He is the founding Director of Asian Barometer Survey, a regional network of survey on democracy, governance and development covering more than nineteen Asian Pacific countries. He also serves as Co-chair of the Executive Council of Global Barometer Surveys, the world's largest social science survey research network. Prof. Chu was a past President of Chinese Association of Political Science (Taipei) in 2002-2004 and a member of the Council of American Political Science Association (2009-2011). In 2012, he was elected an Academician of Academia Sinica, the country's highest academic honour, and in 2016 a Fellow of the World Academy of Science (TWAS). He received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota, his alma mater, in 2015. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of seventeen books. Among his recent English publications are How East Asians View Democracy(Columbia University Press, 2008) Citizens, Elections and Parties in East Asia(Lynne Reinner, 2008), Democracy in East Asia: A New Century(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), Handbook of Democratization in East Asia (Routledge, 2017), The Decline of WesternCentric World and the Emerging Global Order in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2021), and Understandings of Democracy: Origins and Consequences beyond the West (Oxford University Press, 2021).