Chih-Chieh Chou

Dr. Chih-Chieh Chou is Professor of Political Science at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan, Taiwan, where he previously chaired both the Department of Political Science and the Graduate Institute of Political Economy. He also directs NCKU’s Center for Cross-Taiwan Strait and Chinese Societies Governance and serves as an off-site Researcher at the Taiwan Economic Research Institute. In addition, he is a registered arbitrator with the Chinese Arbitration Association (Taipei) and a consultant on Taiwanese business in China for Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research interests include international relations and law, East Asian political economy, cross-strait relations, human rights, political change, and state-society relations in Chinese societies.