Uni-Tübingen

Dr. André Beckershoff

Name: André Beckershoff 貝安德
  Resident Fellow
Email-Address: andre.beckershoff[at]ercct.uni-tuebingen.de
Project Title: Contesting Hegemony: Social forces in the Re-Making of Cross-Strait relations
Phone: +49 (07071) 2973112
Room: 115

Publications

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Edited Volumes

  • Assessing the Presidency of Ma Ying-jiu in Taiwan. Hopeful Beginning, Hopeless End? (with Gunter Schubert) 2018. London and New York: Routledge. LINK (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351045117)

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Current Research Project

The relations between China and Taiwan have until recently been characterized by the contradiction of economic integration and political antagonism. Most puzzling is the form their recent political rapprochement has taken: as ideological obstacles block the road to formal intergovernmental cooperation, political practices have been displaced into the transnational space. In his PhD project "The Transnationalization of Cross-Strait Relations" (working title), André Beckershoff asks why inter-actions across the Strait have taken this particular form. What are the conditions of its emergence? How can we best describe its inner workings? What are the consequences of the transnationalization of authority?

 

Building on the thought of Antonio Gramsci and Pierre Bourdieu, the project seeks to empirically analyze the specific mechanisms by which the hegemonic project across various civil society factions seeks to create consent, to forge compromises, to co-opt, or to marginalize integration-skeptic forces. It further asks, how the relationship of economic and political relations are re-articulated in the light of these developments, and how legitimacy is constructed.

Biography

Dr. André Beckershoff, born in Münster, studied Political Science (major), Modern History and Public Law (minors) at the University of Münster, where in 2008 he earned his degree (Magister Artium) with his master thesis “The China-Taiwan Conflict as an Arms Race Environment”.

In 2005 and 2006 he studied at the Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP) in Toulouse, France. In 2011 and 2012 he was Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan.

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