Taiwan's voters have changed government for only the second time, re-installing the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in the presidency. KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) defeated the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) by almost a 17 percent margin. Ma was the favorite in the election and opinion polls had at one time put him as many as 25 percentage points ahead of Hsieh.

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By Wang Yeh-lih 王業立
The campaign for the presidency ended with yesterday's election and as predicted by many opinion polls, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) was elected, garnering 58 percent of the vote. With his election, the KMT reclaims the reins of power after eight years in opposition, providing yet another example to support US political scientist Samuel Huntington's saying that democratic consolidation requires two government transitions.

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By Wen Liao
Why is China behaving as it is in Tibet? What makes Tibet so important to the government in Beijing? At the heart of the matter is the fact that nothing worries China's rulers more than when the country's unity is called into question. And nothing makes them more anxious than their fear that a regional dispute might, if not brought to an end quickly, steamroll into national disintegration.

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By Lai Shiow-suey 賴秀穗
On March 20, 1997, news broke of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among pigs in Taiwan. The government ordered 3.8 million pigs slaughtered.

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The whole process of who deserves statehood and under what circumstances is blurred by the reluctance of states to relinquish territorial integrity in favor of collective self-determination
By Qerim Qerimi
We come back again to that old, yet contemporary and fundamental, question in international relations: self-determination.

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The foreign presence in soccer clubs surpasses anything we see in other areas of international commerce and can offer insight into how to best make a team
By Dani Rodrik
How does globalization reshape wealth and opportunity around the world? Is it mainly a force for good, enabling poor nations to lift themselves up from poverty by taking part in global markets? Or does it create vast opportunities only for a small minority?

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