| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 102 === Due to differential paces of political and economic developments of the Central and Eastern Countries, and limited diplomatic resources at Taiwan’s disposal, a rational choice should be made by Taiwan in developing its relations with the Central and Eastern Countries to maximize its benefits of the national interest. Based on accounts mentioned above, there would be four divided groups among the Central and Eastern Countries as subjects of the thesis, such as the Visegrad Group (Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, V4), the Baltic Countries (Lithuanian, Latvia and Estonia), 4 EU Balkan Countries (Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia), and 6 non-EU Balkan Countries (Serbia, Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo).
The thesis would like to sort out and interpret by structural perspective the political economy context of the evolution of the relations between Taiwan and the Central and Eastern Countries, from the periods of Eastern European Democratization, through the break-up of the Soviet Union, and the EU eastward enlargement. Under the hypothesis of prior target policy, the thesis considers that the basis of the relations between Taiwan and the Central and Eastern Countries should still be constructed by three approaches. First, Taiwan should continue deepening its relations with V4, then promote its relations with the Baltic Countries, and set up a representative office in Balkan Region as soon as possible.
The conclusion of the thesis has found: a. the model of relations of Taiwan and V4, which serves as a reference to build relations with any Balkan country, is workable; b. while promoting its relations with the Baltic Countries, Taiwan could take them as a whole and develop its relations with individual Baltic Country under the cost-benefit consideration, based on specific advantages such as political, trade and scientific areas. Besides, Taiwan should assist its businessmen in handling the Baltic’s geographical advantage to run businesses in both Northern European Countries and Russia’s markets; c. running Balkan should be particularly advantageous to having good access to energy and sharing its potential wealth, whilst it could be also taken into part of Taiwan’s grand strategy toward Europe.
Taiwan had been developing its relations with the Central and Eastern Countries for nearly 25 years since, it is a good moment for Taiwan to review its current policy. Some policy suggestions would like to be offered from the thesis as following: a. running Balkan should be taken as a new Central and Eastern Countries for Taiwan; b. setting up an official representative institution of Taiwan in Balkan Region should be done as soon as possible; c. relations with the Balkan Countries for Taiwan could be developed by ‘dual-B drive’, in other words, through Brussels and Budapest.
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