| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 102 === In 1971, the UN expelled Taiwan, ROC and transferred China''s seat to the People''s Republic of China (PRC). From that time up until recently, the PRC has suppressed Taiwan everywhere, trying to frustrate it in each respect on the international stage. However, in 2010 the two sides signed the ECFA, and after that time, Taiwan pondered on how to rejoin the international society, including how to return to the United Nations. This thesis considers that Taiwan should take active participation in International NGOs (INGOs) as the first step to reach the purpose.
Through the literature review, this thesis found that in view of the previous participation experience involved in the INGOs and the challenges and limitations Taiwan faced, providing a practical field for INGOs activities for the cross-strait joint participation, as called “The Third Way” in this thesis, could be a ideal solution to deal with the situation. Under the theory of “The Third Way”, this thesis analyzes that Taiwan should not just participate in INGOs activities; instead, Taiwan should consider how to transform Taipei City into the INGOs’ headquarters by virtue of its special status in the world.
As New York City is generally recognized as the “World Capital”, one hand this thesis contemplates transforming Taipei City into the Headquarters of the INOGs; on the other hand its viewpoint is to make Taipei City become another World Capital after New York City. To collect the study materials for this thesis, the author utilized his own 25-year Taipei City councilor experiences and studied related documentation to deeply understand the currently existing global parliament assemblies as well as the local councils associations. The author found that not ever had an organization, which globally assembles national or regional council, been established in the world. By calling the 2014 Annual Meeting of Taiwan Local Councils Representatives Community Forum (TCF) in June, the founder of TCF, the author himself, took the opportunity to introduce the initiation of the establishment of the Global Councils Forum (GCF) to the invited foreign attendees, the presidents of the state/regional/local legislative associations from the USA, Japan and the EU, and proposed hosting the first GCF Meeting in Taipei in 2015, and locating the Headquarters of the GCF in Taipei. From the initiation of the GCF to hosting the first meeting to GCF’s Headquarters proposal, all of these structured routes have initially reflected the keynote study in this thesis.
This thesis aims to explore the practice and future path of establishing Taipei as the INGOs’ Headquarters and the World Capital through the GCF organization. If supporting with the domestic political theories, such as Cross-Strait Peace Agreement, Cross-Strait Integrating, One China Three Constitutions and Three Seats across the Straits in Professor Chang Ya-Chung, China under One Roof Expanded in Huang Nian, Chinese Parliamentary Advocate in Hsu Hsin-liang, and With Soviet Model to UN for Two Sides in Mainland scholar Yan Xuetong, as well as One China Framework and One China Structure in Wu-Xi Meeting (June 2013), all of these theories will perfect the research topics of this thesis. When Taiwan is fundamentally excluded in the international society and from participation in International Government Organizations, this thesis found that transforming Taipei City into the INGOs’ Headquarters as the field of practice for the cross-strait mutual participation provides a third way, a way that Taiwan could resolve the "deep antagonism arises if taking indirect contact with Mainland China” and “huge political risks exist if seeking cooperation with Mainland China" dilemma.
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