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Researcher

Jasper Roctus

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Awards & Distinctions

39 Results

2026

A Leninist democrat? Taiwan’s democratisation defined through Sun Yat-sen

A2 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TAIWAN STUDIES

2025

Belgium-Taiwan relations : balancing EU alignment and regional dynamics

Bookchapter in Partners in need, partners indeed? Tracking Europe-Taiwan relations amidst global disruption

BRICS+ : an odd family of (un)likely frenemies

Bart DesseinJasper Roctus

Bridging Taiwan’s blue-green divide : the twentieth anniversary of the 2005 Chen-Soong Meeting (扁宋會)

Chosen traumas : China’s everlasting century of humiliation and Sino-European relations

Bookchapter in Narrating China and Europe in uncertain times

Contagious democracy? A historical case for a defensive normative approach for the EU’s cross-Strait policy

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PHILOSOPHY

Cross-strait tensions in 2025 : why escalation remains unlikely

EU–China relations after the 2024 European elections : a European perspective

Bart DesseinJasper Roctus

Editorial material

Jonathan Sullivan and Lev Nachman, Taiwan : a contested democracy under threat

Narrating a Christian Leninist anti-Marxist democratic developmental nationalist : Sun Yat-Sen as father of the nation and great revolutionary forerunner

Jasper RoctusBart Dessein

Sun Yat-sen, '400 million Chinese', and the fear of demographic stagnation in early Twentieth-century China

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CHINESE STUDIES

Taiwan during the first administration of Tsai Ing-wen : navigating in stormy waters

Taiwan in the era of Tsai Ing-wen : changes and challenges

The (in)auspicious number four : an assessment of the Fourth Plenum of the twentieth national congress of the CCP

Jasper RoctusBart Dessein

The European Union and cross-strait relations : just what is 'its' one-China policy?

A2 Journal Article in 政治學報 = ZHÈNGZHÌ XUÉBÀO = CHINESE POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW

The Third Plenum of the Twentieth Party Congress : ideological fervor, economic pragmatism, and the possibilities for EU-China relations

Bart DesseinJasper Roctus

A1 Journal Article in ASIA EUROPE JOURNAL

2024

China, the West, and the rest : who is enjoying the shadow of whom?

Jasper RoctusBart Dessein

Figures on the billiard table : EU-China dynamics in the wake of the 2024 European elections

Jasper RoctusBart Dessein

Lai Ching-te inaugurated in Taiwan : managing legislative turmoil and cross-strait status quo

The 2024 Taiwanese general elections : fierce moderate Lai prevails while fluid kingmaker Ko rises

Vietnam’s bamboo diplomacy : between Beijing’s persistent shadow and growing Western ties

2023

As two go Blue, will Green be the tertius gaudens of Taiwan’s 2024 elections?

Between Taiwanese elections : the KMT’s quest for 'true blue'

China’s 14th National People’s Congress : no ordinary cups of tea

Jasper RoctusBart Dessein

Modernist protestantism triumphs over Chinese superstitions : Sun Yat-sen's religious quest to overthrow the Yellow Empire

Bookchapter in Continuity and change in Asia

The EU and Taiwan : normalizing the status quo

The KMT selects its presidential candidate : can uniting all non-green friends make Taiwan go blue in 2024?

‘Remonstrating,’ or the Art of Forging Relations

Bart DesseinJasper Roctus

2022

'Modernist protestantism' triumphs 'Chinese superstition' : how Blue China’s Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Yellow Empire

De Oorlog in Oekraïne : de noodzaak van het waarborgen van één wereld

Bart DesseinJasper RoctusSven Biscop

A4 Journal Article in GIDS OP MAATSCHAPPELIJK GEBIED

Local elections in Taiwan : the DPP’s China card backfires

Mariah Thornton, Robert F. Ash, and Dafydd Fell (eds) (2021), Taiwan's economic and diplomatic challenges and opportunities

Outspokenly unspoken : the Chinese people's 'White Paper Revolution'

Bart DesseinJasper Roctus

Poetin creëert de multipolaire wereld die hij (dacht dat hij) wilde

Sven BiscopBart DesseinJasper Roctus

Article in a magazine

Putin is creating the multipolar world he (thought he) wanted

Sven BiscopBart DesseinJasper Roctus

Sun Yat-sen, Minsheng, Marxism, and the question of labour

A2 Journal Article in CRITICAL THEORY (BRISTOL)

Xi Jinping seeks stability : the 20th National Congress of the CCP

Bart DesseinJasper RoctusSven Biscop

2020

Remolding China’s ‘empty’ Belt and Road Initiative : an opportunity for the EU

Remoulding China’s 'empty' belt and road initiative : an opportunity for the EU