2026 APSA-CGOTS Call for Proposals

Submit your proposal here: APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2026
Submission deadline: January 14, 2026

The 2026 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting will be held on September 3-6, 2026, in Boston, Massachusetts. The Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS) invites paper and panel proposals on research related to Taiwan for our CGOTS panels.

The result of Taiwan’s 2024 presidential election marked the unprecedented third win in a row since 2016 for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). However, while the DPP continues to dominate the executive branch of Taiwan’s political system, it is no longer the majority in Taiwan’s legislature. The development of this challenging political situation of divided/minority government and its impacts on, as well as its implications for, Taiwan’s domestic politics and foreign relations are undoubtedly worth a close examination by those who are interested in issues about Taiwan.

In addition to experiencing a challenging political situation at home, Taiwan is encountering new developments abroad as well. China has been increasing its hostility against Taiwan with, among other things, more and more military exercises and operations targeting the island. As for Taiwan’s biggest ally, the US, it is entering a new political landscape with Donald Trump returning to the White House and the Republican Party being the majority for both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Whether and how the changes of the US domestic and foreign policies as a result of this new political development in the US have affected and will continue to affect the relations between the US and Taiwan, as well as Taiwan’s political and economic development, in the context of growing Sino-US competition in the international system is worth pondering by both academic and policy circles.

We welcome proposals that employ innovative, diverse, and interdisciplinary approaches to comprehensively and comparatively examine Taiwan’s domestic politics and foreign relations. Issues that could be explored include but of course are not limited to Taiwan’s civil society and social movements, electoral politics and political participation in Taiwan, Taiwan’s party system and partisan conflict, the Taiwanese government’s domestic and foreign policies, Taiwan’s identity politics and its relations with China, Taiwan-US relations in the context of Sino-US competition, Taiwan’s international status and foreign relations in Asia and beyond, etc. Our panels aim to foster reflective and critical discourse on these subject matters, with no limitations on the scope and topics covered. Overall, we hope to shed light on our understanding of Taiwan and its future within the global context while increasing Taiwan’s international visibility.
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Please send your paper or panel proposals to the APSA through their submission process. If you have any questions, please contact the CGOTS Coordinator, Dr. Chien-Kai Chen ([email protected]). Travel support for CGOTS panelists is subject to the availability of external funding.