{"product_id":"9789819563067","title":"Forging Enmity in the Taiwan Strait: Attuned Misrecognition and Targeted Invalidation in the Making of a Hobbesian Culture","description":"\u003ch1\u003eForging Enmity in the Taiwan Strait: Attuned Misrecognition and Targeted Invalidation in the Making of a Hobbesian Culture\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eLynch, Daniel C.; Yau, Cody Wai-Kwok\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe Taiwan Strait conflict threatens to shatter the global economy and draw the world into war. What makes this increasingly heated perpetual standoff so uniquely intractable?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eForging Enmity in the Taiwan Strait\u003c\/em\u003e explains the conflict as an existential collision between political communities expressing collective identities that are bedrock mutually exclusive. For the Chinese Community Party, Taiwan’s autonomy sabotages the “Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation.” For the major political communities in Taiwan, cross-Strait unification would mean the annihilation of Taiwan’s cherished democratic autonomous selfhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eThis book uncovers the toxic dynamics that keep the rival communities locked in their spiral of hostility. The core of the cross-Strait conflict is not some tragic misunderstanding. It is instead a \u003cem\u003eprocess\u003c\/em\u003e in which each community supplies the others with \u003cem\u003eattuned misrecognition\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe key actors – Taiwan’s competing Green and Blue camps, and the PRC’s Red leadership – all possess an acute understanding of the others, and all weaponize this understanding through targeted invalidation: deliberately denying the recognition that the others crave.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eBased on a big-data-fueled analysis of Green, Blue, and Red political commentary, this book reveals how cross-Strait enmity is actively constructed. The book offers an essential explanation for why the key actors risk their physical safety – Taiwan’s and China’s both –\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eto defend their sense of a collective self, and why the Strait remains the world's most dangerous flashpoint.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2026-04-24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789819563067\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-981-95-6307-4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 275\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45228880429196,"sku":"9789819563067","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789819563067.jpg?v=1779654470","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9789819563067","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}