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Professor
College of International Affairs
Education
B.A Political Science,
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 1984
Ph.D. Yale, 1993
Contact Information
Office: 271305
Phone: 2939-3091 ext. 51305
E-mail: lorenzo@nccu.edu.tw
Academic and Professional Experience
National
Chengchi University, 2010-present: Professor, 2015;
Associate Professor 2012; Visiting Associate Professor, 2010.
Virginia
Wesleyan College, 2006-2010: Associate Professor
Jamestown
College, 1997-2006: Professor, 2005; Associate Professor 2001; Assistant
Professor 1997
US
Department of Education, 1995-1997: Policy Development Division, Office of Postsecondary
Education, GS 7, 9, 11
University
of Arkansas at Fayetteville, 1992-1993: Visiting Lecturer/Instructor
Research Interests (研究領域
My research and teaching areas encompass American government, political
theory, international relations and diplomacy.
My research involves the analysis of policy
arguments, most recently those which address issues of war and peace in the United
States.
Courses Taught (NCCU)
International Relations
and Political Philosophy (Graduate)
International Relations
and Political Philosophy (Undergraduate)
Cultural Diplomacy
(Graduate)
Democratization and
Good Governance (Graduate)
American Government:
The Presidency (Undergraduate)
Introduction to World
Politics (Undergraduate)
Introduction to
International Political Economy (Undergraduate)
English For Diplomacy (Undergraduate)
IR
Theory (Graduate)
Sino-American
Relations (Graduate)
Modern
Diplomatic History (Graduate)
American
Foreign Policy (Graduate)
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Publications (著作)
Books
Debating
War: Why Arguments Opposing American Wars and Interventions Lose (New York: Routledge
Press, 2015)
Cities at the End of
the World: Using Utopian and Dystopian Stories to Reflect Critically on Our
Political
Beliefs, Communities and
Ways of Life (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014)
Conceptions of Chinese
Democracy: Reading Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and
Chiang Ching-kuo
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)
Tradition
and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in the Aurobindo Movement (Madison, NJ
and London:
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999).
Journal
Articles
“Opposition
to the Libyan Intervention Among the American Public,”
Tamkang Journal of
International Affairs, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jan.
2014).
"Democracy and the Roots of
Consensus Rhetoric in Taiwan,” American
Journal of Chinese
Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Oct.
2010).
“Hsièn Kăi in Taiwan: Assessing P Possible Constitutional Models,” American Journal of Chinese
Studies,Vol. 14, No. 2 (October
2007): 153-165.
“Gladstone,
Religious Freedom, and Practical Reasoning,” History of Political Thought, Vol. 26,
No. 1 (April 2005): 90-119.
“Tradition
and Prudence in Locke's Exceptions to Toleration,” American Journal of Political Science,
Vol. 47, No. 2 (April 2003): 248-58.
"Attaining
Rogers Smith's Civic Ideals,” Political
Theory, Vol. 30, No. 3 (June 2002): 357-83.
"Countering
Popular Misconceptions of Federal Bureaucracies in American Government Classes,”
P.S.: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 32, No. 4 (December 1999): 743-7.
"The
Portrayal of Similarities in the Justification of Empire: G.A. Henty and Late
19th Century
Imperial Literature,” The McNeese
Review, Vol. 37 (1999): 14-42.
Book
Chapters
“Diplomacy
Between the Wars”. In George Esenwein,
ed., Europe Between
the Wars
(New York:
Gale/Cengage, forthcoming).
“Noam Chomsky and Chalmers Johnson:
Critical Views of American Foreign Policy”.
In
Lucia Chen, ed., Challenges to US Foreign
Policy in the 21st Century. Taipei: Tamkang
University
Press, 2014
"Political
Communication and the Study of Rhetoric: Persuasion from the Standpoint of
Literary
Theory and
Anthropology". In Mary Stuckey, ed., The Theory and Practice of Political
Communication Research (Albany,
NY: SUNY Press, 1996): 1-27.
Book Reviews
D. A. Bell and C. Li, eds.
The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy in Comparative
Perspective
and J. Chan, Confucian
Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Time, Perspectives in
Politics, Vol. 13,
No., 1 (March 2015)
Reviews for Choice: F. Dallmayr,
Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars; T. Metz, Untying the Knot:
Marriage,
the State and the Case for
Their Divorce; J. Fruchtman, The
Political Philosophy of Thomas Paine; A. Stilz, Liberal
Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation & the State; C. Nederman, Lineages
of European Political Thought: Explorations
along the Medieval/Modern
Divide from John of Salisbury to Hegel; J. Morrison, The Political
Philosophy of George
Washington; C.L. Ten,
ed., Mill’s On Liberty: A Critical Guide; J. Bernard, Why Machiavelli
Matters: A Guide to
Citizenship in a Democracy; V. Held, How Terrorism is Wrong;
C. Lavin, The Politics of Responsibility; S.
Lecce,
Against Perfectionism,;
N. Hirschmann, Gender,
Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory; K. Ferguson, William
James: Politics in the Pluriverse;
M. Shapiro, Deforming American Political
Thought: Ethnicity, Facticity, and Genre; C. Duncan
and T. Machan, Libertarianism: For and Against; P.
Steinberger, The Idea of the State; E. MacGilvray, Reconstructing
Public Reason.
B. L Brock, M. E. Huglen,
J. F Klumpp and S. Howell, Making Sense of
Political Ideology: The Power of Language in Democracy.
Political Studies
Review, Vol. 4, Issue 3 (September 2006)
A. Etzioni and A.
Bowditch, eds., Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? Political
Studies Review, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (May 2007).
J. M.
Choi and J. W. Murphy, The
Politics and Philosophy of Political Correctness. American Review of Politics (Fall 1994).
P. Schumacher, Critical Pluralism, Democratic Performance, & Community Power. The Midwest Political Science Journal
(Fall 1992).
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Grants and Honors
National Science Council, Republic of China, Teaching
and Research Grant, 2010-2012
Virginia
Wesleyan College, Batten Term Professorship, 2008-2010
Virginia Wesleyan College, Batten Professorship Development Funding,
2008-
2010
Ministry of Education, Republic of China Taiwan
Studies Faculty Research Fellowship,
NEH Summer Institute Participant Grant, 2007
Jamestown College, Various Bush Foundation Faculty
Development Grants 2003, 2006
US
Department of Education, Title VI
Language Fellowship (Russian), Yale University,
1984-5
University
of Arkansas, Harold D. Hantz Honors Award, 1984
University
of Arkansas, Henry M. Alexander Memorial Award in Political Science, 1984
Phi Beta
Phi, 1984
Phi Beta
Kappa, 1983
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Invited Talks
“Democracy in Taiwan and the Chinese Mainland,”, Rosenberg Center for East Asian Studies, Suffolk
University, February 3, 2014;
Center
for the Study of Asia, Boston University, February 4, 2014; Bridgewater State University, February
5, 2014; Massachusetts
Institute
of Technology, February 5, 2014; Suchow University, May 26, 2014; College of
William and Mary, Feb. 1, 2016
“Chinese Cultural Traditions and Taiwan’s Political
Culture,” Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott
School of International Affairs, The
George
Washington University, January 27, 2014
"Conceptions of democracy and political tasks in the
greater Chinese community," New York Press Club, September 11, 2013.
“China’s Search for Development and Democracy,” Richmond
University, September 5, 2013.
“Utopias and Dystopias in Western Thought,” Chinese
Cultural University, April 24, 2013.
“Reading Sun Yat-sen, Chiang
Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo in Comparative
Perspective,” National Sun Yat-sen University,
March
21, 2013
“Foreign
Policy Arguments Used by Activist, Non-Elite Americans,” North American
Institute, Tamkang University,
Taipei, Sept. 2011.
“American
Politics, Government and Foreign Policy,” Foreign Policy Institute, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, ROC, Taipei, Taiwan,
March
2011.
“The Origins, Nature and Prospects of the Tea Party,”
Institute for European and American Studies, Academia Sinica,
Taipei, Taiwan,
November
2010
“Non-Elite
Views of Foreign Policy in America,” International Doctoral Program in Asian
Studies, National Chengchi University, Taipei,
Taiwan,
January 5, 2010.
“US Views of China: Will China be a ‘Responsible Power?’”
MacArthur Center for Security Studies, Institute of International Relations,
National
Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 24,
2009.
“Challenges
of Taiwan’s Democratic Transition,” University of Houston at Clearlake,
Clearlake, TX, September 2007; St. Thomas
University,
San Antonio, TX, September 2007.
Conference Presentations
“Noam Chomsky and Chalmers Johnson: Critical Views of American Foreign
Policy,” Challenges to US Foreign Policy in the 21st
Century, Tamkang University, May 2014.
"Historical Conceptions of Democracy in Taiwan and
Observations on Contemporary Developments," American Political Science
Association Conference, August 30, 2013.
“A Foreign
Policy of Pretty Please: Mitt Romney’s Characterization of Obama’s Foreign
Policy,” Midwest Political Science Association
Meeting, Chicago, April 10, 2013
“Political Elites on
Taiwan’s Democracy,” American Association of Chinese Studies Annual Conference,
Fullerton, CA, October 2008.
“Chiang Ching-kuo on Democracy,” American
Association of Chinese Studies Meeting, Richmond, VA, October 2007.
“A Theory of
Political Storytelling,” Midwest Political Science Association Meeting,
Chicago, IL, April 2007.
“Chiang Kai-shek’s Democratic Rhetoric,” Western
Political Science Association Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, April 2006.
“Rawls on Justification,” Southwest Political Science Association
Meeting. March 2004.
“W.E. Gladstone on Church and State,” Southwest Political
Science Association Meeting April 2003.
“Locke and Justifications of the Mixture of State and
Religion in America 1740-1805,” Southwest Political Science Association
Meeting,
March 2002.
Roundtable Discussion: “Treatment of Bureaucracy in
Introductory Political Science
Classes: The Good, The Bad, and
the Ugly,” Southern Political Science Association Meeting, November 2000.
“Public Religion in
Anglo-American Political Arguments,” Southwest Political Science Association.
March 1999.
“Political
Conversations in a Contemporary Community: Margaret Thatcher on Trade Unions,”
Poster Session, American Political Science
Association, September 1998.
“‘Communitarian Naturalism’ and the History of Ideas:
Political Philosophy as a Conceptual Storehouse,” Northeast Political Science
Association, October 1993.
“Communitarian Argument,” Arkansas Political Science
Association, February 1993.
“Urban vs.
Rural Development: A Deep Policy Battle in Auroville,”
Communal Studies Association, October 1992.
Professional Service
Reviewing Activities: Journal
of Politics (2009, 2010, 2012), Political
Research Quarterly (2008, 2009, 2015), Pearson/Longman Publishing
(3 reviews,
2006), Roxbury Publishing (2006), Politics & Policy (2005), American Journal of Political Science
(2004), Political Theory (2001), PS: Political Science
and Politics
(1999)
Review Panels: External Grant Reader, Comprehensive
Program, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, US Department
of Education, June-July 2007, August
2010; Grant Reader, EU/US Atlantis Program, Fund for the Improvement of
Postsecondary
Education,
US Department of Education, June 2007, April 2010; External Grant Reader,
Hispanic Education, Fund for the
Improvement
of Postsecondary Education, US Department of Education, August 2009; Jacob Javits Fellowship Program (Public
Policy
and Public Administration), Washington, D.C. November 2006.;
Peer Review Panel, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation
Research
Abroad and Faculty Research Abroad (Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia),
December 2005, January 2009, June 2013.
Discussant, Midwest Political Science Association
Conference, 2013 (2), 2007; American Association for Chinese Studies, 2009;
American
Political
Science Association National Meeting, 2006; American Political Science
Association Conference on Teaching and Learning,
2005.
Panel Chair, Midwestern Political Science Association,
2013, Western Political Science Association Meeting, 2006; American Political
Science
Association
National Meeting, 2005, Southwest Political Science Association Meeting, 1994
Country Expert for Taiwan, Varieties of Democracy
Database on Democracy, 2012.
Public Lectures, “Political Consequences of the 2010
Census,” VWC and League of Women’s Voters of Norfolk, February 2010 (4 talks).
Moderator, North Dakota Public Employees Association
Legislative Candidate Forum, Jamestown, ND., 2004.