台湾半导体产业向大陆的迁移和影响.pdf

Controlling the Uncontrollable: 1 The Migration of the Taiwanese Semiconductor Industry to China and Its Security Implications Monique Ming-chin Chu PhD Candidate, Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge mcc23@cam.ac.uk Third Annual Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies 30-31 March 2006, PARIS2 (Please do not quote nor cite the draft paper without the consent of the author.) 1. Introduction This paper reports preliminary findings of a case study that explores the relationship between economic globalization and national security. It examines globalization-security linkage by focusing on the strategic aspects of the migration of the chip industry from Taiwan to China as part of the globalization story. To begin with, the wave of globalization has shaped the way we think about security in terms of its agency and scope. The extensive scope and agency of security threats extending beyond the military and the state have motivated some scholars to call for a wide and multi-sectored agenda for security studies. They are said to have adopted the so-called “widener’s approach to security” (Buzan, Waver and Wilde; Ullman; Nye and Lynn-Jones).3 In addition, given the fluid nature of the notion of security (Wolfers; Friedberg; Allison and Treverton; Nye), Barry Buzan has called for a precise definition of security directed towards specific case studies: “Attempts at precise definition are much more suitably directed towards empirical cases where the pa