Zeng Ee Liew
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My research project
Understanding the Diplomatic Agency of Non-Sovereign Entities: A Comparative Study of the Pro-democracy Movement in Hong Kong and TaiwanThis research projects seeks to understand how “non-sovereign” entities such as pro-democracy movements display diplomatic agency. It examines how these pro-democracy movements are able to exercise diplomatic agency to persuade foreign governments to support their cause, and whether this diplomatic agency played a role in either the success or the failure of the movements. By presenting a new way into understanding pro-democracy social movements, it seeks to explore how these pro-democracy movements, through their ability to exercise diplomatic agency, evolved into expressions of self-determination and ultimately sovereign identity, allowing them to interact with sovereign entities. It will utilise the comparative study of the pro-democracy social movements in Hong Kong and Taiwan and adopt a multi-pronged methodology of practice tracing and discourse analysis.
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This research projects seeks to understand how “non-sovereign” entities such as pro-democracy movements display diplomatic agency. It examines how these pro-democracy movements are able to exercise diplomatic agency to persuade foreign governments to support their cause, and whether this diplomatic agency played a role in either the success or the failure of the movements. By presenting a new way into understanding pro-democracy social movements, it seeks to explore how these pro-democracy movements, through their ability to exercise diplomatic agency, evolved into expressions of self-determination and ultimately sovereign identity, allowing them to interact with sovereign entities. It will utilise the comparative study of the pro-democracy social movements in Hong Kong and Taiwan and adopt a multi-pronged methodology of practice tracing and discourse analysis.