Bo-jiun Jing

Dr. Jing Bo-jiun 荊柏鈞 is an Associated Research Fellow at ISDP’s Asia Program and Stockholm China Center. He was also the Head of the Taiwan Studies Project at ISDP. Dr. Jing is a member of the Chatham House-Korea Foundation Next Generation Policy Expert Network and a founder of ASEAN Plus Journal (南洋誌) in Taiwan. His research focuses on Taiwan’s foreign policy towards Southeast Asia, U.S.-China-Taiwan relations, and the international relations of the Indo-Pacific. 

His articles on Taiwan-Southeast Asia relations, the EU’s Indo-Pacific strategy, Taiwan’s cybersecurity policy, and cross-Strait relations have been published in various outlets, including the National Bureau of Asian Research’s Brief Series, the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, the Stimson Center’s Taiwan Security Brief, Wenti Yu Yanjiu (問題與研究), East Asia Forum, The Diplomat, The Straits Times, and The Bangkok Post. Dr. Jing is also the author of the monograph Taiwan and Southeast Asia: Opportunities and Constraints of Continued Engagement (University of Maryland School of Law, 2016). 

Previously, Dr. Jing worked as a Research Associate at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and as an Associate Researcher at the Mainland Affairs Council in Taiwan. He holds a Ph.D. in International Political Economy from King’s College London, an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from National Taiwan University.