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Date Service 08/2025 Peer-review for Taylor & Francis Books 06/2025 Thesis-supervision: Sam Weng Kei P. Celajes, MA – "Navigating Contested Statehood and Transnational Crime Prevention: Taiwan’s Solutions and Challenges as a Non-Member of INTERPOL" 06/2025 Thesis-supervision: Alexandre Bourg, MA – "The Normative Influence of the European Union in Shaping the Sustainable Development Preferences of its New Member States" 06/2025 Thesis-supervision: Melissa Kelly-Ann Donya Frederick, MA – "The UN’s Role in Addressing Criminal Responsibility of Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone" 06/2024 Thesis-supervision: Letsiwe Zothile Simelane, MA – "Factors Contributing to Success in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control in the Case of Eswatini" 06/2024 Thesis-supervision: Javier Enrique Sanchez Navas, MA – "Approaches to Peaceful Resolution of Protracted Civil Wars: A Comparison of Communist Guerrillas in Guatemala and the Philippines" 06/2024 Thesis-supervision: Julien Claude Pierre Voignier, MA – "Great Power Interplay in International Security Organizations: in the Case of U.S. and China’s Strategic Moves toward Membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group" 06/2024 Thesis-supervision: Corey Novoa, MA – "Conditions for Instability in Sudan, Syria, and Ukraine Amid Great Power Competition" 06/2024 Thesis-review: Dana Duda, MA – "Comparative Analysis of the Russian World and the Chinese Dream Political Discourse" 06/2023 Thesis-supervision: Nathan Keruul Salvador, MA – "Media Content Analysis: Research into United States’ House Speakers Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi visit to Taiwan" 06/2023 Thesis-supervision: Judel Victor Arugay, MA – "Conditions for Peace: a Study of the Communist Insurgency in the Philippines and the Lessons Learned in the Colombian Peace Process" 06/2023 Thesis-review: Elisa Lenker Andrade, MA – "How State Nationalism Evolves: a Comparative Study of Contemporary China and USA (2012-2022)" 06/2022 Thesis-supervision: Tarif W. Brown, MA – "Examining the Role of International Institutions on Influencing Identity in the Western Sahara Conflict" 06/2022 Thesis-supervision: Jonathan M. Parker, MA – "China’s Actions in the South China Sea: Why Does the US Care?" 06/2022 Thesis-review: Tyler Freese, MA – "Measuring the Effectiveness of the Treaty Era" 01/2022 Thesis-supervision: Harrison A. Cooke, MA – "Policy Response Models to Securitized Health Threats: a Case Study of India and Taiwan during COVID-19" 06/2021 Thesis-supervision: Khemanit Supakdee, MA – "Factors Affecting Migrant Workers Choice of a Host Country: A Case Study of Thai Workers in Taiwan" 06/2021 Thesis-supervision: Maria Valderrama, MA – "An Inquiry into the Influencing Factors of Poverty in the Philippines" 03/2024 Peer-review for Geopolitics 06/2023 Peer-review for Athens Journal of Social Sciences

July 29, 292940 · 2 min · 393 words · Yavor A Kostadinov

Panel Chair

ISA–CEEISA 2024 Date Occasion 06/2024 Panel "Theories of alliance formation", 17-21 June, Joint International Studies Association ISA-CEEISA conference, Rijeka, Croatia 03/2023 Panel "Taiwan and the Changing World: Before and After the Pandemic". Mar 10, workshop in a joint initiative by IMAS, National Cheng-Chi and GSIA/IAD, Ming Chuan universities

August 27, 272741 · 1 min · 48 words · Yavor A Kostadinov

Commentator

Date Occasion 04/2025 The annual conference of International Affair’s Master’s/ Diplomacy Bachelor’s Programs. April 12, Ming Chuan University 11/2024 The Taiwan Political Science Association Annual Meeting and International Academic Symposium, Nov 24, host Tamkang University 04/2024 The annual conference of International Affair’s Master’s/ Diplomacy Bachelor’s Programs. April 27, Ming Chuan University 10/2023 AI Impact in International Law, the 8th International Conference on Ocean Law & Policy, October 13, National Taiwan Ocean University 04/2023 The annual conference of International Affair’s Master’s/ Diplomacy Bachelor’s Programs. April 22, Ming Chuan University 04/2022 The annual conference of International Affair’s Master’s/ Diplomacy Bachelor’s Programs. April 09, Ming Chuan University 03/2021 The annual conference of International Affair’s Master’s/ Diplomacy Bachelor’s Programs. March 27, Ming Chuan University

August 27, 272722 · 1 min · 120 words · Yavor A Kostadinov

Faculty Community Roles

Teacher at EMI Faculty Workshops Date Occasion 03/2024 - present EMI Teacher Community Mentor, EMI Centre, MCU 09/2023 - 02/2024 Faculty Professional Development Committee Member, EMI Centre, MCU

August 27, 27270 · 1 min · 28 words · Yavor A Kostadinov

Organizer

Roundtable Date Service/Project 06 - 10/2023 Lead Organizer for the EMI Instructor Community of Practice focus groups, invited talks and roundtable, funded by NTNU 07/2023 Co-organizer for EVIP 2023, International Elite Leadership Program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, (Taiwan) 06/2023 Co-organizer for MOSAIC 2023, International Elite Leadership Program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, (Taiwan)

August 27, 27272 · 1 min · 56 words · Yavor A Kostadinov