Jason Kuo is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Associate Dean for International Affairs in the College of Social Sciences at National Taiwan University. He received his PhD in Political Science (with a focus area on International Political Economy) from the University of California, San Diego, and both a BA and an MA in Political Science (International Relations Division) from National Taiwan University. Prior to joining the faculty of National Taiwan University, Dr. Kuo was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Mortara Center for International Studies at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. He served as the Treasurer of the Taiwanese Political Science Association from 2018 to 2020, the Executive Secretary of the National Taiwan University Political Science Alumni Association from 2021 to 2024, and the Executive Editor of the Taiwanese Journal of Political Science from 2023 to 2025. Currently, Dr. Kuo also serves as International Affairs Commissioner for Taiwan Network Information Centre, and the Chair of the Multistakeholder Steering Group for Taiwan Internet Governance Forum.
Dr. Kuo's fields of research include international political economy, political psychology, global democratic study, public diplomacy, internet governance, China's rise, and experimental methods. Substantively, he has worked on the political economy of China's rise across a wide range of issues, including (but not limited to) impacts of the maritime territorial disputes over the South China Sea on China's soft power in East Asia, the public willingness to receive the Chinese and domestically produced COVID-19 vaccine in Taiwan during the global pandemic, as well as coercive diplomacy and risk of war. His research has appeared in some leading international and domestic journals in political science, area studies, and interdisciplinary social sciences, such as Social Sciences & Medicine, Journal of Contemporary China, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Chinese Journal of International Politics, Taiwanese Journal of Political Science, Taiwanese Political Science Review, and Prospect Quarterly. At National Taiwan University, Dr. Kuo is affiliated with not only the Hu Fu Center for East Asian Democratic Studies and Taiwan Social Resilience Research Center in the College of Social Sciences, but also the Research Center for Epidemic Prevention Science in the College of Medicine to engage in interdisciplinary research. In 2025, he received the Academic Advancement Award from National Taiwan University.
Dr. Kuo is committed to providing students quality learning experience through research-informed teaching innovations. He is the recipient of the University's Teaching Excellence Award twice in a row since 2021, and the Teaching Practice Research Project Excellence Award in the Division of Society (Law & Politics) from the Ministry of Education in 2022. In 2024, he received the Best Mentor Award from the National Science and Technology Council.