Jason Kuo  郭銘傑

郭銘傑是國立臺灣大學政治學系專任副教授，也是國立臺灣大學社會科學院國際長。他自國立臺灣大學獲得政治學（國際關係組）學士與碩士學位，並在美國加州大學聖地牙哥分校獲得政治學博士學位（專攻國際政治經濟學）。在返回國立臺灣大學任教前，郭博士曾在美國喬治城大學華許外交事務學院的莫塔拉國際研究中心擔任博士後研究員。在 2018 年至 2020 年間，他曾擔任臺灣政治學會財務長；在 2021 至 2024 年間，他也擔任國立臺灣大學政治學系系友聯誼會總幹事；2023-2025年間，他還擔任《政治科學論叢》的執行編輯 。郭博士目前擔任財團法人台灣網路資訊中心國際事務委員，台灣網路治理論壇多方利害關係人指導小組主席。

郭博士的研究領域包括國際政治經濟學、政治心理學、全球民主研究、公眾外交、數位治理、中國崛起、實驗研究方法。他的實質研究聚焦中國崛起在不同議題上的政治經濟分析，包括（但不限於）南海的領海爭端如何影響中國在區域內的軟實力、大流行期間台灣民眾接種中國大陸製與台灣國產新冠肺炎疫苗的意願，還有強制外交與戰爭風險。郭博士的研究已經發表於國內外政治學、區域研究與跨領域社會科學的一些頂級學術期刊上，包括《社會科學與醫學》、《當代中國研究》、《日本政治科學論叢》、《中國國際政治論叢》《政治科學論叢》、《台灣政治學刊》與《遠景季刊》。在國立臺灣大學內，郭博士參與到跨領域的研究活動，包括社會科學院的胡佛東亞民主研究中心、臺灣社會韌性研究中心，臺大醫學院防疫科學研究中心。他於 2025 年獲得國立臺灣大學學術勵進獎。

郭博士承諾透過研究引導教學創新來給予學生高品質的學習體驗。自 2021 年起，他連續兩次獲得國立臺灣大學教學優良獎。在 2022 年，他也榮獲得教育部教學實踐研究計畫社會（含法政）學門績優計畫，是首位獲得此殊榮的政治學者。在 2024 年，他因指導學生獲大專學生研究創作獎而獲國家科學與技術委員會頒發指導有方獎。 2025 年起，他致力推動臺大社科院與美國德州農工大學布希政府與公共服務學院的「臺灣最有價值夥伴」倡議，將臺灣與美國雙邊的教育夥伴關係從科學、計畫、工程與數學領域延伸至國際事務與社會科學領域，促進未來公共事務領袖的交流與培育。 

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. In 2022, he was the first political scientist receiving the Teaching Practice Research Project Excellence Award in the Division of Society (Law & Politics) from the Ministry of Education. In 2024, he received the Best Mentor Award from the National Science and Technology Council for advising student to win the nation-wide College Student Research Creativity Award. Since 2025, he has been dedicated to advancing the “Taiwan as the Most Valuable Partner (Taiwan MVP)” initiative between National Taiwan University’s College of Social Sciences and the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. This initiative expands the bilateral Taiwan–U.S. educational partnership from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields into international affairs and the social sciences, fostering exchanges and the cultivation of future public service leaders.