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Russian Policy towards China and Japan - The El'tsin and Putin Periods (Hardcover)
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Russian Policy towards China and Japan - The El'tsin and Putin Periods (Hardcover)
Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
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Drawing on the most up-to-date sources, this book provides an
in-depth examination of Russia's relations with China and Japan,
the two Asia-Pacific superpowers-in-waiting. For Russia there has
always been more than one 'Asia': after the collapse of the Soviet
Union, there were those in the Russian elite who saw Asia as
implying the economic dynamism of the Asia-Pacific, with Japan as
the main player. However there were others who saw the chance for
Russia to reassert its claim to be a great power, based on Russia's
geopolitical and geoeconomic position as a Eurasian power. For
these, China was the power to engage with: together China and
Russia could control both Heartland and Rim, both Eurasia and
Asia-Pacific, whereas accepting Japan's conception of Asia implied
regional fragmentation and shared sovereignty. This book argues
that this strand of thinking, mainly confined to nationalists in
the El'tsin years, has now, under Putin, become the dominant
discourse among Russian policymakers. Despite opportunities for
convergence presented by energy resources, even for trilateral
cooperation, traditional anxiety regarding loss of control over key
resource areas in the Russian Far East is now used to inform
regional policy, leading to a new resource nationalism. In light of
Russia's new assertiveness in global affairs and its increasing use
of the so-called 'energy weapon' in foreign policy, this book will
appeal not only to specialists on Russian politics and foreign
policy, but also to international relations scholars.
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