1st Edition

Russia in the Indo-Pacific New Approaches to Russian Foreign Policy

Edited By Gaye Christoffersen Copyright 2022
298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

This volume zones in on Russia’s relations with the Indo-Pacific region through the lens of theoretical pluralism, presenting alternatives to the mainstream Realist view of Russia as a major power using geopolitical strategies to establish itself. Russia in the Indo-Pacific is an understudied topic that needs a fresh perspective. Contributors to this volume are based across Russia, China,... Read more

Part 1: China, Russia and US: Triangular Relations

1. China-Russia Relations in Times of Crisis: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation

Alexander Korolev and Vladimir Portyakov

2. Russia and the United States in the Asia Pacific: A Perspective of the English School

Artyom Lukin

3. The ‘Strategic Triangle’ Revisited

Lowell Dittmer

Part 2: Foreign Policy Identities

4. Primordial Rites or Civic Values? Korean Identity and Its Formation in the Russian Far East

Elena F. Tracy and Tamara Troyakova

5. Strategic Partnership or Alliance? Sino-Russian Relations from a Constructivist Perspective

Ying Liu

Part 3: Russia’s Regional Relations

6. The Sino-Russian Partnership and the East Asian Order

Elizabeth Wishnick

7. The Vestige of History and "Cold Peace" between Russia and Japan

Tsuneo Akaha

8. Sino-Russian Accommodation and Adaptation in Eurasian Regional Order Formation

Gaye Christoffersen

9. Russia and Southeast Asia: The Road Less Traveled

Amanda Huan and Pushpa Thambipillai

Part 4: Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy

10. The Significance of Russia to China: Research Methods in Russian-Soviet Union Studies in China

Feng Yujun

11. Russian methodological and theoretical approaches to the analysis of Sino-Russian relations in 1990s-2010s

Elizaveta Priupolina

Biography

Gaye Christoffersen is Professor of International Politics, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, Nanjing Center, Nanjing University. Recent publications include "Sino-Russian Local Relations: Heihe and Blagoveshchensk," Asan Forum, (2019); "Chinese, Russian, Japanese, and Korean Strategies for Northeast Asian Cross-Border Energy Connectivity," Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies Journal (2019); "Northeast China and the Russian Far East: Positive Scenarios and Negative Scenarios," in International Relations and Asia’s Northern Tier: Sino-Russia Relations, North Korea, and Mongolia.