1st Edition
Russian Policy towards China and Japan The El'tsin and Putin Periods
1. Introduction 2. Russian Policy Towards China under El’tsin: Political, Military and Economic Relations 3. Russian Policy Towards China under El’tsin: Redefining the Joint Border 4. Russian Policy Towards China: The Broader Context 5. Russian Policy Towards Japan under El’tsin: Bilateral Relations, Hostage to the Territorial Dispute 6. Russia and Japan: Problems of International Cooperation 7. Russian Policy Towards China under Putin 8. Russian Policy Towards Japan under Putin 9. Conclusions
Biography
Natasha Kuhrt lectures on the International Peace and Security Master’s Programme at King’s College, London. She holds a doctorate in Russian foreign policy from University College, London and is the author of a chapter on Russian policy towards China and Japan under Putin to be published in a forthcoming volume on Russian foreign policy edited by Marie Mendras.
'It is a valuable addition to Russian foreign-policy analysis, especially for its use of comparison between policies towards China and Japan in order to explain different trends in Russian thinking about its own identity in the turbulent period of the last two decades.' -University of Birmingham STEPHEN ARIS, Europe-Asia Studies
'Kuhrt's integration of the larger international context into her analysis of the Russo-Japanese dispute represents a welcome advance in our understanding of the problem' - Margarita Karnysheva, The Russian Review 69 (January 2010)
