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Strategic Partnerships in Asia Balancing without alliances
This book examines the nature and implications of the increasing interaction among three secondary powers in the world: China, Russia and India. It provides an in-depth analysis of the complex and often contradictory goals underlying their emerging strategic partnerships along with an assessment of the role these partnerships play in the larger regional and global contexts. In particular, it focuses on the important region of Asia/Eurasia, where these countries seek to increase their influence and compete against the prominence of the United States.
Breaking new ground in looking at the ways in which the triad of bilateral strategic partnerships affect the countries’ individual aspirations for power, status and wealth, this book argues that their attempt to develop codified, formal bilateral partnerships and trilateral ties that seek to neither antagonise nor fully embrace each other is both a challenge to peace and security and an opportunity for cooperation. It concludes by suggesting scenarios under which competitive or cooperative economic and security orders may emerge.
Clearly written and thoroughly accessible, this book will be an informative text for courses on international relations, international security, foreign policy and Asian and Russian politics.
1. Unipolarity and its Implications for Asian/Eurasian Security 2. Strategic Partnerships in Asia and Eurasia 3. The Sino-Russian Partnership 4. The Indo-Russian Partnership 5. The Sino-Indian Partnership 6. Geopolitics or Geoeconomics: Will Competition Derail Cooperation? 7. Prospects for Multilateralism in Asia/Eurasia 8. What Does the Future Hold?
Biography
Vidya Nadkarni is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of San Diego, US. Her research interests focus on the foreign policies of India, Russia and the US.
"Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate and research collections." - H. Nelsen, CHOICE (December 2010)
"The purpose of this admirably researched book is to assess the prospects for regional-level cooperation between China, India and Russia, primarily by examining the three sets of bilateral relations. Diplomacy in each of those sets has resulted in “strategic partnerships,” but the realities of partnership are at the heart of Nadkarni’s study...This quite comprehensive treatment of three of the so-called BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China), omitting only Brazil, appropriately recognizes the fluidity of international relations in Asia and therefore does not come to firm conclusions about where Russia-China, China-India or Russia-India relations are headed. But the author provides the wealth of detail necessary for specialists and students alike to make their own assessment." - Mel Gurtov, Pacific Affairs: Volume 84, No. 3 – September 2011
