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Author Christoffersen, Gaye

Title Russia in the Indo-Pacific New Approaches to Russian Foreign Policy
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (298 p.)
Series Politics in Asia Ser
Politics in Asia Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Russian realism in Asia -- The Soviet-era legacy -- Explaining Russian foreign policy behavior -- Constructivism and Eurasianism -- Asian IR theory -- A Russian IR theory -- In this volume -- Triangular relations -- Foreign policy identities -- Russia's regional relations -- Domestic sources of foreign policy -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 1: China, Russia, and US: triangular relations
Chapter 1: China-Russia relations in times of crisis: A neoclassical realist explanation -- Analytical framework: neoclassical realism -- The pattern of China's and Russia's reactions -- China's reaction pattern to the Ukraine crisis -- Russia's reaction to the SCS dispute -- Systemic and unit-level factors in China's and Russia's reaction to the crises -- China's interests in the post-Soviet space and sensitivity to territorial disputes -- Russia's reorientation to Asia and interests in East and Southeast Asia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References
Chapter 2: Russia and the United States in Asia-Pacific: A Perspective of the English School -- The hegemonic US grand strategy -- The English School and Russia: an unlikely affinity -- State-Centrism -- The balance of power -- Concert of powers -- Nuclear weapons -- Culture and values -- Countering US hegemony in Asia-Pacific -- The North Korea nuclear problem and the US-China-Russia strategic triangle -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Russia, China, and the American Dilemma -- An evolving triangular game -- The American Dilemma -- Notes -- Part 2: Foreign policy identities
Chapter 4: Primordial rites or civic values?: Korean identity and its formation in the Russian Far East -- Introduction -- "Constructivism plus": primordial and constructed cultures -- Korean diaspora in the Russian Far East -- First Korean settlers in Primorskiy Province -- Sakhalin Koreans -- North Korean workers -- Korean diaspora in Primorskiy Province and its main cultural identifiers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources Cited -- Chapter 5: Strategic partnership or alliance?: Sino-Russian relations from a constructivist perspective 1 -- Identity in Wendt's constructivist theory
Identity in China's and Russia's perspectives on constructivist theory and the cultural formation of their foreign policy -- The development of a common identity as the foundation for the Sino-Russian strategic partnership -- Harmony and honor in China's and Russia's foreign policy -- China's "harmonious" way to solve disputes -- Russia's honor response to conflicts with others -- The differences in Sino-Russian identities and the impossibility of alliance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part 3: Russia's regional relations
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Chapter 6: The Sino-Russian partnership and the East Asian order
Subject Russia (Federation)-Foreign relations-Indo-Pacific Region
Indo-Pacific Region-Foreign relations-Russia (Federation)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000470215
1000470210