Summary The breakup of the USSR created a Central Asian security complex or sphere of influence consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Since…
Country or Region: Russia
Summary This is a groundbreaking analysis of China’s territorial disputes, exploring the successes and failures of negotiations that have taken place between its three neighbours,…
Abstract Since Moscow decided to host the APEC Summit in Vladivostok, Russian policymakers and scholars have argued that Russia should be a “Euro-Pacific power”. However,…
Summary This book is the first attempt to examine Japan’s relations with Russia from the perspective of national identity; providing a new interpretation of Japan’s…
Summary Chapters on China, Japan, Russia. Contributors ask whether it is more useful to conceive of the world as arrayed in regional, cultural, institutional complexes…
Summary On the morning after the Soviet Union’s collapse, millions of ethnic Russians living on the fringes of the former Russian Republic suddenly awakened to…
Summary Western social scientists can improve their understanding of post-Soviet Russia by studying the new discipline of Russian International Relations (IR). This collection introduces recent…
Continue reading Tsygankov, Andrei P., Andreas Umland, and Pavel A. Tsygankov
Abstract This article addresses the question of interaction between Western and “non-Western” international relations (IR) by analyzing liberal theory of IR that is emerging in…
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Summary Now fully updated and revised, this clear and comprehensive text explores the past thirty years of Soviet/Russian international relations, comparing foreign policy formation under…
Abstract Russia’s power resources have recovered significantly since the start of the twenty-first century and with that recovery the Kremlin has become more assertive in…
Abstract From Moscow’s perspective, Russian-Western relations are competitive but not antagonistic. Russia does not crave world domination, and its leaders do not dream of restoring…
Abstract Just 15 years after the Cold War’s end, hopes of integrating Russia into the West have been dashed, and the Kremlin has started creating…
Abstract As Russia’s economy has grown, so have the country’s global involvement and influence, which often take forms that the United States neither expects nor…
Continue reading Oliker, Olga, Keith Crane, and Lowell H. Schwartz
Abstract This article discusses the development of Soviet/Russian international relations (IR) studies starting from the end of Second World War until the present. It reveals…
Summary This report focuses on the structuration of new nationalist think tanks close to the Kremlin. For some years now, Russian leaders have refused to remain content…
