Abstract Focused on the “Belt and Road Initiative”, this book discusses China’s opportunities to translate economic leverage into political outcomes. The central question is how…
Country or Region: Russia
Abstract Countries that consume large amounts of energy have been coping with oil prices hovering around $110 per barrel since the beginning of 2011, as…
Abstract With the annexation of the Crimea and the engagement in confrontation with the West, Russia has embarked on a course of making the military…
Abstract We compare Russian nuclear energy diplomacy toward Finland and Hungary, where the Russian state corporation Rosatom intends to build nuclear power plants by the…
Continue reading Aalto, Pami, Heino Nyyssönen, Matti Kojo, and Pallavi Pal
Abstract The growth strategies of the two largest so-called independent Russian gas producers – Novatek and Rosneft – as well as developments in international markets…
Abstract Russian policy in Asia and in the Arctic share significantly overlapping elements. One such element is the precedent set when the UN awarded the…
Abstract The article focuses on Russia’s approach to international security in Northeast Asia. It argues that Russia’s unique position is that it is not a…
Continue reading Streltsov, Dmitry, Anna Kireeva, and Ilya Dyachkov
Abstract The strengthening Sino–Russian defense partnership has complicated ROK–U.S. military planning regarding North Korea, diverted U.S. and Japanese resources from concentrating against North Korea, and…
Abstract That Russia, a declining power, has emerged as the most assertive challenger to the US-led global order, while China, the most dynamic rising power,…
Abstract This article briefly examines the political and ideological aspects of Western countries’ post-Cold War approach to the world order. The Western triumph in the…
Abstract Since the successful conclusion of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in the early 1990s, regional trade agreements of various types, including bilateral free…
Abstract Shifting power balances on the Eurasian continent present both challenges and opportunities for further trilateral cooperation among Russia, India, and China (RIC). The call…
Summary Providing a comprehensive overview of Russia’s foreign policy directions, this handbook brings together an international team of scholars to develop a complex treatment of…
Summary Rise of the Revisionists: Russia, China, and Iran is a five-essay volume, edited by the American Enterprise Institute’s Gary J. Schmitt, that examines the…
Summary Who watches over the party-state? In this engaging analysis, Maria Repnikova reveals the webs of an uneasy partnership between critical journalists and the state…
