Russia as an Aspiring Great Power in East Asia: Perceptions and Policies from Yeltsin to Putin (St. Antony's Series)

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 8
List of Maps......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 13
1.1 Research aims......Page 16
1.2 Elite perceptions and Russian foreign policy......Page 17
1.3 Terminology......Page 20
1.4 Data and methodology......Page 22
1.5 Chapter outline......Page 24
2.1 Defining and characterising actors......Page 26
2.2 Central actors......Page 28
2.3 Sectoral actors......Page 32
2.4 The political elite......Page 34
2.5 Specialists......Page 35
2.6 The Russian Far East elite......Page 36
3.1 The Eurasianist perspective......Page 38
3.2 The Economic perspective......Page 44
3.3 The Multipolarity perspective......Page 50
3.4 Russia as a \'Great Power\' – the unifying theme......Page 55
4 The Many Faces of Eurasianism......Page 57
4.1 Russia\'s \'Turn to the East\' and a balanced foreign policy......Page 59
4.2 Geopolitics and the Neo-Eurasianist movement......Page 64
4.3 The \'Intercivilisational\' interpretation of Eurasianism......Page 68
4.4 Critical views and the \'End of Eurasia\'......Page 71
4.5 Conclusion: Rationalising Russia\'s great-power status......Page 73
5 Economic Integrationist Aim and Projecting Influence......Page 75
5.1 Economic integration: Russia\'s place in the East Asian sun?......Page 76
5.2 Energy interdependence: The locomotive for Russia\'s integration?......Page 94
5.3 Arming East Asia: Russia\'s economic gains or strategic liability?......Page 104
5.4 Conclusion: The realisation of Russian influence and great-power ambitions......Page 114
6 Multipolarity and the East Asian Balance of Power......Page 116
6.1 Multipolarity and Russian foreign policy......Page 117
6.2 Managing a multipolar East Asia......Page 123
6.3 Russian views of an East Asian regional security system......Page 137
6.4 Conclusion: Reasserting Russia\'s derzhavnost\'......Page 143
7.1 The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF)......Page 145
7.2 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)......Page 149
7.3 Russia as a Eurasian landbridge......Page 154
7.4 Russia\'s oil pipeline routes to East Asia......Page 159
8.1 The beginnings of a Russian East Asia discourse......Page 167
8.2 The perceptual components of the discourse......Page 169
8.3 The convergence of perceptions from Yeltsin to Putin......Page 170
8.4 Three perspectives in search of a great-power role......Page 171
Notes......Page 174
Bibliography......Page 233
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