This volume on Russia is the first in a series on strategic thinking in Asia. It examines four periods since the 1980s and covers views of China, Japan, the Korean peninsula, Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and regionalism. With an emphasis on Northeast Asia the geographical chapters provide an in-depth look at how foreign policy toward separate areas was guided. The overview compares how strategic thinking evolved, while reflecting on factors that shaped it. The book explains the Putin era's ambivalent approach to Asia and finds lessons from earlier approaches worthy of further attention.
Author(s): Gilbert Rozman, Kazuhiko Togo, Joseph P. Ferguson
Edition: First Edition
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 272
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
1 Overview......Page 10
Part 1 Chronology......Page 44
2 Soviet Policy toward the Asia–Pacific Region: The 1980s......Page 46
3 Russia's Strategic Thought toward Asia: The Early Yeltsin Years (1991–95)......Page 66
4 Russian Strategic Thinking toward Asia, 1996–99......Page 84
5 Russia's Asia Policy under Vladimir Putin, 2000–5......Page 120
Part 2 Geography......Page 146
6 The Russian Approach to China under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin......Page 148
7 The Policy of Russia toward Japan 1992–2005......Page 176
8 Russian Strategic Thinking toward North and South Korea......Page 196
9 Russian Strategic Thinking toward Central, South, and Southeast Asia......Page 214
10 Russian Strategic Thinking on Asian Regionalism......Page 238
Contributors......Page 264
B......Page 266
E......Page 267
J......Page 268
N......Page 269
S......Page 270
T......Page 271
Z......Page 272
