Imperial Decline - Russia's Changing Role in Asia

"The essays in "Imperial Decline" cover significant new ground regarding a topic that is certain to grow in importance in the coming months and years."--Ross H. Munro, Foreign Policy Research Institute

List of contents

Preface 1

What is Asia to Russia? 5

Russia and the Asia-Pacific Region: Politics and Polemics / Ole M. Smolansky 7

Russian and China in Central Asia / Stephen J. Blank 40

Russian and China 63

Russia Looks at China / Stephen J. Blank 65

Russian Foreign Policy in the Chinese Context / Bruce A. Elleman 99

Russia and Japan 127

Russo-Japanese Relations: Implications for Northeast Asian Security / Rajan Menon 129

The Korean Peninsula 153

Russia's Relations with North Korea / Alvin Z. Rubenstein 155

The Russian Federation and South Korea / Honghchan Chun and Charles E. Ziegler 185

Russia and the United States 211

Implications for the United States of Russia's Far East Policy / Harry Gelman 213

U.S.-Russian Relations in East Asia: A View from Moscow / Henry Trofimenko 244

Conclusion 272

Index 285

Contributors 295

About the author

Stephen J. Blank is MacArthur Professor of Research, U.S. Army War College. Alvin Z. Rubinstein is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Product details

• Authors: Blank, Stephen J. Blank, Steven J. Blank
• Assisted by: Stephen Blank (Editor), Stephen J. Blank (Editor), Alvin Z. Rubenstein (Editor), Alvin Z Rubinstein (Editor), Alvin Z. Rubinstein (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.1997
• EAN: 9780822318972
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1897-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 503 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Internationale Beziehungen, Asien, Russland, UdSSR, Sowjetunion, Kolonialismus und Imperialismus