Russia as an Aspiring Great Power in East Asia Perceptions and Policies from Yeltsin to Putin

by Rangsimaporn, Paradorn

• ISBN13: 9780230210110
• ISBN10: 0230210112
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Rangsimaporn#xA0;argues that Russia aspires to become a great power and tries to achieve this through utilizing its position as a Eurasian country, with vast territories in East Asia, its economic assets, primarily arms and energy, and careful management of its role in a multipolar East Asia with a complex balance of power.

Author Biography

PARADORN RANGSIMAPORN is a Diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand, Thailand. He completed his doctorate degree in International Relations at St. Antonys College, University of Oxford, UK. He has published articles in Asian Survey and Europe-Asia Studies.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. ix
List of Tables	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Research aims	p. 1
Elite perceptions and Russian foreign policy	p. 2
Terminology	p. 5
Data and methodology	p. 7
Chapter outline	p. 9
Actors in Russia's East Asia Policymaking	p. 11
Defining and characterising actors	p. 11
Central actors	p. 13
Sectoral actors	p. 17
The political elite	p. 19
Specialists	p. 20
The Russian Far East elite	p. 21
Continuities and Evolution in Russian Perceptions of East Asia	p. 23
The Eurasianist perspective	p. 23
The Economic perspective	p. 29
The Multipolarity perspective	p. 35
Russia as a 'Great Power'-the unifying theme	p. 40
The Many Faces of Eurasianism	p. 42
Russia's 'Turn to the East' and a balanced foreign policy	p. 44
Geopolitics and the Neo-Eurasianist movement	p. 49
The 'Intercivilisational' interpretation of Eurasianism	p. 53
Critical views and the 'End of Eurasia'	p. 56
Conclusion: Rationalising Russia's great-power status	p. 58
Economic Integrationist Aim and Projecting Influence	p. 60
Economic integration: Russia's place in the East Asian sun?	p. 61
Energy interdependence: The locomotive for Russia's integration?	p. 79
Arming East Asia: Russia's economic gains or strategic liability?	p. 89
Conclusion: The realisation of Russian influence and great-power ambitions	p. 99
Multipolariry and the East Asian Balance of Power	p. 101
Multipolarity and Russian foreign policy	p. 102
Managing a multipolar East Asia	p. 108
Russian views of an East Asian regional security system	p. 122
Conclusion: Reasserting Russia's derzhavnost'	p. 128
Case Studies	p. 130
The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF)	p. 130
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)	p. 134
Russia as a Eurasian landbridge	p. 139
Russia's oil pipeline routes to East Asia	p. 144
Conclusion	p. 152
The beginnings of a Russian East Asia discourse	p. 152
The perceptual components of the discourse	p. 154
The convergence of perceptions from Yeltsin to Putin	p. 155
Three perspectives in search of a great-power role	p. 156
Notes	p. 159
Bibliography	p. 218
Index	p. 250
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