This book examines how recent fundamental changes influence Sino-Russian relations and the wider long-term implications of the revolving Sino-Russian dynamic on international affairs. It brings together leading scholars to examine recent developments across the whole relationship - from grand strategy and global governance, to bilateral energy and military ties, and regional interaction in Central Asia, Northeast Asia, and the Middle East. The Sino-Russian relationship boasts major achievements, but also reveals important differences and latent tensions. The project is intended for policy-makers, academics and students of strategic studies, diplomacy studies, Chinese politics, Russian politics and foreign policy.
This book examines how recent fundamental changes influence Sino-Russian relations and the wider long-term implications of the revolving Sino-Russian dynamic on international affairs. It brings together leading scholars to examine recent developments across the whole relationship – from grand strategy and global governance, to bilateral energy and military ties, and regional interaction in Central Asia, Northeast Asia, and the Middle East. The Sino-Russian relationship boasts major achievements, but also reveals important differences and latent tensions. The project is intended for policy-makers, academics and students of strategic studies, diplomacy studies, Chinese politics, Russian politics and foreign policy.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Bobo Lo
Part I Grand strategies
Chapter 2 The Indispensable Partner: Russia in China’s Grand Strategy
Mingjiang Li and Angela Poh
Chapter 3 Unwanted but Inevitable: Russia’s Deepening Partnership with China post-Ukraine
Alexander Gabuev
Part II Bilateral and regional developments
Chapter 4 Explaining the Emerging Sino-Russian Energy Partnership
Morena Skalamera
Chapter 5 The Military Dimension in Sino-Russian Relations
Paul N. Schwartz
Chapter 6 Tending the Eurasian Garden: Russia, China and the Dynamics of Regional Integration and Order
Alexander Cooley
Chapter 7 China, Russia and the Great Power Contest in the Middle East
Jo Inge Bekkevold
Chapter 8 The Arctic Dimension in Sino-Russian Relations
Christopher Weidacher Hsiung and Tom Røseth
Part III China, Russia and the world
Chapter 9 From Global Governance to Global Disorder? Implications for Russia and China
Yu Bin
Chapter 10 Triangularism old and new: China, Russia, and the United States
Stephen Blank
Chapter 11 The Japan-China-Russia triangle and security in North East Asia
Bjørn Grønning
Chapter 12 Whom to call? In search of a European policy on China and Russia
Robin Allers
Part IV The future of Sino-Russian 'strategic partnership'
Chapter 13 Conclusion: Sino-Russian Relations in the 21st Century
Jo Inge Bekkevold