Rapprochement or Rivalry: Russia-China Relations in a Changing Asia - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870031252 ISBN 13: 9780870031250

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 1998

Synopsis

The emerging relationship between China and Russia is perhaps the most important force redefining international relations in post-Cold War Asia. In the past five years, Russia and China have built a ""strategic partnership aimed at the 21st century,"" a development that deeply worries some Western observers and puzzles others.
In this first comprehensive study of Russian-Chinese relations, Sherman Garnett and a team of 15 U.S., Russian, and Chinese scholars analyze the most important issues posed by the relationship, including cross-border trade, the impact of Russia's center-periphery politics, migration, arms sales, and (mis)perceptions of one another. The book assesses what will be one of the most important relationships, economically and strategically, in the dynamic region stretching from Central Asia to the Far East. It also weighs the prospects for real cooperation between Russia, a severely weakened power, and China, a power on the rise.
Contributing authors include Stephen Blank, Sherman Garnett, Vilya Gel'bras, Harry Gelman, Li Jingjie, Michael McFaul, Lu Nanquan, Martha Olcott, Gilbert Rozman, Judith Thornton, Dmitri Trenin, Tamara Troyakova, Galina Vitkovskaya, Alexei Voskressenski, Elizabeth Wishnick, and Zhanna Zayonchkovskaya.

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About the Author

Sherman W. Garnett is the Dean of James Madison College, Michigan State University, USA. Formerly, Garnett was Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870031252
• ISBN 13: 9780870031250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 438
• Editor: Garnett Sherman W.