Moscow's retreat and Beijing's rise as regional great power

Problems of Post-Communism

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 17-31

  Merry, E Wayne ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037837095     PISSN: 10758216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2003.11656036     Document Type: Review

References (37)

1. Interfax (December 26, 2000).
2. Available at antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_ dmsp_big.jpg.
3. Interview in Rossiiskaia gazeta (January 9, 2002).
4. Galina Vitkovskaya, Zhanna Zayonchkovskaya, and Kathleen Newland, "Chinese Migration into Russia," in Rapprochement or Rivalry? Russia-China Relations in a Changing Asia, ed. Sherman Garnett (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000); interview with Federal Migration Service Chief Andrei Chernenko, Interfax (June 13, 2002).
5. Graeme P. Herd, "The Foreign and Security Policy Implications of Russia's Demographic Crisis," Working Paper 20, Center for Security Studies, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich, June 2002) (available at www.fsk.ethz.ch/documents/WorkingPapers/wp20.pdf).
6. Author interviews.
7. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD Economic Surveys, 2000-2001 (Paris: OECD, 2001).
8. For good maps showing these developments, see Martin Gilbert's Atlas of Russian History (New York: Dorset Press, 1972, 1985).
9. For a detailed historical exposition, see Al Santoli, "Empires of the Steppe: Russia and China from Antiquity to 1912," American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC, 2002.
10. See the chapter on China in Field Marshal Lord Carver's Twentieth Century Warriors (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987).
11. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, China in the World Economy: The Domestic Policy Challenges (Paris: OECD, 2002).
12. For a good overview of the literature, see Alexander Lukin, "Russia's Image of China and Russian-Chinese Relations," East Asia 17, no. 1 (spring 1999): 5-40.
13. Interview in ITAR-TASS (June 3, 2002).
14. Interview in pravda.ru (February 4, 2002).
15. Nezavisimoe voennoe obozrenie (October 9-15, 1998).
16. A very balanced summary is Lu Nanquan, "Chinese Views of the New Russia," in Rapprochement or Rivalry? Russia-China Relations in a Changing Asia, ed. Sherman Garnett (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000).
17. Peggy Falkenheim Meyer, "The Russian Far East's Economic Integration with Northeast Asia: Problems and Prospects," Pacific Affairs 72, no. 2 (summer 1999).
18. I b i d.
19. Ibid.; and conference presentation by Ksenia Gonchar of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Bonn International Center for Conversion, in Defense Economics: Defense Industry and the State, ed. Wayne Merry (Garmisch-Partenkirchen: George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, 2001).
20. Ibid.; and conference presentation by Ksenia Gonchar of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Bonn International Center for Conversion, in Defense Economics: Defense Industry and the State, ed. Wayne Merry (Garmisch-Partenkirchen: George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, 2001).
21. Meyer, "Russian Far East's Economic Integration."
22. Cited in Lukin, "Russia's Image of China and Russian-Chinese Relations."
23. Andrew Kuchins, "Russia's Relations with China and India: Strawgic Partnerships, Yes; Strategic Alliances, No," Demokratizatsiya 9, no. 2 (spring 2001).
24. I b i d.
25. ITAR-TASS (April 22, 2002).
26. Gilbert Rozman, "Sino-Soviet Relations: Mutual Assessments and Predictions," in Rapprochement or Rivalry? Russia-China Relations in a Changing Asia, ed. Sherman Garnett (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000); "Tumen River Project," TED Case Studies (available at www.american.edu/TED/TUMEN).
27. Gilbert Rozman, "Sino-Soviet Relations: Mutual Assessments and Predictions," in Rapprochement or Rivalry? Russia-China Relations in a Changing Asia, ed. Sherman Garnett (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000); "Tumen River Project," TED Case Studies (available at www.american.edu/TED/TUMEN).
28. Martha Brill Olcott, "Russian-Chinese Relations and Central Asia," in Garnelt, ed., Rapprochement or Rivalry?
29. Aleksandar Jovovic, "Russia's Southern Neighbors: Report of the Schlesinger Working Group," Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, spring 2001 (available at www .georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/isd/schlesinger/russias_neighbors2.pdf); International Crisis Group, "Central Asia: Fault Lines in the New Security Map," ICG, Brussels, July 2001.
30. Aleksandar Jovovic, "Russia's Southern Neighbors: Report of the Schlesinger Working Group," Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, spring 2001 (available at www .georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/isd/schlesinger/russias_neighbors2.pdf); International Crisis Group, "Central Asia: Fault Lines in the New Security Map," ICG, Brussels, July 2001.
31. Jyotsna Bakshi, "Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership in Central Asia: Implications for India," Strategic Analysis 25 (May 2001).
32. RFE/RL Newsline (April 17, 2002).
33. Richard McGregor, "U.S. and China Not Quite Up Close and Personal," Financial Times (February 19, 2002).
34. I b i d.
35. Ahmed Rashid, "Russia, China Warily Watch for American Intrusions in Central Asia," EurasiaNet (May 3, 2002) (available at www.eurasianet.org/depanments/insight/articles/eav050302.shtml).
36. Robert Cottrell, "Putin's Risky Strategy," Financial Times (February 12, 2002).
37. Author's interview with a senior Russian political figure, spring 2001.