Russia's Turn to the East: Domestic Policymaking and Regional Cooperation

ISBN-13: 9783319697895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 167 str.

Helge Blakkisrud; Elana Wilson Rowe

Opis

This book is open access under a CC BY license.This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country - and East Asia more broadly - have changed since the onset of the Ukraine crisis and Russia's annexation of Crimea.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Gateway or garrison? Border regions in times of geopolitical crisis (Helge Blakkisrud and Elana Wilson Rowe)

Chapter 2. An Asian pivot starts at home: The Russian Far East in Russian regional policy (Helge Blakkisrud)

Backdrop: post-1991 management of centre–region relations

The Ministry for the Development of the Far East

Institutional environment

Ministry for the Development of the Far East: successes and pitfalls

Chapter 3. Primorskii Krai and Russia’s ‘turn to the East’: A regional view (Tamara Troyakova)

Budgetary, administrative, legislative and policy changes

Economic development zones in Primorskii Krai

Far Eastern Hectare

Developing infrastructure

Primorye’s regional economic diplomacy

Chapter 4. Promoting new growth: ‘Advanced special economic zones’ in the Russian Far East (Jiyoung Min and Boogyun Kang)

Major socio-economic challenges in the Russian Far East

Russia’s new development strategy for the Far East

ASEZs: an investment platform to cultivate export-oriented industry

Evaluation of policy implementation and prospects for development

Chapter 5. The Russian Far East and Russian security policy in the Asia–Pacific region (Malin Østevik and Natasha Kuhrt)

Historical backdrop to Russia’s security policy in the Asia–Pacific

Russian security policy in the Asia–Pacific region 2012–14

The 2014 crisis with the West and Russia’s Northeast Asian security policy

Chapter 6. Energy Relations between China and Russia after Crimea (Indra Øverland and Gulaikhan Kubayeva)

Sanctions against Russia

Patterns of economic interaction between China and Russia

Sino–Russian energy projects

The long-term perspective

Chapter 7. Russia, China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Diverging security interests and the ‘Crimea effect’ (Marc Lanteigne)

A troubled pivot: Russia’s turn to East Asia under Putin

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: an overview

Sino–Russian relations and the evolution of the SCO

Security debates within the SCO

Georgia and Ukraine: the cracks get wider?

Conclusions: same bed, different dreams?

Chapter 8. Russia’s new Asian tilt: How much does economy matter? (Roman Vakulchuk)

Context does matter

Attempts to improve business climate in the Far East: new efforts, old story?

Trade: who is at the helm?

FDI in the Russian Far East

Concluding discussion: The swan, the pike and the crawfish

Chapter  9. Afterword: 6,400 kilometres away – but not a policy world apart (Elana Wilson Rowe and Helge Blakkisrud)

Pivoting, turning or leaning? A growing suite of measures and institutions

Turning as turning away? Europe or Asia in a post-Ukraine period

O autorze

Helge Blakkisrud is Head of the Research Group on Russia, Eurasia and the Arctic at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway. His research interests include Russian regional politics, centre–region relations and federalism, as well as nation-building, nationalism and national identity in Russia and Eurasia. His most recent books are The Governors’ Last Stand: Federal Bargaining in Russia's Transition to Appointed Regional Heads, 2005–2009 (2015) and The New Russian Nationalism: Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism, 2000–2015 (co-edited with Pål Kolstø, 2016).

Elana Wilson Rowe is Head of the Research Group on Emerging Powers and International Development at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway; and Adjunct Professor at Nord University, Norway. Her present research interests include Russian foreign policy, particularly in the areas of energy and climate change, and Arctic politics. She is the author of Russian Climate Politics (2013), editor of Russia and the North (2009) and co-editor of The Multilateral Dimension in Russian Foreign Policy (with Stina Torjesen, 2009) and Russia’s Encounter with Globalization (with Julie Wilhelmsen, 2011)

Blurb

This book is open access under a CC BY license.

This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country – and East Asia more broadly – have changed since the onset of the Ukraine crisis and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Following the 2014 annexation and the subsequent enactment of a sanctions regime against the country, the Kremlin has emphasized the eastern vector in its external relations. But to what extent has Russia’s 'pivot to the East' intensified or changed in nature – domestically and internationally – since the onset of the current crisis in relations with the West? Rather than taking the declared 'pivot' as a fact and exploring the consequences of it, the contributors to this volume explore whether a pivot has indeed happened or if what we see today is the continuation of longer-duration trends, concerns and ambitions.

Helge Blakkisrud is Head of the Research Group on Russia, Eurasia and the Arctic at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway. His research interests include Russian regional politics, centre–region relations and federalism, as well as nation-building, nationalism and national identity in Russia and Eurasia. His most recent books are The Governors’ Last Stand: Federal Bargaining in Russia's Transition to Appointed Regional Heads, 2005–2009 (2015) and The New Russian Nationalism: Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism, 2000–2015 (co-edited with Pål Kolstø, 2016).

Elana Wilson Rowe is Head of the Research Group on Emerging Powers and International Development at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway; and Adjunct Professor at Nord University, Norway. Her present research interests include Russian foreign policy, particularly in the areas of energy and climate change, and Arctic politics. She is the author of Russian Climate Politics (2013), editor of Russia and the North (2009) and co-editor of The Multilateral Dimension in Russian Foreign Policy (with Stina Torjesen, 2009) and Russia’s Encounter with Globalization (with Julie Wilhelmsen, 2011).