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Russia and China: A Political Marriage of Convenience - Stable and Successful
Michal Lubina
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Hardback. This book depicts the sophisticated relationship between Russia and China as a pragmatic one, a political "marriage of convenience". Yet at the same time the relationship is stable, and will remain so. After all, bilateral relations are usually based on pragmatic interests and the pursuit of these interests is the very essence of foreign policy. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 147. .
The highly complex, complicated, ambiguous and yet, indeed, successful relationship between Russia and China throughout the past 25 years is difficult to grasp theoretically. Russian and Chinese elites are hard-core realists in their foreign policies, and the neorealist school in international relations seems to be the most adequate one to research Russian-Sino relations. Realistically, throughout this period China achieved a multidimensional advantage over Russia. Yet, simultaneously those two countries failed to conform to the logic of power politics and have been undergoing a peaceful power transition. Beijing knows its limits and does not go into extremes. Rather, China successfully seeks ... Read more
The highly complex, complicated, ambiguous and yet, indeed, successful relationship between Russia and China throughout the past 25 years is difficult to grasp theoretically. Russian and Chinese elites are hard-core realists in their foreign policies, and the neorealist school in international relations seems to be the most adequate one to research Russian-Sino relations. Realistically, throughout this period China achieved a multidimensional advantage over Russia. Yet, simultaneously those two countries failed to conform to the logic of power politics and have been undergoing a peaceful power transition. Beijing knows its limits and does not go into extremes. Rather, China successfully seeks ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verlag Barbara Budrich
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28 g
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Leverkusen, Germany
ISBN
9783847420453
SKU
V9783847420453
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About Michal Lubina
Michal Lubina is assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
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