Sino-Russian Recalibration in Central Asia?

The article examines Sino-Russian relations in Central Asia against the background of the deepening partnership between Moscow and Beijing. We have yet to see any substantial Sino-Russian cooperation in Central Asia, even though Xi and Putin pledged at their March 2023 summit meeting to expand such cooperation. China's Central Asian diplomacy has been more active of late, but this has not necessarily come at the expense of Russian influence. While some Chinese experts see Russia’s distraction with the war in Ukraine as an opportunity to advance the PRC's economic interests in the region, others point to China's soft-power deficit as an obstacle to further gains. Despite China’s growing economic clout, Russia retains considerable negative hegemony and has sought to check Chinese plans for energy connectivity to maintain its own role as a regional energy supplier. Though the two countries share an interest in preventing the expansion of Western influence, Russian and Chinese actions have in fact led the Central Asian countries to seek partners outside the region

Strategic Consequences of the Iraq War: U.S. Security Interests in Central Asia Reassessed

The U.S.-led war in Iraq complicates security cooperation between the United States and Central Asia at a time when other regional powers—especially Russia, China, and India—are competing for influence in the region more overtly. Concerned about the implications of the U.S. interest in regime change for their own rule, Central Asian leaders now have an added incentive to overstate terrorist threats, persecute political opposition, and crack down on peaceful religious activity. The author argues that the United States should do more to address the underlying human security problems in Central Asia, which increase its vulnerability to terrorist movements.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/1767/thumbnail.jp

Growing U.S. Security Interests in Central Asia

The author assesses U.S. security interests and military activities in Central Asia. She notes that strengthening the Central Asian states against terrorism and assisting their transition to stable and prosperous nations are difficult and fraught with danger. In particular, there is the risk that the U.S. military presence in the region and security assistance to repressive regimes might taint America. If not astutely managed, this strategy could have the opposite of the intended results and generate increased instability, spark anti-Americanism, and antagonize Russia and China. To avoid this, Dr. Wishnick advocates a multilateral strategy that integrates the military, political, and economic elements of national power and prods the Central Asian regimes toward reform.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/1810/thumbnail.jp

Dieter Heinzig, The Soviet Union and Communist China 1945-1950. The Arduous Road to the Alliance

With the emergence over the past decade of new documentary evidence about the history of Sino-Soviet relations from Russian and Chinese archives, scholars are re-examining the diplomatic record to complete our understanding of the dynamics of a complex relationship. Dieter Heinzig makes an important contribution to this effort with his meticulous research on Sino-Soviet diplomatic encounters from 1945 to 1950. Heinzig’s work relies mostly on new studies by Chinese scholars who have had access..

Dieter Heinzig, The Soviet Union and Communist China 1945-1950. The Arduous Road to the Alliance

Depuis une dizaine d’années, grâce à de nouveaux documents sur les relations sino-soviétiques issus des archives russes et chinoises, les spécialistes réexaminent les annales diplomatiques pour compléter la compréhension des ressorts de cette relation complexe. Dieter Heinzig apporte une contribution importante à cet effort avec cette recherche méticuleuse sur les rencontres diplomatiques entre l’URSS et la Chine de 1945 à 1950. Son travail repose principalement sur des études récentes de che..

Pandemic Politics in Eurasia:Roadmap for a New Research Subfield

© 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The sudden onset of COVID-19 has challenged many social scientists to proceed without a robust theoretical and empirical foundation upon which to build. Addressing this challenge, particularly as it pertains to Eurasia, our multinational group of scholars draws on past and ongoing research to suggest a roadmap for a new pandemic politics research subfield. Key research questions include not only how states are responding to the new coronavirus, but also reciprocal interactions between the pandemic and society, political economy, regime type, center-periphery relations, and international security. The Foucauldian concept of “biopolitics” holds out particular promise as a theoretical framework

Pandemic Politics in Eurasia:Roadmap for a New Research Subfield

The sudden onset of the coronavirus pandemic has challenged many scholars of the social sciences to proceed in the absence of a robust theoretical research foundation upon which to build. This article seeks to help scholars meet this challenge, particularly as it pertains to Eurasia, through bringing together a multinational group of scholars in order to develop the roadmap for a new pandemic politics research subfield. It begins with a discussion of how states are responding to COVID-19 before moving into an exploration of reciprocal interactions between the pandemic and society, political economy, regime type, center-periphery relations, and international security. Finally, it discusses the potential novel contributions of a theoretical foundation rooted in the Foucauldian concept of “biopolitics.” Ultimately, we hope to spark an ongoing conversation regarding how political science and the social sciences more broadly can be used to understand the impacts of the pandemic and inform policymaking amidst the current and potential future pandemics

Mending Fences : The Evolution of Moscow\u27s China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin

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