November - December 2025

The Asan Forum > Russia

Russia

Select the date
April 29, 2016 Special Forum
The Japan-US-Russia Triangle in 2016

The Washington-Tokyo-Moscow triangle has intermittently drawn attention since the 1950s for its potential to shift Japan’s foreign policy and alter the course of great power balancing. Until the […]

Gilbert Rozman

2 + alpha, Abe-Putin courtship, G-7 sanctions, Hikiwake, Northern Territories, Ukraine
April 19, 2016 Open Forum
Russia-Southeast Asia Relations: In China’s Shadow?

From May 19-20, the leaders of Southeast Asia nations will convene for the Russia-ASEAN summit at the Black Sea resort of Sochi to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of […]

Vitaly Kozyrev

APEC, EAS, EEU, regional security architecture, Russian Far East
April 7, 2016 Review Article
Ex-ambassadors to Seoul Advise It to Change

G. A. Ivashentsov and Shin Beom-shik, eds., Bezopasnost’ i Sotrudnichestvo v Severo-Vostochnoi Azii: Sovmestnyi Dokument Rossiiskikh i Iuzhnokoreiskikh Ekspertov (Security and Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Joint Document of […]

Gilbert Rozman

Historical consciousness, North Korean threat, Sino-US Relations, trilateralism
April 7, 2016 Open Forum
Washington Insights (Vol. 4, No. 2)

Sino-US Relations While many are discussing the dominance of competition over cooperation in Sino-US relations, one DC presentation argued that both threads are intensifying under the strong leadership […]

Editorial Staff

Eurasian Five, Japanese nationalism, Obama-Xi Summit, Russian Far East, South China Sea
March 30, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario II

Key terms over the past quarter century in strategizing about the Russian Far East include: complementarity, geo-economic competition, modernization, intimidation, and geostrategic competition. Reflecting on them, I revisit […]

Gilbert Rozman

complementarity, Russian Far East
March 25, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (March 2016)

Vladimir Lukin, after explaining shortcomings of the United States, wrote in Rossiia v Global’noi Politike, no. 1, about his conceptions of China and India. He praised Deng Xiaoping […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

EEU, Russian Far East, Silk Road Economic Belt, Sino-US Relations, TPP
March 10, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Positive Scenario II

Gilbert Rozman has good reason to be skeptical about the Russian Far East (RFE). In my first installment, I advanced a similar argument that the root cause of […]

Artyom Lukin

Sino-Russian Relations
February 23, 2016 Open Forum
Synopsis: German Marshall Fund Workshop on Sino-Russian Relations After Maidan—A New Reality? (February 4, 2016)

In 2015, Sino-Russian relations figured into debates on international relations more than at any time since the end of the Cold War. There was notable divergence on the […]

Editorial Staff

Sino-Russian Relations
February 22, 2016 Open Forum
Honeymoons Gone Awry: Abe-Putin, Putin-Xi, and Park-Xi

The term “honeymoon” has been used for three bilateral relationships in Northeast Asia, and there remains some uncertainty whether it still applies today. It gained popularity following what […]

Gilbert Rozman

Honeymoon
February 22, 2016 Review Article
Russia’s Turn to the East

I. A. Makarov, Povorot Na Vostok: Razvitie Sibiri I Dal’nego Vostoka VUsloviakh Usileniia Aziatskogo Vektora Vneshnei Politiki Rossii [The Turn to the East: The Development of Siberia and […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Big Eurasian Community, Turn to Asia