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May 11, 2022 Special Forum
Revisiting Russia’s “Turn to the East” amid the Ukraine War

A decade after Vladimir Putin declared that Russia would “Turn to the East,” he invaded Ukraine in the largest land war in the West since World War II. […]

Editorial Staff

“Turn to the East”, color revolutions, Ukraine War, Vladimir Putin
May 11, 2022 Special Forum
Russian Thinking about the Korean Peninsula and the US Role There over a Decade

The Korean Peninsula is arguably the bellwether for Russia’s post-Cold War thinking on East Asia and the US role there. Moscow watched aghast in the 1990s after it […]

Gilbert Rozman

“Turn to the East”, North Korea, sanctions, Ukraine War, Vladimir Putin
May 11, 2022 Special Forum
Russian Thinking about CSTO Peacekeeping: Central Asia, China, and the Ukraine War

When Putin defined his vision of a Eurasian regional order on June 17, 2016, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, he called it the Greater Eurasian Partnership […]

Gaye Christoffersen

“Turn to the East”, Collective Security Treaty Organization, Peacekeeping, Ukraine War, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping
May 11, 2022 Special Forum
Russia “Turns to the East” yet away from Japan (2012-2022)

On March 7 2022, the Russian government included Japan in an official list of countries and regions labelled as “unfriendly.” This was followed on March 21 by the […]

James D.J. Brown

“Hikiwake”, “Turn to the East”, Abe Shinzo, Southern Kuril Islands, Ukraine War, US-Japan alliance, Vladimir Putin