Search: Japan,ASEAN (5 materials)

Russia and Multilateral Diplomacy in East Asia

... observers and relegates it to the bottom of the list of the priority areas of Russian policy in Asia. When Russian official speak of the country’s Asia policy, they usually start with Russia’s bilateral relations with regional leaders – China, Japan, South Korea and India – before turning to the Korean nuclear problem. Only then do they list the various multilateral diplomacy institutions around the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): the ASEAN–Russia Dialogue Partnership; the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting with Dialogue Partners (ADMM-Plus); the East Asia Summit; the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF); and Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA),...

27.09.2018

Is Europe (not) helping the US in its battle for Asia?

... – a superpower that acts as a military and political rival having a comparable capacity. They tend to agree in Washington that China is emerging (or, possibly, has already emerged) as such a rival. Game plan REUTERS/Tim Kelly Nikolai Murashkin: Japan–US Union and Southeast Asia: Getting closer to cement the status quo? The Asia–Pacific Region is not running short of highly explosive contradictions. The scenario for the two-day simulation that was organized at Chatham House in early ...

25.04.2016

Japan–US Union and Southeast Asia: Getting closer to cement the status quo?

... possible “reconstruction” of the Asian subregions in the foreign policy agenda and related discourse appears to be associated with the balance of forces in Asia. From constructivism to neorealism REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Nikolai Murashkin: Japan-ASEAN: an Inevitable Partnership in a New Asian Order? So long as the contemporary framework of international relations in East Asia is characterized by the shift in the balance of forces towards China, the response of the regional powers in terms of ...

21.04.2016

Japan-ASEAN: an Inevitable Partnership in a New Asian Order?

... middle class and intensified tensions in the South China Sea, relations between Asian countries appear to be a key factor in shaping modern global politics and the architecture of international cooperation within the Asia-Pacific region. In its turn, the Japan-ASEAN axis, apart from being one of the most institutionalized and least conflict-prone in East Asia, retains the potential for further political and economic development involving external players among others. The current state and prospects for Japan-ASEAN ...

16.03.2016

Russia: Pivoting to Asia or Just to China?

... against Russia by targeting a bank. Half a million Russian MasterCard/Visa cardholders were immediately affected. Responding to this, the Russian government reactivated the suspended project for a national electronic payments system, broadly analogous to Japan's JCB. The French government has postponed its decision as regards the Mistral ships which France is building for the Russian Navy. It may well be that that order will be canceled. Ukraine, faced with the prospect of losing the special gas price ...

31.03.2014

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  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
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