Russia in the Pacific

The Quest for Great Power Recognition

Charles E. Ziegler (, University of Louisville)

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English

Oxford University Press Inc
10 January 2024

Asian history; Regional government; International relations; Geopolitics

Russia in the Pacific approaches the puzzle of why Russia, with much of its huge territory straddling Asia, has not had more success in establishing a position as a great power in the Asia Pacific. Russian leaders from Nicholas II in the late nineteenth century to Vladimir Putin in the twenty-first have periodically advanced policies to gain territory or influence, secure buffer zones in the region, develop the sparsely populated Far East and protect it against foreign intervention, and integrate into the regional economy, but have met with only partial success. Structural factors constraining Russian regional aspirations include geographic challenges, demographic imbalances, and persistent low levels of economic development. Institutional factors--the hyper-centralized, secretive character of Russian foreign policy making, bureaucratic competition, and dominance of a single powerful executive-also have been critical in shaping Russian foreign policy toward the Pacific. The persistence of certain patterns in Russia's Asia policy suggest even the most powerful autocrat faces constraints.

Starting with Russian imperial expansion in the late nineteenth century, Charles E. Ziegler considers the impact of the Russo-Japanese War on late tsarist Russian autocracy and assesses Soviet Asian initiatives under Stalin and his successors during the Cold War. He examines the diplomatic, economic and military dimensions of Vladimir Putin's pivot toward the Asia Pacific. His conceptual approach is analytically eclectic, combining realism's focus on military and economic dimensions of power with a constructivist attention to domestic politics, culture, and questions of national identity.

By: Charles E. Ziegler ( University of Louisville)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 163mm, Width: 242mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780197751992
ISBN 10: 0197751997
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 10 January 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charles E. Ziegler has been on the faculty at the University of Louisville since 1980. He has had grants from IREX, a Fulbright Fellowship (to Korea), and Fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Hoover Institution. He was a visiting scholar at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and served as Legislative Assistant for Defense and Foreign Policy in the U.S. Senate. Ziegler was Project Director for a State Department funded program on building civil society in Kazakhstan. He was Chair of the Political Science Department, and founder and Senior Scholar of the Center for Asian Democracy at the University of Louisville. He has served as Executive Director of the Louisville Committee on Foreign Relations since 1990 and is currently Faculty Director of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Ziegler received his BA from Purdue University, and MA and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He has published or edited six books and over 120 academic articles and book chapters.