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Asian Politics & Policy APP Asian Politics & Policy Volume 10 • Number 4 • October 2018 SPECIAL ISSUE: RUSSIA IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC INTRODUCTION: Russia in the Asia-Pacifi c Alexander Lukin ORIGINAL ARTICLES Russia’s Pivot to Asia: Situational Interest or Strategic Necessity? Maxim Bratersky Greater Eurasia and Russian Foreign Policy Priorities Timofei Bordachev Russian-Chinese Security Cooperation in Asia Vasily Kashin and Alexander Lukin Transformation of China’s Development Model under Xi Jinping and its Implications for Russian Exports Igor Makarov, Ilya Stepanov, and Vasily Kashin Missed Opportunities: Could a U.S.-Russian Dialogue on Asia Pacifi c Have Prevented the New Cold War? Dmitry Suslov Russia’s Policy toward Japan and Regional Security in the Asia-Pacifi c Oleg Paramonov and Olga Puzanova Prospects for Normalization on the Korean Peninsula: A View from Moscow Valery Denisov and Anastasia Pyatachkova Russia and India in the Indo-Pacifi c Sergey Lunev and Ellina Shavlay Reenergizing the Russia-ASEAN Relationship: The Eurasian Opportunity Evgeny Kanaev and Alexander Korolev Russia-Australia Relations in the Context of the Ukrainian Crisis Ivan Krivushin The Eurasian Economic Union and the Integration Process in the Asia Pacifi c Anastasia Likhacheva Mega-Regional Agreements and the Struggle for Economic Order in the Asia-Pacifi c Region Dmitry Novikov and Veronika Shumkova An International Journal of Public Policy aaspp_v10_i4_Issue_Info.inddspp_v10_i4_Issue_Info.indd 1 003-01-20193-01-2019 08:01:4808:01:48 Asian Politics & Policy Volume 10, Issue 4, October 2018 EDITORIAL TEAM Editor-in-Chief: Aileen S. P. Baviera (University of the Philippines, Philippines) Managing Editor: Sascha M. Gallardo (University of the Philippines, Philippines) Senior Editor (Praxis): Aries A. Arugay (University of the Philippines, Philippines) Senior Editors (Book Reviews): Maria Consuelo C. Ortuoste (California State University, East Bay, USA) and Christopher Roberts (University of New South Wales-ADFA, Australia) Senior Editor (Media Reviews): Ma. Diosa Labiste (University of the Philippines, Philippines) Associate Editor (Praxis): Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Contributing Editors (Reviews): Seyed Ali Alavi (SOAS University of London, United Kingdom) Derek Bolton (University of Bath, United Kingdom) Hossein Aghaie Joobani (Linköping University, Sweden) Mostafa Mousavipour (University of Tehran, Iran) Lucio B. Pitlo III (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) Janjira Somatpoonsiri (Thammasat University, Thailand) ADVISORY BOARD Richard Bitzinger (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore) Joseph Camilleri (La Trobe University, Australia) C. Steven McGann (National Defense University, USA) Francisco Nemenzo (University of the Philippines, Philippines) William Ratliff (Stanford University, USA) Akihiko Tanaka (University of Tokyo, Japan) William Tow (Australian National University, Australia) Immanuel Wallerstein (Yale University, USA) Zhang Yunling (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China) EDITORIAL BOARD Southeast Asia Flemming Christiansen (University of Duiburg-Essen, Germany) Dewi Fortuna Anwar (Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Indonesia) Daniel Guttman (The Johns Hopkins University, USA) Alice Ba, University of Delaware (Southeast Asia) Yufan Hao (University of Macau, Macau SAR, China) Leszek Buszynski (Australian National University, Australia) Geir Helgesen (The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Denmark) Mely Caballero-Anthony (Nanyang Technological University, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Singapore) Richard Weixing Hu (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong David Capie (Victoria University of Wellington, SAR, China) New Zealand) Kwei-bo Huang (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) Chealy Chet (Cambodian Mekong University, Cambodia) Wenran Jiang (University of Alberta, Canada) Eduardo Gonzalez (University of the Philippines, Philippines) Masaru Kohno (Waseda University, Japan) Jürgen Haacke (London School of Economics and Political Chyungly Lee (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) Science, United Kingdom) Mingjiang Li (RSIS, Nanyang Technological University, Paul Hutchcroft (Australian National University, Australia) Singapore) Darryl Stuart Jarvis (The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Yihu Li (Peking University, China) Hong Kong SAR, China) Alexander Lukin (Moscow State Institute of International Amarjit Kaur (University of New England, Australia) Relations, Russia) Damien Kingsbury (Deakin University, Australia) Li Narangoa (Australian National University, Australia) Anthony Milner (Australian National University, Australia) Terence Roehrig (Naval War College, USA) James Ockey (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Caroline Rose (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) Sorpong Peou (Ryerson University, Canada) James Tang (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Thitinan Pongsudhirak (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) Nicholas Thomas (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Temario Rivera (University of the Philippines, Philippines) SAR, China) John T. Sidel (London School of Economics and Political Bin Yu (Xavier University, USA) Science, United Kingdom) Daojiong Zha (Peking University, China) David Steinberg (Georgetown University, USA) Yongjin Zhang (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem (University of the Philippines, South/West/Central Asia Philippines) Arshin Adib-Moghaddam (SOAS, University of London, Siew Mun Tang (Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, United Kingdom) Singapore) Ishtiaq Ahmad (Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan) Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Rouben Azizian (Asia Pacifi c Center for Security Studies, USA) Indonesia) Daniel Brumberg (Georgetown University, USA) Alexander Vuving (Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Partha Chatterjee (Columbia University, USA) USA) Ian Hall (Griffi th University, Australia) Lynn T. White (Princeton University, USA) Wai Fung Lam (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Northeast Asia China) Daniel P. Aldrich (Purdue University, USA) Saideh Lotfi an (University of Tehran, Iran) Charles Armstrong (Columbia University, USA) Amita Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Zhiyue Bo (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Swaran Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Zhimin Chen (Fudan University, China) Mahjoob Zweiri (Qatar University, Qatar) ASPP_C2-C3.indd 1 15/04/15 4:23 PM aaspp_v10_i4_Issue_Info.inddspp_v10_i4_Issue_Info.indd 2 003-01-20193-01-2019 08:01:4808:01:48 Asian Politics & Policy Volume 10, Issue 4, October 2018 http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/aspp Special Issue: Russia in the Asia-Pacifi c INTRODUCTION Russia in the Asia-Pacifi c Alexander Lukin 576 ORIGINAL ARTICLES Russia’s Pivot to Asia: Situational Interest or Strategic Necessity? Maxim Bratersky 584 Greater Eurasia and Russian Foreign Policy Priorities Timofei Bordachev 597 Russian-Chinese Security Cooperation in Asia Vasily Kashin and Alexander Lukin 614 Transformation of China’s Development Model under Xi Jinping and its Implications for Russian Exports Igor Makarov, Ilya Stepanov, and Vasily Kashin 633 Missed Opportunities: Could a U.S.-Russian Dialogue on Asia Pacifi c Have Prevented the New Cold War? Dmitry Suslov 655 Russia’s Policy toward Japan and Regional Security in the Asia-Pacifi c Oleg Paramonov and Olga Puzanova 677 Prospects for Normalization on the Korean Peninsula: A View from Moscow Valery Denisov and Anastasia Pyatachkova 693 Russia and India in the Indo-Pacifi c Sergey Lunev and Ellina Shavlay 713 Reenergizing the Russia-ASEAN Relationship: The Eurasian Opportunity Evgeny Kanaev and Alexander Korolev 732 aaspp_v10_i4_Issue_Info.inddspp_v10_i4_Issue_Info.indd 3 003-01-20193-01-2019 08:01:4808:01:48 Russia-Australia Relations in the Context of the Ukrainian Crisis Ivan Krivushin 752 The Eurasian Economic Union and the Integration Process in the Asia Pacifi c Anastasia Likhacheva 772 Mega-Regional Agreements and the Struggle for Economic Order in the Asia-Pacifi c Region Dmitry Novikov and Veronika Shumkova 791 aaspp_v10_i4_Issue_Info.inddspp_v10_i4_Issue_Info.indd 4 003-01-20193-01-2019 08:01:4808:01:48 Asian Politics & Policy (1943-0787) is published quarterly on behalf of the Policy Studies Organization by Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., a Wiley Company, 111 River St., Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774. 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