Instrumental Internationalization

Regional Foreign and Security Policy Interests in Primorskii Krai

Author(s): Mikhail Alexseev
Series: Project Regionalization of Russian Foreign and Security Policy
Issue: 18
Publisher(s): Forschungsstelle für Sicherheitspolitik und Konfliktanalyse, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2002

Situated at the borders of China, Korea and Japan, Primorskii Krai has become a focal point for center-periphery disputes over the internationalization of local economies and social and political relations. The author of this paper analyzes the consolidation of economic and political power in Primorskii Krai by a coalition of local industrialists and former party apparatchiks led by Yevgenii Nazdratenko. The author demonstrates how Nazdratenko used the threat of greater regional sovereignty as a strategic bargaining tool for gaining greater control of resources and thereby winning the support of local economic elites. More cooperative centerperiphery relations are however forecast due to the leadership change in the Kremlin and the arrival of a new leader in Primorskii Krai.

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