No. 132: Russia and Northeast Asia: Russian Foreign Policy Between Conflict and Rapprochement

Author(s): Akihiro Iwashita, Alexander Fedorovskiy
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 132
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2013

This edition looks at Russian foreign policy towards Northeast Asia. In the first article, Akihiro Iwashita traces the history of the Russian-Japanese dispute over the Kurile Islands/Northern Territorities, and considers the prospect for a solution to the issue in light of the upturn in Russo-Japanese relations in the fields of trade and energy. In the second article, Alexander Fedorovskiy outlines how Russian policy on North Korea favors multilateral dialogue and cooperation, in order to avoid an escalation in tension on the Korean peninsula, seeing continued insecurity as an obstacle to Russias wider economic policy in Northeast Asia.

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