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Economic Integrationist Aim and Projecting Influence

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Russia as an Aspiring Great Power in East Asia

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The Russian elite since the 1980s held an enduring perception of East Asia as an economically dynamic region which presented opportunities for Russia’s economic development and reassertion of influence, as encapsulated in Ivanov’s statement above. But for most of the early 1990s this policy remained largely on paper; Moscow focused more on economic cooperation with Europe. Only in the second half of the 1990s, with Russia’s 1997 admission into APEC, did Moscow invest more energy in pursuing economic ties and an economic presence in East Asia, albeit not wholly successfully. While those areas of Russia’s economic strength like energy resources and arms were endorsed for their economic benefits, they were also increasingly seen as foreign policy tools under Putin. How the elite perceived the use of Russia’s economic power in East Asia varied, sometimes causing policy tensions.

without vigorous efforts to attract our Asian neighbours … a rapid development of the eastern regions of Russia is impossible … we need a weighty Asian presence in Russia’s east as much as we do the integration of the Russian economy into the emerging new economic space of Asia. This is our strategic task for years to come.

(Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov)1

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Rangsimaporn, P. (2009). Economic Integrationist Aim and Projecting Influence. In: Russia as an Aspiring Great Power in East Asia. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244740_5

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