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Rivalry and dialogue in Russo‐Japanese relations

Bibliographic Data

ID11221311
AuthorsStephen Blank (United States Army War College, corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume12
Issue2
Pages173-198
Publication date1993-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Strategy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0149-5933 • E-ISSN: 1521-0448
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01495939308402917
OpenAlexW2086482054
LanguageEN
References cited13

This article is a comprehensive examination of recent Russian relations with Japan in all its aspects: economic, military, political, and the problem of the Kurile Islands. It also is cast in the wider context of Russian strategy in Asia and in the context of the relationship between Japan, Russia, and the United States that is fundamentally structured by the U.S.‐Japan Mutual Defense Treaty. It examines the impasse in the bilateral relationship of Russia and Japan in those contexts and dimensions in order to explain not only why the Kurile Islands poses so intractable an issue but why the overall relationship is likely to continue to be unresolved for some time to come. A continuing strain in Russo‐Japanese relations will not bring us back to the cold war in Asia, but it will perpetuate the enduring regional tensions that antedated it and were subsumed in it. Thus, this continuing bilateral tension will retard the stabilization of the Asia‐Pacific region's security structure

Cold war · Context (archaeology · Economics · Economy · International relations · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rivalry · Sociology · Treaty · History · Japanese History and Culture · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law

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