[DOWNLOAD] "Russia and Southeast Asia: A New Relationship." by Contemporary Southeast Asia ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Russia and Southeast Asia: A New Relationship.
- Author : Contemporary Southeast Asia
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 279 KB
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Introduction: The Immediate Post-Soviet Period ASEAN leaders conceived of a post-Cold War regional order that would engage an emerging China while preventing Sino-Japanese conflict and locking in the United States. In this security structure Russia appeared as an obvious balancer and necessary component of a great power regional equilibrium which ASEAN intended to foster. To ASEAN leaders at that time, post--Soviet Russia appeared as an appealing candidate for such a role. It had denounced its previous expansionist ambitions and could, it was assumed, contribute significantly to regional stability. Under Gorbachev the Soviet Union had promoted multilateralism within the Asia-Pacific region and had supported ASEAN efforts to construct a common security framework for Southeast Asia. It had participated in the termination of the Cambodia conflict over 1990-91, which justified its inclusion in ASEAN discussions on regional security (Sumsky 1999, p. 416). ASEAN invited Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev as a guest to its Annual Ministerial Meeting (AMM) in Manila in July 1992 in the expectation that Russia would continue with Gorbachev's policy.