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Cover -- Russia and China. A political marriage of convenience â#x80;#x93; stable and successful -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Theoretical Introduction -- 1. Between Neorealism and Constructivism -- 2. The Asymmetric Win-Win -- 3. The Argument: 17th Century as the Model for Sino-Russian Relations -- II. The Domestic Determinants of Russiaâ#x80;#x99;s and Chinaâ#x80;#x99;s Policymaking -- 1. Historical and Cultural Determinants -- 2. The â#x80;#x9C;Russian Ideaâ#x80;#x9D; -- 3. Russiaâ#x80;#x99;s Great Power Syndrome -- 4. Russia in Asia -- 5. Chinaâ#x80;#x99;s Sinocentricism

6. Chinaâ#x80;#x99;s (post)Confucianist Ideational Eclecticism7. War and Peace by China and Russia -- 8. Two Different Authoritarianisms -- 9. Personalities in Russia-China Relations -- 10. Yeltsinâ#x80;#x99;s Russia and his Policy Concepts -- 11. Putin and Putinism -- 12. Putin and China -- 13. Chinaâ#x80;#x99;s Third and Fourth Generation of Leadership -- 14. Xi Jinping and his â#x80;#x9C;Chinese Dreamâ#x80;#x9D; -- 15. Putin and Xi -- 16. â#x80;#x9C;Hot on top, cold at bottomâ#x80;#x9D; -- III. â#x80;#x9C;Democratization of International Relationsâ#x80;#x9D;:International Roles of Russia and China -- 1. â#x80;#x9C;Soft Revisionistsâ#x80;#x9D

2. â#x80;#x9C;Strategic Screenâ#x80;#x9D;3. The USA and beyond the USA in Russia-China Relations -- 4. Russiaâ#x80;#x99;s Foreign Policy Goals -- 5. Chinaâ#x80;#x99;s Foreign Policy Goals -- 6. Russia and China in International Organizations, Groups and Forums -- 7. The Alexander Nevsky Paradigm? -- 8. Summary: The Changing International Roles -- Part One: Geopolitics and Beyond:Bilateral Political Relations 1991-2017 -- 1. Before 1991: Overshadowed by Russia -- 2. From Lack of Interest to Rapprochement -- 3. â#x80;#x9C;Strategic Partnershipâ#x80;#x9D; -- 4. Changed Leadership, Continued Policy Agenda

5. 11 September 20016. Putinâ#x80;#x99;s Policy of Balancing Powers -- 7. Towards Rapprochement with China -- 8. The Economic Crisis of 2008 and Its Consequencesfor Bilateral Relations -- 9. The US Pivot to Asia and Its Impact on Sino-Russian Relations -- 10. Xi Jinping and the Intensification of Sino-Russian Relations -- 11. Ukrainian Crisis and China-Russia Relations -- 12. Embracing One Belt One Road:The Recent Sino-Russian Relations -- Part Two: Pipelines and Arms:Economic and Military Relations -- I. Economic Relations -- 1. Economic Cooperation in the 1990s

2. Economic Cooperation in 2000-2017:The Geopolitics of Energy and Beyond3. The ESPO Oil Pipeline and the â#x80;#x9C;Power of Siberiaâ#x80;#x9D; Gas Pipeline -- 4. Trade Volume -- 5. Summary -- II. Military Relations -- 1. Arms Sales -- 2. Military Cooperation, Joint Exercises -- 3. Summary -- Part Three: Chinaâ#x80;#x99;s Appendix? The Russian Far East -- 1. The Domestic Context -- 2. From Open to Closed Borders: The Russian Far East in Russia-China Relations in the 1990s -- 3. The Final Demarcation of Russian-Chinese Border -- 4. Chinese Migration to the Russian Far East

""5. Big Plans, Little Results: Russia and the Russian Far East in the 2000s""

Annotation This book depicts the sophisticated relationship between Russia and China as a pragmatic one, a political marriage of convenience. Yet at the same time, the relationship is stable, and will likely remain so. After all, bilateral relations are usually based on pragmatic interests and the pursuit of these interests is the essence of foreign policy. And, as often happens in life, the most long-lasting marriages are those based on convenience.

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