title: Evolution of the ‘Russian factor’ in Japanese foreign policy in Central Asia
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metadata.value: Murashkin, Nikolay Yu.
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metadata.value: 2019-01-28T11:35:31Z
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metadata.value: 2019-01-28T11:35:31Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.value: Murashkin N. Yu. Evolution of the ‘Russian factor’ in Japanese foreign policy in Central Asia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2018, vol. 11, issue 4, pp. 362–375.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu06.2018.403
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15313
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metadata.value: The article offers a nuanced analysis of several milestones in the evolution of Japan’s foreign
  policy in post-Soviet Central Asia, focusing in particular on Russia’s role and place in Tokyo’s
  diplomatic strategy in the region. It aims to fill gaps in understanding what the driving forces
  behind this foreign policy are and to reflect such nuances as the changes in Japan’s diplomatic
  priorities in relation to Central Asia in Tokyo’s foreign policy community. The work introduces
  a number of primary and secondary sources into the Russian-language academic literature
  on the matter that were previously unused or used insufficiently, in the English and Japanese
  languages. The article challenges the idea of reducing Japan’s foreign policy in Central Asia
  to only passing the U.S. foreign policy interest and interpreting it as balancing Russia’s influence
  on Central Asia within the ‘zero-sum-game’. According to the author, such balancing
  corresponds to individual, if notable, episodes in Tokyo’s foreign policy in the region, which
  are more accurately described in terms of neoclassical realism as overbalancing. A restrictive
  interpretation of Tokyo’s Silk Road Diplomacy as balancing the influence of Russia and/
  or China would also be static since it would not reflect the changes that this diplomacy went
  through over the two decades of its existence — for example, a gradual change in the position
  of Tokyo toward increased cooperation and decreased competition, as well as the reasons for
  these changes. The article is dedicated to the analysis of various milestones in the development
  of Tokyo’s foreign policy in Central Asia while considering the ‘Russian factor’.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 11; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Japan-Russia relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Central Asia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: balance of powers
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: neoclassical realism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: overbalancing
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the New Silk Road
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Evolution of the ‘Russian factor’ in Japanese foreign policy in Central Asia
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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