Product Description: This book addresses the problem of World Regional Studies and its components: regional complexes, regional subsystems and global regions. With an increasingly complex international system and the emergence of new actors, it is clear that the conceptual framing within the classical disciplines of IR, Political Theory, International Political Economy or Comparative Politics can no longer fully explain a number of processes originating from a tighter and intricate nexus between local, regional and global dimensions...read more

Product Description: This study incorporates elements from the disciplines of international relations and history to address key international and domestic elements that have shaped the interactions between Russia and China over time. It demonstrates how changes in the inter-state relationship were, and are, initiated...read more

Product Description: . This is the first book-length bibliographic profile that addresses the literature about Russia's and China's place in the world. The past, present and future roles of these countries in international affairs and various Eurasian problems published in the last three hundred years in Russia, China, the Central Asian states, the USA, Britain and-the limited part-in France, Italy, Germany, Japan and India...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Post-Soviet period is of crucial importance to the remainder of the world. The military, political, economic and social changes unfolding in Russia and it's former republics carry significant meaning and opportunities, in many cases , for countries outside of Russia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Many people believe that the Chinese are deprived of a sense of humor, but there hardly exists a nation without laughter and jokes. Those who have been in China or know Chinese people would agree that China is not an exception. Humor in China belonging to a different civilization has seemed strange to us...read more

Product Description: The US-Chinese relationship is constantly being thoroughly scrutinized by Russia. Naturally, the Russo-Chinese relationship is of great interest to Washington, and US-Russian relations are of significant interest in Beijing. An analysis of the new dimensions in the triangular relationship between the US, Russia, and China is needed to better understand the multi-polar world...read more

Product Description: This book is the first attempt to study all facets of the Russian-Chinese negotiations of 1880-1881, initiated by China to regain the Ili Valley occupied by Russian troops in 1871. Chinese materials are assessed through the prism of documents from Russian Archives...read more