Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Gateway or Garrison? Border Regions in Times of Geopolitical Crisis -- References -- Chapter 2: An Asian Pivot Starts at Home: The Russian Far East in Russian Regional Policy -- Backdrop: Post-1991 Management of Centre-Region Relations -- The Russian Far East -- The Ministry for the Development of the Far East -- Portfolio -- Plans and Implementation -- Institutional Environment -- Intra-Ministerial Competition and Rivalries -- Oversight Versus Overlap: The Role of the Presidential Plenipotentiary -- Bureaucratization and Duplication -- The Regional Executive -- Ministry for the Development of the Far East: Successes and Pitfalls -- References -- Chapter 3: Primorskii Krai and Russia's 'Turn to the East': A Regional View -- Budgetary, Administrative, Legislative and Policy Changes -- Economic Development Zones in Primorskii Krai -- Advanced Special Economic Zones -- Free Port of Vladivostok -- Far Eastern Hectare -- Developing Infrastructure -- Primorye's Regional Economic Diplomacy -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4: Promoting New Growth: 'Advanced Special Economic Zones' in the Russian Far East -- Major Socioeconomic Challenges in the  Russian Far East -- Russia's New Development Strategy for the Far East -- ASEZs: An Investment Platform to Cultivate Export-Oriented Industry -- Content and Characteristics -- Initial Results -- Evaluation of Policy Implementation and Prospects for Development -- References -- Chapter 5: The Russian Far East and Russian Security Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region -- Historical Backdrop to Russia's Security Policy in the Asia-Pacific -- Russian Security Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region: 2012-14 -- Strategic Partnership with China -- The Russo-Chinese Border as a Source of Insecurity.

Deployment of Armed Forces in the Russian Far East -- Bilateral Relations with Japan -- US-led Alliances in Northeast Asia -- Russia's Approach to Multilateralism -- The 2014 Crisis with the West and Russia's Northeast Asian Security Policy -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Did China Bankroll Russia's Annexation of Crimea? The Role of Sino-Russian Energy Relations -- Sanctions Against Russia -- China's Stance on the Sanctions -- Patterns of Economic Interaction Between China and Russia -- Sino-Russian Energy Projects -- Transneft: ESPO Pipeline -- Gazprom: Power of Siberia -- Novatek: Yamal LNG -- Rosneft: Vankor -- Summing Up the Four Projects -- The Long-Term Perspective -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7: Russia, China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Diverging Security Interests and the 'Crimea Effect' -- A Troubled Pivot: Russia's Turn to East Asia Under Putin -- The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: An Overview -- Sino-Russian Relations and the Evolution of the SCO -- Security Debates Within the SCO -- Georgia and Ukraine: The Cracks Get Wider? -- Conclusions: Same Bed, Different Dreams? -- References -- Chapter 8: Russia's New Asian Tilt: How Much Does Economy Matter? -- Context Does Matter -- Attempts to Improve Business Climate in the Far East: New Efforts, Old Story? -- Trade: Who Is at the Helm? -- FDI in the Russian Far East -- Concluding Discussion: The Swan, the Pike and the Crawfish -- References -- Chapter 9: Afterword: 6400 Kilometres Away-But Not a Policy World Apart -- Pivoting, Turning or Leaning? A Growing Suite of Measures and Institutions -- Turning as Turning Away? Europe or Asia in a Post-­Crimea Period -- Index.

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