RUSSIA: 'Eastern shift' is more rhetorical than real

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In this article

  • Key trends
  • Sino-Russian rapprochement
  • Deteriorating US-Russian relations
  • Financial crisis
  • Changing world order?
  • International security
  • Economic cooperation
  • Culture and values
  • National security and prosperity
  • China factor
  • Selected interests
  • Instrumentalism
  • Strategic caution
  • Energy 'red herring'
  • Russia's real agenda
  • Great power status
  • Undermining the United States
  • Reshaping the world order
  • Ensuring greater respect
  • Rhetoric and reality
  • Reinventing the West
  • Redefining modernisation
  • Achieving inclusion
  • Playing on strategic anxieties
  • Recasting bipolarity

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