TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lo,Bobo
TI  - Axis of convenience: Moscow, Beijing, and the new geopolitics 
SN  - 9780815753407 (cloth : alk. paper)
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London, Washington, D.C.
PB  - Chatham House, Brookings Institution Press
KW  - international relations
KW  - geography
KW  - politics
KW  - China
KW  - Russia
KW  - USA
KW  - regional cooperation
KW  - regional security
KW  - Central Asia
KW  - East Asia
KW  - foreign policy
N1  - SIP1208; Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-265) and index; Cooperation, ambiguity and tension -- The burden of history -- Strategic partnership: image and reality -- The "yellow peril," engagement in the Russian far East -- "Peaceful rise" and the shifting Sino-Russian balance -- Cooperation and competition in Central Asia -- East Asia-- arena of the great powers -- The geopolitics of energy -- The grand chessboard revisited-- Russia, China, and the United States -- Conclusion, from "strategic partnership" to strategic tension
ER  -