ID | 144024 |
Title Proper | Eurasia's coming anarchy |
Other Title Information | the risks of Chinese and Russian weakness |
Language | ENG |
Author | Kaplan, Robert D |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | As China asserts itself in its nearby seas [1] and Russia wages war in Syria [2] and Ukraine, it is easy to assume that Eurasia’s two great land powers are showing signs of newfound strength. But the opposite is true: increasingly, China and Russia flex their muscles not because they are powerful but because they are weak. Unlike Nazi Germany, whose power at home in the 1930s fueled its military aggression abroad, today’s revisionist powers are experiencing the reverse phenomenon. In China and Russia, it is domestic insecurity that is breeding belligerence. This marks a historical turning point: for the first time since the Berlin Wall fell [3], the United States finds itself in a competition among great powers. |
`In' analytical Note | Foreign Affairs Vol. 95, No.2; Mar-Apr 2016: p.33-41 |
Journal Source | Foreign Affairs Vol: 95 No 2 |
Key Words | Economic Conditions ; Chinese ; Economic Turmoil ; Eurasia's Coming Anarchy ; Russian Weakness |