Retracted: Russia's foreign policy priorities in the Asia‐Pacific region

• Published date: 01 February 2023
• Author: Oanh Thi Hoang Nguyen,Ilia Aksenov,Nhuan Thi Phan,Tatyana Sakulyeva
• Date: 01 February 2023
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2745

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Russia's foreign policy priorities in the Asia-Pacific region

Oanh Thi Hoang Nguyen

1,2

| Ilia Aksenov

3

| Nhuan Thi Phan

4,5

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Tatyana Sakulyeva

6

1

Department of Political Analysis and

Management, Faculty of Humanities and Social

Sciences, Рeoples' Friendship University of

Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russia

2

Department of Ho Chi Minh's Ideology,

Academy of Politics Region II, Ho Chi Minh,

Viet Nam

3

Department of State Law and Customs

Administration, Vladimir State University

named after Alexander Grigoryevich and

Nikolai Grigoryevich Stoletovs, Vladimir,

Russian Federation

4

Department of Comparative Political Science,

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,

Рeoples' Friendship University of Russia

(RUDN University), Moscow, Russia

5

Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities,

Vinh University, Vinh, Viet Nam

6

Department of Transportation Management,

State University of Management, Moscow,

Russia

Correspondence

Oanh Thi Hoang Nguyen, Department of

Political Analysis and Management, Faculty of

Humanities and Social Sciences, Рeoples'

Friendship University of Russia (RUDN

University), Miklukho-Maklaya str. 6, Moscow

117198, Russia.

Email: oanhthing@yahoo.com

Funding information

RUDN University Strategic Academic

Leadership Program

The study intends to develop an empirical vector model of Russia's foreign policy in

the Asia-Pacific region. In order to achieve this goal, based on the Foreign Policy

Principles of the Russian Federation for 2000–2016, the vectors of Russia's foreign

policy were determined, and the place of the Asia-Pacific region in Russia's foreign

policy was outlined. Using data from the World Bank's World Integrated Trade Solu-

tion, Russia's key economic partners in the Asia-Pacific region were identified. Infor-

mation on GDP growth rates and inflation index trends shows that such partners are

Bangladesh, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. The authors developed the vec-

tor model of Russia's foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on economic

cooperation with the above-mentioned key partner countries. The proposed foreign

policy vector model will contribute to Russia's increased economic and political pres-

ence in the Asia-Pacific region, which is in line with Russia's foreign policy goals in

this region and will also have a positive effect on the development of the Russian

economy, particularly in the Far East. The limitation is that the proposed vector of

Russia's foreign policy development can be implemented in the absence of additional

international sanctions, which might target companies from the Asia-Pacific region.

KEYWORDS

economic development, foreign policy transformation, foreign trade vectors, Southeast Asia,

the Pacific region

1|INTRODUCTION

Over the past 20 years, the development of good-neighbour relations

and strategic partnership with all CIS member states remain the main

regional priority of Russia's foreign policy (according to the foreign

policy principles of the Russian Federation (2000,2008,2013,2016).

As confirmed by numerous foreign policy reports, the Asia-Pacific

region has never been a foreign policy priority for Russia (Ministry of

Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, 2021). The main focus was

predominantly set on the CIS countries, the development of the Eur-

asian Economic Union, and the European Union (EU) as central

Russia's partner in foreign trade (EU's share in Russia's foreign trade

averaged 40%) (World Bank, 2021). The integration with the West

has always been counterbalanced by disintegration trends due to the

different interests of the EU, the United States (US) and Russia. After

2014, relations with the EU and the US deteriorated significantly. As a

result, the US and EU's economic sanctions are shifting Russia's part-

nership focus from Western countries to the Asia-Pacific region. This

raises the question of what should the foreign policy model in

this region look like. There are many case studies on Russia's foreign

policy modelling, but the very matter of the Asia-Pacific region is

examined scantily.

Received: 27 April 2021 Revised: 30 July 2021 Accepted: 3 August 2021

DOI: 10.1002/pa.2745

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