Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China: Domestic Dynamics and Foreign Policy Projections

Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China offers a thorough analysis of the profound regeneration of the State and its intense interaction with the external projections of Russia and China. In the international political scene, leaderships are under constant negotiation. Financial crisis, social and cultural transformations, values setting and migration flows have a deep impact on global powers, leading to the appearance of new actors. At present, the assumed rise of a new axis between two emerging powers, such as Russia and China, effaces their different backgrounds, leading to misinterpretations of their positioning in the geopolitical arena.
This book is an essential and multifaceted guide aimed at understanding the deep changes that affect these two countries and their global aspirations.

Contributors are: Marco Puleri; Andrea Passeri; Marco Balboni; Carmelo Danisi; Mingjiang Li; Mahalakshmi Ganapathy; Rosa Mulè; Olga Dubrovina; Evgeny Mironov; Yongshun Cai; Vasil Sakaev; Eugenia Baroncelli; Sonia Lucarelli; Nicolò Fasola; Stefano Bianchini; Stanislav Tkachenko; Vitaly Kozyrev; Marco Borraccetti; Francesco Privitera; Antonio Fiori, Massimiliano Trentin; Arrigo Pallotti; Giuliana Laschi; Michael Leigh.

Stefano Bianchini is Professor of East European Politics and History at the University of Bologna, Forlì Campus. He’s the Executive Editor of the journal Southeastern Europe (Brill). His latest book is Liquid Nationalism and State Partitions in Europe (Edward Elgar, 2017).

Antonio Fiori is Associate Professor of International Relations of East Asia at the Dept. of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna. His latest (edited) book is The Korean Paradox. Domestic Political Divide and Foreign Policy in South Korea (Routledge, 2019).