The Sino-Russian military relations: why not yet an alliance? A neoclassical realist approach
Journal: DSpace repository (University of Tartu)
Year: 2020

The Sino-Russian military relations have attracted a great deal of attention since the 21st century. They have strengthened into a strategic military partnership but did not evolve into a full military alliance. The goal of this paper is to analyse how has the international environment pushed Russia and China to improve their military relations, and to underline which factors prevented the formation of a full military alliance. This study relies on the neoclassical realist theory, considered to