Status and Identity after the Cold War
Journal: Yale University Press eBooks
Year: 2019

This chapter analyzes the varying responses of China and Russia to the collapse of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union—the most serious threats to Chinese and Russian identities and status since the First World War. Frustrated with lack of recognition and respect by the United States and other Western powers, both China and Russia briefly pursued policies of social competition, but learned that efforts to compete with the United States were embarrassingly futile. China and Russia then