The Interaction Between China and Russia after the Collapse of the USSR: the Role of Shared Ideas in Paving the Way to Shanghai Declaration

Student: Guo Wanting

Supervisor: Mikhail Karpov

Faculty: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Educational Programme: Socioeconomic and Political Development of Modern Asia (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2019

The thesis provides an explanation on the development of the Sino- Russian relations after the collapse of the USSR in the 1990s from an ideational perspective. With the help of shared ideas as a entry point, the thesis explains how the identities and national interests were constituted in this period, based on which the thesis further explained how identities and national interests through two approaches, the mutual political trust building and the mutual participation in regional affairs, functioned leading to a cooperative result, the signing of the Shanghai Declaration.

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