The Sino-Russian Challenge to the World Order

Although Sino-Russian rapprochement is hardly a recent development, it seems to have accelerated of late as Russia increasingly turns to China – financially, commercially and politically – in the wake of the Western sanctions imposed as a result of the Ukrainian crisis.

Any book on the subject is therefore timely. However, The Sino-Russian Challenge to the World Order by Gilbert Rozman is less about the Challenge of its title than the National Identities in its subtitle. Indeed, Rozman casts the subject almost entirely in the context of what he terms "national identity studies" and states in the introduction that the book has three objectives other than just a discussion on China and Russia, i.e.: