What drives Russia’s relationship with its near neighbours (the former Soviet space) and with China? Required reading: (that you have to do lit review on) 1. Alexander Cooley (2017), ‘Whose rules, whose sphere? Russian governance and influence in post-Soviet states’, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Task Force White Paper. 2. Nadege Rolland (2019), ‘A China-Russia Condominium over Eurasia’, Survival, 61(1), pp. 7-22 Instruction: The objective of the critical literature reviews is to help students develop further their critical reading and analytical skills before submitting the final coursework essay.
Moreover, with much of the teaching and learning happening online and off-campus during the Covid-19 Pandemic, the three shorter pieces of coursework are intended to encourage continuous engagement with the module and material throughout the term. For each critical literature review we expect you to review the two core readings of one module week.
