Evaluation of Possibility Assessment of Russia - China Cooperation on Atlanticism (2011-2021)

Subject Areas : علوم سیاسی

Miad Sadeghi ¹ , گارینه کشیشیان سیرکی ² , Mohammadreza Ghaedi ³

1 - Department of Political Science & International Relations, Kish International Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kish Island, Iran
2 - Department of Political Science and International Relations, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Political Science, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

Received: 2022-06-13 Accepted : 2022-07-20 Published : 2022-08-30

Keywords: Russia, the United States, China, Cooperation, Atlanticism, NATO expansion to the East, the balance of threats,

Abstract :

The expansion of NATO to the East under the policies of Atlanticism is one of the current issues of international relations, which has a lot to think about for the countries involved in this policy, their neighbors and the international order. After the expansion of NATO to the east, what will happen in the spheres of influence of NATO and the neighboring countries of those spheres and the conditions created, causes predictions in this field; One of them is the evaluation of the feasibility of cooperation between China and Russia with their own special conditions against this action, that is, Atlanticism. After experiencing many ups and downs in China-Russia relations, these two countries have gradually expanded their comprehensive cooperation since the mid-1990s. In the meantime, the expansion of NATO to the east is one of the important political, military and security issues that has led to the expression of common concern. And at the same time, the cooperation and positions of the two countries have come closer, especially towards the policies and actions of America and even Europe. Russia's concern about the presence of NATO in its borders and China's concern about the close military cooperation of the West with Taiwan have caused the two countries to work harder for mutual cooperation and their development fields. The concept of new Atlanticism provides a framework for analyzing security and normative challenges facing Europe and the world. This work and many similar works emphasize the fact that the behavior of America and its allies in the international system has become the basis for the creation of various coalitions and alliances. From the perspective of this research and emphasizing the threat balance theory, when the hegemon country and its allies create threats, or show threatening behaviors; They will create coalitions and alliances. In this article, an attempt was made to discuss the feasibility of expanding cooperation between China and Russia against Atlanticism by using the theoretical framework of threat balance. And the topic of these cooperation was examined according to the concepts, general capabilities such as (population, economic power, military power, etc.), geographical proximity, offensive capabilities and offensive intentions from the perspective of the threat balance theory.