The interplay between domestic politics and foreign policy has long been a debating issue among scholars of international studies. This study focuses on the question of how political and ideological changes in the successor states of the former Soviet Union have affected their relations with the People's Republic of China, one of the few remaining communist countries in the world. The findings in this study show that relations between China and the successor states of the former Soviet Union have been affected least by ideology. These findings should not lead the reader to the conclusion that ideology does not matter in international relations, but rather, the author argues, that economic and geopolitical considerations tend to overshadow the ideological factor in relations among states.
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December 1994
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December 01 1994
Does Ideology Matter?: A Case Study of Sino-ex-Soviet Republics' Relations
Yang Zhong
Yang Zhong
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Department of Political Science, 1001 McClung Tower, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-0410, USA
* The author would like to thank Mr. Jianxin Huang and Ms. Allison Hughes for research assistance and Steven Jones and Luba Fajfer for commenting on an earlier draft of the manuscript.
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* The author would like to thank Mr. Jianxin Huang and Ms. Allison Hughes for research assistance and Steven Jones and Luba Fajfer for commenting on an earlier draft of the manuscript.
Communist and Post-Communist Studies (1994) 27 (4): 463–477.
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Yang Zhong; Does Ideology Matter?: A Case Study of Sino-ex-Soviet Republics' Relations. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 1 December 1994; 27 (4): 463–477. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/0967-067X/94/04/0463-15
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