... attention is attitudes towards a hostile neigh- nd the Palestinian rance, 2006; Ross, unique set of con- s; the three former ownership on the ive gains or losses. gion and the rest of the world especially given its belligerent leadership and nuclear capabilities (Bleiker, 2003; Hathaway and Tama, 2004...

... cooperation, Cold War hostility suited Taiwan and the Soviet Union more than collaboration. Taipei resorted to the ‘Soviet card’ in the 1970s to hinder Sino—American rapprochement, but never abandoned anti-Sovietism as the foundation of its diplomacy. The Soviet Union, for its part, prioritized normalization...