러시아의 동북아정책과 안보협력의 제도화

Abstract

The foreign policy of Russia traditi onally unfolded in two distinct theaters, the European and the Asian. But the primary attention and effort were directed to Europe, the significance of the Asian theater being remained on the whole subordinate, the results of which was the failure at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth and the relative trengthening of the America’s shadow during the Cold War. It was ironically after the demise of the Soviet Empire that Asia, which was seen as having its proper value and appreciated not from the comparative point of view with rope, revived in Russian foreign policy. Though without success, Gorbachev promoted a series of policies for multilateral security cooperation toward Northeast Asia. And Yeltsin and Putin respectively took concrete forms of this sort of policies in the course of building their own military strategy and diplomatic doctrines. Recently Russia is making efforts to identify herself with a broker or a guarantor for the Northeast Asian multilateral security system, which is seen improbable to be established for the time being because of the poverty of historical experience, the uniqueness of the Northeast Asian regional international system and nonexistence of common or collective security issues. Hope is not policy, and Russian foreign policy makers knows this very well. For the predictable future, herefore, they will search for the bilateral security partnership with each Northeast Asian countries, at least until the completion of their military reformation policy.