title: Russia’s competing nationalisms and foreign relations with Asia
abstract: Is growing domestic nationalism influencing Russia’s foreign relations with its Asian neighbours? Many commentators identify an increasingly aggressive and expansionist Russian nationalism as a key influence on Russia’s foreign relations with the West (Clover, 2008; Cohen and Dale, 2010; Kramer, 2010). Even prior to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014, Moscow’s foreign policy was certainly becoming more assertive and diverging from the preferences of the United States and its European al