Coordination of Economic and Defense Activities in the Pacific Region

• Published in: EURASIAN INTEGRATION: economics, law, politics
• Main Author: S. Y. Kozmenko
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: President of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, North-West Institute of Management 2022
• Subjects: geopolitics; arctic zone of the russian federation; pacific region; maritime silk road; one belt — one road; Social Sciences; H; Finance; HG1-9999; Law; K; Economic theory. Demography; HB1-3840; Arctic; Indian; Pacific
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.22394/2073-2929-2021-04-40-48; https://doaj.org/article/3cc0a6f5cac64226b3e2ab9665a5e842

Europe — Eurasia — Asia. Each continent of the vast continent corresponds to a dominant continental power, respectively Germany — Russia — China; in one of them (China), in the zone of conjugation of the Eurasian and Asian continental civilizations, that is, in the Russian-Chinese borderland, a new regional entity is emerging and developing with the attributes of a maritime civilization.Aim. The aim of the study is to solve the scientific problem of matching the national interests of the two countries within this regional maritime space.Tasks. To achieve the goal of the study, the following tasks are being solved: to substantiate the structure of the allocated geopolitical entity and to identify the directions of interaction between the two countries on the basis of coordinating economic and defense activities in the Pacific region.Methods. In this work, the methodological tools of spatial economics and the theory of new economic geography are used, which make it possible to combine geopolitical and economic (geoeconomic) imperatives in a localized space when coordinating joint activities. The core of this formation is the three seas of the Pacific basin adjacent to the territory of China. However, China’s strategic interests extend further, to the north, into the water area of at least two Russian seas. Thus, Russia is also involved in joint maritime activities within the Pacific region.Results. As a result, this creates a space of common national interests, which covers the waters of the five seas and adjacent territories. The regional core of this formation tends to expand, north, east and south, and further west, into the Indian Ocean.Conclusion. The conclusions of the study are that the maritime (more precisely, naval) activities of the two continental powers are essentially becoming the basis of cooperation and cooperation between Russia and China, since Russia can contribute to the implementation of China’s vast national interests only in the defense sphere, providing, in addition, significant, political ...