Russia’s Summit with ASEAN: Pivot to the East?

• Main Author: Dave, Bhavna
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Global; South Asia; International Politics and Security; Country and Region Studies; East Asia and Asia Pacific; Non-Traditional Security; Southeast Asia and ASEAN
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80513; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40711
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Russia is hosting a summit in Sochi on 19-20 May 2016 to commemorate twenty years of its dialogue relations with ASEAN. It will explore further cooperation between the two in another affirmation of Russia’s growing ‘pivot to the east’ policy under President Vladimir Putin, concurrent with its fallin...