Russia's new 'pivot to Asia' increases the global significance of Russia's Siberia and Far East. Moscow's eastward turn is not only motivated by the growth of economic, strategic and political dynamism of Asia-Pacific. A more fundamental and far-reaching cause of Russia's withdrawal of its historic attraction to the West is the impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the United States and Europe and, as a consequence, a relative decline of the West's economic attractiveness. Given the current crisis in Ukraine, which has shed light upon the implications of a resurgent Russia and reshaped its relations with Asia Pacific, there has been growing interest amongst countries from the Asia-Pacific region in cooperating with Russia towards the development of Siberia and Russia's Far East. This timely edited collection includes chapters by internationally recognized experts from Russia, China, South Korea, Japan, Norway and Singapore. The contributors analyze political, economic, social and geostrategic roadblocks in the Russia/Asia Pacific relations, offering directions for further development.

Introduction: Russia's new pivot to Asia and potential for international cooperation / Alexander Korolev and Jing Huang -- Part 1: Russia's Far East and Siberia in a changing global landscape. Developing Russia's Far East and Siberia: the interplay of national, regional and global implications / Evgeny Kanaev -- Pacific Russia's energy resources in the geopolitics of Northeast Asia in the early 21st century / Victor Larin -- Post-Soviet trade, the Russia's Far East and the shift to Asia / Arne Melchior -- Part II: International cooperation in Russia's Far East and Siberia. China's approach to China-Russia cooperation in the development of Russia's Far East and Siberia / Pan Xingming -- Economic relations between Japan and the Russian Far East / Satoshi Sakai -- Russian Far East development and directions for improvement in Korean-Russian cooperation: Korea's perspective / Sung Hoon Jeh -- Singapore as a stakeholder in Russia's Far East development: an energy perspective / Chen Gang -- The Arctic from Singapore's perspective: a blessing or a curse? / Yang Fang -- Do national policies contribute to regional cross-border integration?: the case of the program of cooperation between Northeast China and Russia's Far East and Eastern Siberia (2009-2018) / Yang Cheng -- Joining Rosneft in the Sea of Okhotsk: Statoil's pivot to Asia? / Indra Overland.