Elizabeth Wishnick is associate professor of political science at Montclair State University and adjunct associate research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Maps
Introduction
Part I. Brezhnev's Containment Policy
The Soviet Union's China Strategy
The Sino-Soviet Conflict in Perspective
Part II. The Road to Beijing
Leadership Change in the USSR and Sino-Soviet Relations
Pressures for Continuity and Change in Soviet China Policy in the Early 1980s
From Rapprochment to Normalization
The Gorbachev Revolution and China Policy
Part III. Toward Sino-Russian Partnership
Sino-Russian Relations in the Yeltsin Era
Moscow and Border Regions Debate Russia's China Policy
Conclusions
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Elizabeth Wishnick is associate professor of political science at Montclair State University and adjunct associate research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.