1. Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives (New York: Basic Books, 1997), ch. 4
2. David Kerr, ‘Chinese Relations with the Russian Far East’, in Michael J. Bradshaw (ed.), The Russian Far East and Pacific Asia: Unfulßled Potential (Richmond: Curzon, 2001), pp. 182–3.
3. See Roland Dannreuther, ‘Russia, Central Asia and the Persian Gulf, Survival, 35/4 (1993–94), pp. 92–112
4. Irina Zviagelskaia, The Russian Policy Debate on Central Asia (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1995)
5. David Kerr, ‘The New Eurasianism: The Rise of Geopolitics in Russia’s Foreign Policy’, Europe-Asia Studies, 47/6 (1995), p. 982