TY - BOOK AU - SANGTU Ko TI - Strategic partnership in a unipolar system : : the Sino- Russian relationship PY - 2006/// KW - CHINA KW - RUSSIA KW - STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP N2 - This paper examines post-cold war Sino-Russian cooperation to explain why strategic partnership evolve within the current uniplolar geopolitical system. Analysis shows that primarily the unipolar system created by the U.S. preponderance of power affects the pattern of cooperation as China and Russia believe alliance against the only superpower would be effective ER -