jeffrey mankoff is Deputy Director and Fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of Russian Foreign Policy: he Return of Great Power Politics (2009) and a former adviser on U.S.-Russian relations at the U.S. Department of State. He can be reached at <jmankof@csis.org>. Russia’s Asia Pivot: Confrontation or Cooperation? Jefrey Mankof asia policy, number 19 (january 2015), 65–87 • http://asiapolicy.nbr.org • keywords: russia; china; energy; arms; siberia © he National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle, Washington