The Background of Russia's Joining the APEC and Russian Policy toward the APEC Jae-You Lee, Jae-Young Lee As Russia has joined the APEC this year, it would have an important effect not only on the APEC itself but also on Korea. The purpose of this research is to make a contribution for Korean government to establish the desirable policy toward both Russia and the APEC in the future, by examining the background of Russia's joining the APEC and its policy toward APEC.

For this purpose, we will examine the background of Russia's joining the APEC in terms of change of Russian foreign economic policies in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3, first, we will examine what kinds of organizations the former Soviet Union/Russia had operated in order to join the APEC before it became a member of the APEC. The situation of Russia's economic cooperation with other member nations of the APEC will also be examined, focussing on the size of international trade and investments cooperation of Russia in the APEC forum. And then, we will examine the direction of Russian policy toward the APEC in various aspects since its entry to the APEC. Finally, the significance of Russia's admission to the APEC will be contemplated and the prospects of its effect on the APEC will be presented in Chapter 4.

The major motivations of Russia's joining the to APEC are as follows: First, in order to increase Russia's role and influences for overall political, economic processes in the Asia-Pacific area. Second, in order to increase Russia's international cooperation with the nations of the Asia-Pacific area in terms of mutually beneficial trade, investments and cooperation in scientific technology. Third, in order to create a favorable precondition for Russia to solve the socio-economic problems in Siberia and the Far-Eastern area.

Evaluating the APEC highly since activities of its member nations are fairly open and voluntary and it covers broad range of activities such as Liberalization of trade and investments, econo-technological cooperation, Russia looks upon the APEC as a very efficient mechanism for actual and multilateral cooperation in this area. Russia regards energy, transportation, communications, telecommunications, investments cooperation, human resources and economic, technological cooperation as the major promising fields for multilateral cooperation through the APEC.
Russia's entry to the APEC can help to strengthen the military, political security in the Asia-Pacific area and move the center of activities of the APEC to Asia, especially North East Asia. Furthermore, it can offer a more favorable situation to the developing nations in the APEC that are more interested in technological cooperation, controlling the advanced nations such as the U. S. A. that intend to put priority on trade liberalization among the major objectives of the APEC.
However, despite Russia's firm declaration that it would be faithful to the basic principles of the APEC, it seems that Russia's joining the APEC has been significant only in a political aspect, not in an economic aspect, so far. So, Russia's entry to the APEC cannot have fundamental influences on the APEC economically for a while.

In the future, Korea should make more aggressive efforts to produce favorable conditions for economic cooperation with Russia at multilateral levels through the APEC as well as to increase mutual cooperation with Russia at a bilateral level. Korea should not neglect the cooperation in natural resources and energy to which Russia gives priority, and should give more attention to get technology transfer from Russia.

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Ⅰ. 서론

Ⅱ. 러시아의 APEC 가입 배경
1. 대외정책의 변화
2. 아태지역 협력의 중요성
3. APEC의 가입에 대한 기존 회원국의 입장

Ⅲ. 러시아의 對 APEC 정책
1. 구소련/러시아의 APEC 관련 조직구도 및 활동
2. APEC 회원국과의 경제교류 현황
3. 러시아의 對 APEC 정책 방향

Ⅳ. 결론: 전망 및 시사점

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