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The aim of this volume is to contribute to an ongoing discussion on the scope and meaning of Russian-Chinese cooperation since 2014, the year Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. During the past few years, the number of research projects on Sino-Russian cooperation at Western think tanks has markedly increased, complementing a likewise increasing number of monographs and edited volumes that had begun to appear on related topics during the preceding years. The present volume is the result of a research project that began in 2019 as an outgrowth of the Foundation for Science and Democracy’s (SWuD) project “Global Transformation and German Foreign Policy” that was overseen by Joachim Krause and Svenja Sinjen. In order to explore the new dynamics created by the increasing rapprochement of China and Russia—two Eurasian great powers that had emerged as the prime challengers of the US-dominated postwar order—the editors of this volume decided to focus on the bilateral relationship between Russia and China and its impact on their joint power to challenge the West. In late 2019, we began to convene an international group of experts on Russia, China, and international security affairs to initiate a process of fact-finding in various fields of Sino-Russian cooperation. The goal was to capture the multifaceted and, as we expected, far from uniform empirical reality of Sino-Russian coordination along and within various strategically relevant fields. The focus of our research lay primarily, but not exclusively, on the security and military domains of Sino-Russian cooperation, as well as on fields that can be assumed to hold strategic importance for either of the two countries—fields where significant vulnerabilities exist that are relevant for ensuring regime survival, or where both countries can be expected to see a high potential for disruptive, anti- Western “grey zone” activity. In mid-January 2020, we convened a 2-day international fact-finding workshop in Berlin that was attended by 24 experts from 8 countries representing 14 institutions as subject matter contributors and 11 officials from 3 different countries as participants and discussants. Directly afterward, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) convened a panel discussion in Berlin and another closed workshop for European and NATO officials in Brussels where the results of the Berlin workshop, and in particular the military-strategic analyses, were presented and discussed. In the aftermath of these workshop discussions, we decided to make the key findings of our research process available to the public and present as many of the empirical case studies that these assessments were based on as possible. Some of the chapter authors in the present volume were in attendance at the 2020 Berlin workshop and took its intense discussions into account when finalizing their contributions to the present volume. Other contributions to this book were commissioned later in the process with an aim of covering as broad a spectrum of relevant research topics as possible under the circumstances, with authors writing from different regional, professional, and institutional angles.