著者

Bitabarova Assel

出版者

Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University

雑誌

Eurasia Border Review (ISSN:18849466)

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vol.6, no.1, pp.63-81, 2015

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This article examines the Tajik-Chinese border settlement and Tajik debates over it, both of which have yet to be extensively examined by either domestic or foreign scholarship. The long-standing territorial dispute between China and Tajikistan in the remote Pamir Mountains finally came to an end in January of 2011 with the ratification of the Tajik-Chinese Border Demarcation Protocol. Although the peaceful border settlement has laid the foundations for friendship between the two neighbours, Tajik attitudes varied significantly among different interest groups, ranging from overt opposition to overt support of the demarcation protocol.

著者

Yara Tomohiro

出版者

Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University

雑誌

Eurasia Border Review (ISSN:18849466)

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vol.3, no.2, pp.119-131, 2012

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The issue of the U.S. military bases in Okinawa has been a pawn in relations between the U.S. and Japan. Both sides seem to have been reluctant to find a real solution to the issue. This is because the solution would inevitably result in a reduced force presence in Okinawa and open a discussion on Japan's security weaknesses. It would raise questions such as: Should Japan revise article nine of its constitution? Should Japan have nuclear weapons? These are heavy topics for post-war Japan and no one seems keen to break the seal on these issues. The issue over the bases had therefore hardly been discussed until former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama raised the issue. However, his failure to relocate the Futenma marine base led directly to his resignation. This report tries to change the view of Okinawa bases as a diplomatic "pawn" and instead to use them as a practical tool to open a new horizon in U.S.-Japan relations. This author proposes a solution that changes the terms of the debate into a win-win situation for both the Japanese government and Okinawa.

著者

Chang Jon K.

出版者

Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University

雑誌

Eurasia Border Review (ISSN:18849466)

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vol.9, no.1, pp.45-65, 2018

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This study focuses on the Chinese-Lenin School (also the acronym CLS) and how the Soviet state used the CLS and other tertiary institutions in the Russian Far East to recruit East Asians into Soviet intelligence during the 1920s to the end of 1945. Typically, the Chinese and Korean intelligence agents of the USSR are presented with very few details with very little information on their lives, motivations and beliefs. This article will attempt to bridge some of this “blank spot” and will cover the biographies of several East Asians in the Soviet intelligence services, their raison d’etre, their world view(s) and motivations. The basis for this new study is fieldwork, interviews and photographs collected and conducted in Central Asia with the surviving relatives of six East Asian former Soviet intelligence officers. The book, Chinese Diaspora in Vladivostok, Second Edition [Kitaiskaia diaspora vo Vladivostoke, 2-е izdanie] which was written in Russian by two local historians from the Russian Far East also plays a major role in this study’s depth, revelations and conclusions.

著者

Golunov Serghei

出版者

Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University

雑誌

Eurasia Border Review (ISSN:18849466)

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vol.7, no.1, pp.31-50, 2016

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The paper focuses on the Russia-U.S. cross-border area that lies in the Bering Sea region. Employing the concept of geographical proximity, I argue that the U.S.-Russian proximity works in a limited number of cases and for relatively few kinds of actors, such as companies supplying Chukotka with American goods, border guards conducting rescue operations, organizers of environmental projects and cruise tours, and aboriginal communities. The impressive territorial proximity between Asia and North America induces ambitious and sometimes widely advertised official and public desires of conquering the spatial divide, promoted by extreme travellers and planners of transcontinental tunnel or bridge projects. At the same time, cooperation is seriously hindered by limited economic potential of the Russian North-East, weakness of transportation networks, harsh climate, and pervasive alarmist sentiments on the Russian side of the border.

著者

Radchenko Sergey

出版者

Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University

雑誌

Eurasia Border Review (ISSN:18849466)

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vol.3, no.Special Issue, pp.9-31, 2012

著者

Menkiszak Marek

出版者

Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University

雑誌

Eurasia Border Review (ISSN:18849466)

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vol.6, no.1, pp.83-102, 2015

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This paper examines the contemporary border between Ukraine and Russia as a case study of Russia’s approach to its borders. Two research questions are addressed: Firstly, what does the annexation of Crimea by Russia as well as its attempts to further undermine Ukraine’s territorial integrity in its eastern region of Donbas say about Russia’s peculiar approach to Ukraine and its borders? Secondly Whether and To what extent does Russia’s approach represent a broader pattern of Russia’s policy towards its borders? This paper is divided into three parts: the first part gives a brief account of the modern history of the Russian-Ukrainian border; the second part focuses on peculiar Russian approaches to Ukraine revealed during the current Russian-Ukrainian crisis; the third part puts “the Ukrainian case” into broader conceptual frameworks. This paper concludes that Russia’s recognition of the territorial integrity and the borders of the post-Soviet states is conditional and depends mainly on their participation in Russia-led integration projects.

著者

Hashimoto Tsutomu

出版者

Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University

雑誌

Eurasia Border Review (ISSN:18849466)

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vol.5, no.2, pp.99-119, 2014

著者

Jacob Happymon

出版者

Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University

雑誌

Eurasia Border Review (ISSN:18849466)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2, no.1, pp.17-34, 2011