本新学術領域研究の英語での最後の大イベントとなる第7回国際シンポジウム “From Empire to Regional Power, between State and Non-state”（帝国から地域大国へ、国家と非国家の間で）を、2012年7月4～6日に開催します。第2班（内政）、第5班（社会）の協力で予定されているセッションは次の通りです。［松里］
※なお、7月7日（土）午後には、新学術領域研究第6回全体集会が予定されています。
From Empire to Regional Power, between State and Non-state
会場：北海道大学スラブ研究センター 4階大会議室
7月4日（水） International Workshop of Young Scholars
Keiji Sato, Hokkaido University
Dareg Zabarah, Humboldt University “Autocephaly: A Delayed Transition
from Empire to National State”
Nikola Mirilovic, University of Central Florida
Commemorative Lecture
Theodore Weeks, Southern Illinois University “City, Cultures, Empire:
Vilnius in the Russian Empire and USSR”
7月5日（木） Opening Speeches
Session I: Empires and Political Geography
司会： Ozan Arslan, Izmir University of Economics
報告者： Empires and Seas/Oceans: Charles King, Georgetown University “Can
Seas Have Histories?” Empires and Steppe: Jin Noda, Waseda University Empires
and Mountains: Moshe Gammer, Tel Aviv University “Mountains of Copper,
Men of Steel: Russia confronting the Mountains”
Session II: Religious Politics and Transnationalism
司会： Kimitaka Matsuzato, Hokkaido University
報告者： Norihiro Naganawa, Hokkaido University “Drawing Russia as a Muslim Power? The Hajj from Tatarstan and Daghestan in the Post-Soviet Era” Sana Haroon, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan “Muslim Transnationalism in the Twentieth Century: India, Pakistan and Afghanistan” Dumitru Cotelea, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania “The Issue of the Russian Canonical Territory between Ecclesiology and Geopolitics”
討論者： So Yamane, Osaka University
Session III: Conflicts Spanning the Regional Powers’ Peripheries and “Near
Abroad”
司会： Keiji Sato, Hokkaido University
報告者： The Caucasia: Arsene Saparov, Michigan University “Arbitrary Borders?
The Bolsheviks and the Making of Borders in the South Caucasus in the 1920s”
Xinjiang: David Brophy, Australian National University “Russian Muslim
Writing on Xinjiang in the Pre-revolutionary Period” India: Kazuya Nakamizo,
Kyoto University “Peripheries Creating the ‘Indian’ Nation: The Border
and Muslim Problems Revisited”
討論者： Keiichi Kubo, Waseda University
7月6日（金）
Session IV: Competitive Authoritarianism: Theoretical Challenges
報告者： Barbara Junisbai, Pitzer College “Unpacking the ‘Competition’: Variation
in Political Opposition under Competitive (and Not-So-Competitive) Post-Soviet
Authoritarianism” Ayame Suzuki, Fukuoka Women’s University “Strong Institutions
and Weak Incumbents: Asian Competitive Authoritarianism as an Exception?”
Atsushi Ogushi, Osaka University of Economics and Law “Has Regional Politics
Lost Meaning Under competitive Authoritarianism?: Russia and Ukraine” Fumiki
Tahara, University of Tokyo “Are There Differences between Competitive
Authoritarianism and Democratic Clientelism? Questions from the Community
Level”
討論者： Atsushi Ishida, University of Tokyo
Session V: Regime Change or Regime Dynamics?: Comparative Study of Backlashes
司会： Yang Cheng, East China Normal University
報告者： Georgia: Cory Welt, George Washington University “Institutional Reform and Single-Party Rule in Georgia” Ukraine: Olexy Haran, Kievo-Mohyla Academy University “From the Orange Revolution to Russian Model of ‘Stability’?” Kyrgyzstan: Tomohiko Uyama, Hokkaido University “Party Politics and Premier-Presidentialism in Kyrgyzstan after the Second Revolution: Order in Disorder”
討論者： Hirotake Maeda, Tokyo Metropolitan University Session VI: Authoritarian
Leaders and Discourses in Regional Powers
報告者： Tang Liang, Waseda University “One Party System’s Strategy for Survival: Promotion and Screening of Political Elites in China” Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Miami University “The Power of Ideas in Russia’s Real Politics”
新学術領域研究が発行する研究報告集『比較地域大国論集』の第8号として、デイヴィッド・ウルフ編『同盟と国境：地域大国を規定するもの』が 発行されました。本号は、昨年7月にスラブ研究センターでおこなわれた国際シンポジウム
“Alliances and Borders in the Making and Unmaking of Regional Powers” の報告要旨（日本語）と、スラブ研究センター共同研究員の鶴見太郎氏（日本学術振興会特別研究員PD）によるシンポジウム全体の報告書が掲載されています。本書は新学術領域研究のウェブサイトからダウンロードできます。
本書は、新学術領域研究ウェブサイトの出版のページからダウンロードできます。
