2006 Summer International Symposium in Japanese
Eager Eyes Fixed on Slavic Eurasia: Change and Progress
Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
On July 6-7, 2006
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July 6(Thursday) 9:30-18:00
9:30-10:00
Opening Addresses

HAYASHI Tadayuki (Vice-President of Hokkaido University, Japan)
MATSUZATO Kimitaka (Director of Slavic Research Center, Japan)
10:00-11:30
Opening Lecture: Eager Eyes Fixed on Eurasia 
Chair:
MATSUZATO Kimitaka (SRC, Japan)
Speaker:
Martha Brill OLCOTT (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, US)

"Eyes on Central Asia" (July 3 REVISED)

12:40-15:20
Session 1 : Russian Foreign Policy Reconsidered
Chair:
IEDA Osamu (SRC, Japan)
Papers:
Laszlo POTI (Institute for Strategic and Defense Studies, Hungary)

"The Rediscovered Backyard: Central Europe in the Russian Foreign Policy"

Mark KATZ (George Mason University, US)

"Russia's Security Challenges"

Tatiana ZAKAURTSEVA (Diplomatic Academy, Russia)

"Current Foreign Policy of Russia"

IWASHITA Akihiro (SRC, Japan)

"Primakov Redux? : Russia and the "Strategic Triangles" in Asia"
Commentator:
KO Sangtu (Yonsei University, Korea)

15:40-18:00
Session 2 : South Asia and Slavic Eurasia
Chair:
HAKAMADA Shigeki (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
Papers:
Nirmala JOSHI (India-Central Asia Foundation, India)

"India and Russia: Perspectives on Cooperation in Slavic Eurasia"

Fazal RAHMAN (Institute of Strategic Studies, Pakistan)

"Pakistan’s Evolving Relations with China, Russia and Central Asia"

YOSHIDA Osamu (Hiroshima University, Japan)

"Eurasia and South Asia in Their Global Context"
Commentator:
HYODO Shinji (National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan)

18:30-20:00: 
Reception at Sapporo Aspen Hotel

July 7 (Friday) 9:30-18:30
9:30-11:50
Session 3 : Central Asia: Crossroads in Eurasia
Chair:
UYAMA Tomohiko (SRC, Japan)
Papers:
Farkhod TOLIPOV (The National University of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan)

"Foreign Policy Orientations of the Central Asian states: Positive and Negative Diversification"

SUN Zhuangzhi (Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, China)

"Sino-Central Asian Relations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization"

YUASA Takeshi (National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan)

"Japan's Multilateral Approach toward Central Asia"
Commentator:
OKA Natsuko (Institute of Developing Economy, Japan) 

13:30-15:30
Session 4 : Challenge of Eurasian Border Cooperation: The Case of Sino-Russian Relations
Chair:
SHIMOTOMAI Nobuo (Hosei University, Japan)
Papers:
Dmitri RYABUSHKIN (Tavrida National University, Ukraine)

"Origins and Consequences of the Sino-Soviet Border Conflict of 1969"

SU Fenglin (Heilongjiang Academy of Social Science, China)

"Sino-Russian Relations: Past, Present and Future Perspectives"

Neville MAXWELL (Autralia)

"Nerchinsk 1689 to Vladivostok 2005 via Zhenbao 1969: The Sino-Russian Boundary Conflict"
Commentator:
ISHII Akira (University of Tokyo, Japan)

15:50-18:30
Session 5 : Russia and East Asia (Roundtable)
Moderator:
KIMURA Hiroshi (Takushoku University, Japan)
Papers:
HA Yongchool (Seoul National University, Korea)

"Russian Nonproliferation Policy and the Korean Peninsula"

FENG Shaolei (East China Normal University, China)

"Russia and Contemporary East Asia"

Sergey VRADIY (Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography of Far Eastern Nations, Russia)

"Russia-Taiwan Unofficial Relations"

YOKOTE Shinji (Keio University, Japan)

"Russo-Japanese relations in the new East Asian environment"
Commentator:
TAKAGI Seiichiro (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)


Organizing Committee of the 2006 COE Summer International Symposium:

IWASHITA Akihiro

ARAI Nobuo

FUKUDA Hiroshi
E-mail of organizing committee:

src@slav.hokudai.ac.jp
ses-coe@slav.hokudai.ac.jp

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