21st Century COE Program Slavic Eurasian Studies Japanese / English
    Emerging Meso-Areas in the Former
          Socialist Countries: 
          Histories Revived or Improvised?
    
  
Copyright (c) 2005 by the Slavic Research Center( Japanese / English ) All rights reserved.
 
      
          Contents
        
    
| PREFACE (Kimitaka
                Matsuzato) | 
          
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| PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING MESO-AREAS | ||||
| 1. | 
          REGIONAL IDENTITIES AND MESO-MEGA AREA DYNAMICS IN SLAVIC EURASIA: FOCUSED ON EASTERN EUROPE | |||
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             19 
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| 2. | 
          ON SAILS AND GALES, AND SHIPS
            DRIVING IN VARIOUS DIRECTIONS: POST-SOVIET UKRAINE AS A TEST CASE FOR THE MESO-AREA CONCEPT  | 
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             42 
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          THE STUDY OF MESO- AND MEGA-AREA DYNAMICS: METHODOLOGICAL AND EMPIRICAL CONSIDERATIONS | |||
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             69 
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| 4. | 
          TATARS AS MESO-NATION | 
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| PART II: A MESO-AREA OF REFORM SLACKERS OR THROES OF CREATION? - UKRAINE, BELARUS, AND MOLDOVA | ||||
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          MOLDOVA AND THE POLITICS OF MESO-AREAS | |||
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             93 
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          UKRAINIAN GAS TRADERS, DOMESTIC CLANS AND RUSSIAN FACTORS: A TEST CASE FOR MESO-MEGA AREA DYNAMICS | |||
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          WILL THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT COUNTERBALANCE SUPERPRESIDENTIALISM? | |||
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          PECULIARITIES OF THE INTEGRATION PROCESS BETWEEN BELARUS AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ASPECTS | |||
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             155 
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| 9. | 
          THE REPRESENTATION OF THE BELARUSIAN LANGUAGE IN CONTEMPORARY BELARUSIAN LITERATURE | |||
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| PART III: ISLAM IN DAGESTAN: GRAVITY FROM OUTSIDE AND INTERNAL COHESION OF A EURASIAN REGION | ||||
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          DAGESTAN’S APPROACH TO THE ISLAMIC MEGA-AREA? THE POTENTIALS AND LIMITS OF JIHADISM | |||
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          ALIEN BUT LOYAL: REASONS FOR THE “UNSTABLE STABILITY” OF DAGESTAN, AN OUTPOST OF SLAVIC EURASIA | |||
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| PART IV: BOOMING RUSSIAN IMPERIOLOGY AND THE CONCEPTS OF MESO- AND MEGA-AREAS | ||||
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          BETWEEN IMPERIAL TEMPTATION AND ANTI-IMPERIAL FUNCTION IN EASTERN EUROPEAN POLITICS: POLAND FROM THE EIGHTEENTH TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY | |||
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| 13. | 
          THE MOST EUROPEAN SCIENCE IN RUSSIA: DEFINING THE EMPIRE ANTHROPOLOGICALLY | |||
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| 14. | 
          FROM ETHNOCENTRIC TO CIVIC HISTORY: CHANGES IN CONTEMPORARY LITHUANIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES | |||
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| PART V: MESO-AREAS FACING GLOBALIZATION | ||||
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          EMPIRE OR POST-EMPIRE? THE CONCEPT OF “LONG CENTURY” AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBALIZATION | |||
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          ABKHAZIA UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THE DIVISION OF THE WORLD | |||
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          IS IT EASY TO GLOBALIZE THE WORLD? THE EXPANSION OF THE SCHENGEN TERRITORY AND FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT IN A WIDER EUROPE | |||
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          OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITS OF SELF-CREATION AND IDENTITY POLITICS: TATARSTAN’S PARADIPLOMATIC PROJECT | |||
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21st Century COE Program Slavic Eurasian Studies Japanese / English
Copyright (c) 2005 by the Slavic Research Center( Japanese / English ) All rights reserved.