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International Workshop on 22-23 February

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On 22-23 February 2007, an international workshop "Russia as a Regional Power: Its International Status and Elections in 2007-2008" was held at the SRC. Both established and young scholars from Russia, US, UK, Germany, and, of course, Japan participated in the workshop's lively discussions.

Facing the resurgence of Russia as a new pole of the world, the workshop aimed to reconsider Russian political and economic regimes, and its international relations, including neighbor "unrecognized" states. Many papers featured the clientelistic structure of Russian politics and economy, and the papers' quality and the discussions evoked responses from foreign scholars such as "excellent," "extraordinarily engaging," and "a tremendous learning experience." As Russia was on the eve of the parliamentary and presidential elections, the workshop was an ideal opportunity to look into the prospects for Russia after the elections.

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Speakers at the Workshop

• Vladimir Gel'man (European Univ., St. Petersburg) "The Transformation of Russia's Party System and Prospects for Dominant Party Building in Russia"
• Ogushi Atsushi (SRC) "From an Ad Hoc Party of Power to a Government-Party Regime: 'United Russia' in Perspective"
• Adachi Yuko (Sophia Univ., Tokyo) "Observations on Russia's Long-Standing Efforts to Reform its Subsoil Regime"
• Paul Goode (Univ. of Oklahoma) "The Regional Dimension of Russia's 2007-2008 Elections"
• Arai Yukiyasu (SRC) "Reversing the 'Affirmative Action Empire'? A Study on 'Special Status' in Newly Formed Federal Subjects"
• Tomila Lankina (De Montfort Univ., Leicester) "A Geographic Incremental Theory of Democratization: Territory, Aid, and Democracy in Post-Communist Regions"
• Hase Naoya (Keio Univ., Tokyo) "Federalism and the Politics of Pipeline Construction in Russia: The Case of the East Siberia-Pacific Oil Pipeline"
• Vitaly Yermakov (Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Moscow) "Russian Energy Outlook"
• Motomura Masumi (Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Tokyo) "Russian Energy Outlook from the Viewpoint of East Asia"
• Konno Yugo (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo/ Mizuho Research Institute, Tokyo) "Russian Oil and Gas as Part of Trade Relations with CIS Countries"
• Sergey Radchenko (Pittsburg State Univ.) "Perestroika and Japan"
• Konstantin Sarkisov (Yamanashi Gakuin Univ., Kofu) "Retrospective Review of the Two-island Compromise Formula and Some Questions of Dispute Resolution Methodology"
• Oleh Protsyk (European Center for Minority Issues, Flensburg) "Addressing the Transnistrian Conflict: Stance of Moldova’s Political Parties and Expert Community"
• Sato Keiji (Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka) "A Comparative Analysis of the Regional Potentiality of the 'Unrecognized' Autonomous Regions: the cases of Gagauzia, Pridnester, and the Polish-Lithuanian region"
• Hirose Yoko (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies, Tokyo) "Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh: Focusing on the Political Perspective"

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