K. Matsuzato, ed., Regions: A Prism to View the Slavic-Eurasian
World, Proceedings of the July 1998 International Symposium at the SRC
(Sapporo:
SRC, 2000), 311 pp. In English.
Contents: K. Matsuzato, Preface; A.V.
Postnikov, Outline of the History of Russian Cartography; N.
Iakovenko, Early
Modern Ukraine Between East and West: Projecturies of an Idea; T.
Uyama
, The Geography of Civilizations: A Spatial Analysis of the Kazakh
Intelligentsia’s
Activities, from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century;
V.I.
Shishkin, State Administration of Siberia from the End of the
Nineteenth
Through the First Third of the Twentieth Centuries; S.I. Ryzhenkov,
The Golden Age of “Provincial Humanity” and Patterns of Regional
Development;
K. Matsuzato, Progressive North, Conservative South?: Reading
the
Regional Elite as a Key to Russian Electoral Puzzles; J.F. Young,
The Republic of Sakha and Republic Building: The Neverendum of
Federalization
in Russia; M.D. Kennedy, The Spatial Articulation of Identity
and
Social Problems: Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan Through Focus Groups;
P. Rutland, Comparative Economics and the Study of Russia’s
Regions;
A. Ponomarenko, Gross Regional Product for Russian Regions:
Compilation
Methods and Preliminary Results; S. Rosefielde, Unlocking
Northeast
Asia’s Development Potential: The Russian Paradox; S. De
Spiegeleire,
Gulliver’s Threads: Russia’s Regions and the Rest of the
World.
T. Murakami, S. Tabata, eds., Russian Regions: Economic Growth and
Environment,
Proceedings of the July 1999 International Symposium at the SRC
(Sapporo:
SRC, 2000), 428 pp. In English and Russian.
Contents: PART 1: REGIONAL ECONOMIES P. Hanson
, Understanding Regional Patterns of Economic Change in Post-Communist
Russia;
E. Gavrilenkov, Regional Peculiarities in Russia and
Inter-regional
Capital Flows; P. Rutland, The Regional Agenda in Alternative
Plans
for Russia’s Economic Development; M. Kuboniwa, A Note on the
Recent Economic Situation of Advanced Regions in Russia; N. Arai
and A. Belov,
Characteristics of the Budget System of the Sakhalin Oblast in
1996-1998
(in Russian); V. Rudenko, Economic and Legal Responses to the
Demands
of Modernization in the Ural Region (in Russian with its abstract in
English);
V. Gimpelson and G. Monusova, Public Employment
and Redistributive
Politics in Russian Regions; S. Ohtsu, Characteristics of
the Russian
Regional Labour Market. PART 2: REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT T. Sawa,
How
to Design and Operate the Kyoto Mechanisms; T. Akaha and A.
Vassilieva, Environmental Consciousness in Sakhalin: Background and
Views on the Sakhalin
Offshore Oil-Gas Development; G. Borovskoi, Popular Attitudes
Towards
Economic Reform in Sakhalin (in Russian); A. Nachetkina,
Defense
of the Primordial Habitat and Traditional Ways of Life for
Small-in-Number
Native Peoples of the North Sakhalin Oblast amidst the Development in
the
Continental Shelf (in Russian); E. Wilson, Conflict or Compromise?
Traditional
Natural Resource Use and Oil Exploitation in Northeastern
Sakhalin/Noglikskii
District; V. Kalashnikov, The Russian Far East and Northeast
Asia:
Aspects of Energy Demand and Supply Cooperation; H. Kitagawa,
The
Environmental Effects of Development in the Angaro-Yenisei Region;
R.
Steiner, Oil Spills: Lessons from Alaska for Sakhalin; A.
Leonov, Oil and Gas Development on the Sakhalin Island Shelf: An
Assessment of Changes
in the Okhotsk Sea Ecosystem; Y. Satow, Physical Conditions
of the
Environment and the Resident Population of the Semipalatinsk Area;
M.
Nomura, Water Usage and the Feasibility of Water Fees Along the
Lower
Reaches of the Ili River: The Case of Bereke Village; B. Islamov,
Doubling Freshwater Inflow is the Key to Curbing the Aral Sea
Crisis.
O. Ieda, ed., The Emerging Local Governments in Eastern Europe and
Russia:
Historical and Post-Communist Developments (Hiroshima: Keisuisha,
2000).
In English.
Contents: O. Ieda, Introduction to the Emerging
Local Governments in Eastern Europe and Russia; Chapter I. K.
Matsuzato
, Local Reforms in Ukraine 1990-1998: Elite and Institutions; Chapter
II.
M. Sengoku, Local Government and the State: Change and
Continuity
of the Local System in Poland; Chapter III. O. Ieda, Local
Government
in Hungary; Chapter IV. Y. Sato, The Local System of the Czech
Republic;
Chapter V. S. Nagayo, The System of Local Administration in
Slovakia;
Chapter VI. T. Nakajima, Local Government in Romania; Chapter VII. S.
Ishida,
Local Governments in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Slovenia; Chapter
VIII.
Ch. Oba, Local Government in the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia
since 1995; Chapter IX. M. Kimura, An Analysis of Local
Government
in Bulgaria; Chapter X. K. Nagatsuna, The Foundation of Local
Self-government
in Post-Soviet Russia from Soviet-type to Mayorship-type Local
Democracy.
K. Matsuzato, ed., The Modern Politics of Ukraine, Slavic
Research Center Occasional Papers, No.68 (Sapporo: SRC, 2000), 65 pp.
In Japanese.
T. Mochizuki, ed., The Frontier in Studies of Postmodern
Literature
(1), Slavic Research Center Occasional Papers, No.70 (Sapporo: SRC,
2000),
145 pp. In Japanese.
T. Murakami, ed., “Economic Development and the Environment” on
the
Sakhalin Offshore Oil and Gas Fields II, Slavic Research Center
Occasional Papers, No.71 (Sapporo: SRC, 2000), 180 pp. In English and
Russian.
T. Murakami, ed., “Economic Development and the Environment”
on
the Sakhalin Offshore Oil and Gas Fields III, Slavic Research Center
Occasional
Papers, No.72 (Sapporo: SRC, 2000), 40 pp. In Japanese.
T. Murakami, ed., “Economic Development and the Environment” on
the
Sakhalin Offshore Oil and Gas Fields IV, Slavic Research Center
Occasional
Papers, No.73 (Sapporo: SRC, 2000), 53 pp. In Japanese.
K. Matsuzato, ed., Introduction to the Russian-Islamic World,
Slavic Research Center Occasional Papers, No.74 (Sapporo: SRC, 2000),
71 pp. In Japanese.
S. Tabata, ed., Inter-Regional Flows of Financial Resources in
Russia (2), Slavic Research Center Occasional Papers, No.75
(Sapporo: SRC, 2000),
63 pp. In Japanese. Slavic Studies, No.47, 2000. Journal of the SRC. 398 pp. In
Japanese. Acta Slavica Iaponica, Volume XVIII, 2000 will be published by
January,
2001.
M. Osuga, ed., Nominal List of Researchers in the Field of Slavic
and
East European Affairs (6th edition)(Sapporo: SRC, 2000), 233 pp.
In Japanese.
Hiroshi Kimura, Distant Neibors, Japanese-Russian Relations Under
Brezhnev
and Andropov (volume 1), Japanese-Russian Relations Under Gorbachev and
Yeltsin (volume 2) (NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000).