PAMI AALTO is Jean Monnet professor
in the School of Management, University of Tampere, Finland. His work
on Russian energy includes the edited volumes Russia’s Energy Policy:
National, Interregional and Global Dimensions (Edward Elgar 2011/12)
and The EU—Russian Energy Dialogue: Europe’s Future Energy Security
(Ashgate 2007); in addition, he works on interdisciplinarity in
international studies.
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EDUARD BARYSHEV is a research
assistant at the Institute for North East Asian Research, Shimane
University. A specialist in the history of Russo-Japanese relations, he
is the author of Nichiro dōmei no jidai, 1914-1917: ‘Reigaitekina yūkō’
no shinsō [The Epoch of Russo-Japanese Alliance, 1914–1917: The Truth
About an ‘Exceptional Friendship’] (Fukuoka, 2007).
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KIKUTA HARUKA is a research fellow
of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the Slavic
Research Center. Her recent publication is “A Master is Greater than a
Father: Rearrangements of Traditions among Muslim Artisans in
Soviet and Post-Soviet Uzbekistan,” Research in Economic Anthropology
29 (UK: JAI Press, Emerald, 2009), pp. 89–122.
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YULIA MIKHAILOVA is a professor at
the Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University. Her
publications include Japan and Russia. Three Centuries of Mutual Images
(Folkestone: Global Oriental, 2008), “Intellectuals, Cartoons and
Nationalism during the Russo-Japanese War,” in Mark W. MacWilliams,
Japanese Visual Culture (M.R. Sharpe, 2008) and many other articles on
Russian-Japanese relations.
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