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Eurasia Border Review
Volume 9 No. 1 Fall 2018
Table of Contents< Article >India-Taiwan Ties: Can They Overcome Structural Challenges?
Prashant Kumar Singh ······················································································ 1Homeland and Diasporic Space: Transnational Practices of Central Asian and Sakhalin Koreans
Igor Saveliev ······························································································· 29
East Asians in Soviet Intelligence and the Chinese-Lenin School of the Russian Far East
Jon K. Chang ······························································································· 45
Economic Development, (A)symmetries and Local Geopolitics: A New Approach to Studying
Cross-Border Cooperation in Europe
Margarita Castañer, Jarosław Jańczak and Javier Martín-Uceda ···································· 67
The Spirit of Minerva: Notes on a Border Dispute in the PacificElisapeci Samanunu Waqanivala ········································································ 91< Research Note >From Reindeer to MTV: Indigenous Performers and the Russia-China Border
Ed Pulford ·································································································· 113< Review >Alexander Lukin, China and Russia: The New Rapprochement, Polity: Cambridge:
2018, 272 p., ISBN: 978-1-509-52170-8
Marcin Kaczmarski ························································································ 129
Kapka Kassabova, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, Minnesota: Graywolf:
2017, 379 p., ISBN: 978-1-55597-786-3
Krishnendra Meena ························································································ 131
Eurasia Border Review Manuscript Submission Guidelines ············································ 135i

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EDITORS
Akihiro IWASHITA
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center
Hokkaido University

Paul RICHARDSON
School of Geography, Earth andEnvironmental Sciences
University of Birmingham

Seth CERVANTES
Hufstedler School of Education
Alliant International University

Edward BOYLE
Graduate School of Law
Kyushu University

Jonathan BULL
Research Faculty of Media and Communication
Hokkaido University

EDITORIAL BOARD
Akihiro IWASHITA
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center
Hokkaido University

Kazuto SUZUKI
Graduate School of Law
Hokkaido University

Hideki TARUMOTO
Faculty of Letters,
Arts and Sciences
Waseda University

Hiroshi YOSHIMI
Graduate School of Economics
and Business Administration
Hokkaido University

Tomohiko UYAMA
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center
Hokkaido University

David WOLFF
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center
Hokkaido Universityii

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INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD( in alphabetical order )Mikhail ALEXSEEVDepartment of Political Science
San Diego State University

Emmanuel BRUNET-JAILLYSchool of Public Administration
University of Victoria

Jekuk CHANG
President and CEODongseo University

Ilkka LIIKANEN
Karelian Institute
University of Eastern Finland

Mustaq A. KAW
Center of Central Asian Studies
University of Kashmir

Muzaffar OLIMOV
Director
Russian Center SHARQ (ORIENS)

Martin PRATT
International Boundaries Research Unit
University of Durham

Sergey RYAZANTSEVInstitute of Socio-Political Research
Russian Academy of Sciences

Guangcheng XING
Research Center for Chinese
Borderland History and Geography
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences©2018 by the Eurasia Border Review
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