Emerging meso-areas in the former socialist countries
Subtitle: histories revised or improvised?
By: edited by Kimitaka Matsuzato.
Contributors: Matsuzato, Kimitaka, 1960-
Series: Slavic Eurasian studies -- no. 7
Publisher: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Sapporo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Regionalism -- Former Soviet republics -- Congresses.; Comparative civilization -- Congresses.; Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government -- Congresses.; Eurasia -- Politics and government -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "This book is based on the papers presented at an international symposium, entitled 'Emerging meso-areas in the former socialist countries' held at Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan) on January 28-31, 2004."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Regional identities and meso-mega area dynamics in Slavic Eurasia: focused on Eastern Europe / Osamu Ieda; value: On sails and gales, and ships driving in various directions: post-soviet Ukraine as a test case for the meso-area concept / Yaroslav Hrytsak; value: The study of meso- and mega-area dynamics: methodological and empirical considerations / Vello Pettai; value: Tatars as meso-nation / Dmitry Gorenburg; value: Moldova and the politics of meso-areas / Stephen White and Ian McAllister; value: Ukrainian gas traders, domestic clans and Russian factors: a test case for the meso-area dynamics / Shinkichi Fujimori; value: Will the Ukrainian parliament counterbalance superpresidentialism? / Oleksandr Syniookyi; value: Peculiarities of the integration process between Belarus and athe Russian Federation: economic and political aspects / Andrei Lobatch; value: The representation of the Belorusian language in contemporary belarusian literature / Go Koshino; value: Dagestan's approach to the Islamic mega-area? the potentials and limits of jihadism / Dmitry Makarov; value: Alien but loyal: reasons for the "unstable stability" of Dagestan, an outpost of Slavic Eurasia / Magomed-Rasul Ibragimov and Kimitaka Matsuzato; value: Between imperial temptation and anti-imperial function in Eastern European Politics: Poland from the eighteenth to twenty-first century / Andrzej Nowak; value: The most European science in Russia: defining the empire anthropologically / Marina Mogilner; value: From ethnocentric to civic history: changes in contemporary Lithuanian historical studies / Darius Staliūnas; value: Empire or post-empire? the concept of "long century" and the consequences of globalization / Norihisa Yamashita; value: Abkhazia under the conditions of the division of the world / Stanislav Lakoba; value: Is it easy to globalize the world? the expansion of the Schengen territory and freedom of movement in a wider Europe / Vitaly Merkushev; value: Opportunities and limits of self-creation and identity politics: Tatarstan's paradiplomatic project / Gulnaz Sharafutdinova.