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September 1999 - August 2009
July 2014 - March 2015
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Although border issues are a matter of importance for a large number of people, contemporary
Border Studies (dominated by the intertwining of post-modernist, constructivist, and
critical approaches) is little preoccupied with finding viable practical solutions, focusing instead
on conceptualising the essence of borders and border processes. Meanwhi...
Conspiracy theorizing is common in many countries worldwide. It plays a particularly important role in contemporary Russian politics. The substantial part of such “theories” focuses on the sinister plans of foreign enemies, among which the United States and its allies are mentioned most frequently. A wide
range of actors, varying from high-standing...
The land border between Russia and the European Union is one of the longest land borders in the world, with very considerable trade flowing across the border in both directions. This book examines the nature of the EU-Russia border, and the issues connected with its management. It describes the territories and the societies on each side of the bord...
Those who have to cross “hard” borders face many problems on their way, including arbitrary and unjust treatment by consular and border guard officers, protracted and nitpicking inspections and extortion by customs officers, and huge traffic congestions. This article examines the extent to which various categories of people crossing the European Un...
The open-access monograph examines cross-border cooperation (CBC) in Central Asia within a broader global context. It conceptualizes the Central Asian CBC experience in comparison with cases from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, highlighting both similarities and region-specific dynamics. The book covers institutional frameworks, economic in...
Central Asia, as a region, took its current shape in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. The decision to formally designate the region as “Central Asia” was made in January 1993 during a meeting in Tashkent, where representatives of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan agreed to replace the Soviet-era t...
To analyze the applicability of international CBC practices to the realities of Central Asia, we will attempt, based on the analysis conducted in the relevant chapter and without claiming exhaustive coverage of the issue, to outline the typical features of such cooperation and assess their relevance to the models of various regions from a comparati...
The topic of CBC has been extensively studied in numerous works. These studies address the conceptualization of various aspects of this phenomenon, evaluate its effectiveness, and propose recommendations for its improvement and for overcoming the numerous challenges it faces.
Introduction. The article analyzes water security issues in river basins of the Kazakhstan-Russia border region, as well as transboundary cooperation in this area. These issues are analyzed from a Kazakhstani perspective, which has distinct characteristics compared to the Russian perspective but cannot be considered without taking the latter into a...
Numerous forecasts emphasize the danger of escalating conflicts over freshwater resources in Central Asia due to such factors, as limited availability of water resources across much of the region, rapid population growth, adverse consequences of the global warming, and contradictions between agricultural and energy needs of the region’s states. Des...
Приграничное сотрудничество может сыграть значительную роль в контексте центральноазиатской интеграции. При анализе международного опыта приграничного сотрудничества пристального внимания заслуживает не только передовой, но довольно специфический опыт ЕС, но также опыт других регионов, более близких по своим характеристикам к центральноазиатским ус...
After the disintegration of the USSR, Russia confronted the task of reforming its border security policy, which had previously emphasized stringent control over both inbound and outbound cross-border movements. This challenge was further compounded by the unprecedented management of 13 thousand kilometers of newly established borders with other sta...
The article represents an effort to conceptualize energy security issues of the four post-Soviet de facto states: Republic of Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and Republic of South Ossetia. The author considers: relevant conceptual issues; the structure of post-Soviet de facto states’ energy consumption; the r...
Stepanova E., Golunov S. Peace processes, violence, and de facto states: introduction // Pathways to Peace and Security. 2022. No 1(62) Special Issue: Peace Processes, Violence, and De Facto States. P. 7-29.
Only a quarter of outcomes of armed conflicts that ended during the first two decades of the 21st century resulted from negotiated peace or c...
The dynamics of peacemaking and the uneasy interplay of talks and violence in contemporary peace processes become increasingly nonlinear, complex, and unpredictable. In this special issue (no. 1(62), 2022), a mix of actors, dynamics and factors at the interface of peace processes and violence is narrowed down to contexts that involve de facto state...
The article is devoted to the ways in which the January 2022 crisis in Kazakhstan were discussed by parliamentarians from 11 states and the European Parliament, identified by searching the websites of 42 parliaments. The author considers such issues as the role of parliaments in foreign policy making, the character and stability of parliamentarians...
The article considers specific features of official patriotism and patriotic education in post-Soviet de facto (unrecognized) stated. It discusses the question of how the official patriotic discourse reflects the issues of international recognition deficit and of scarcity of available resources. The author attempts to conceptualize patriotic upbrin...
The article focuses on cross-border cooperation of post-Soviet de facto states (Abkhazia, Donetsk, and Lugansk people’s republics, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and South Ossetia) from the early 1990s until 2021. The author argues that in the most of examined cases cross-border cooperation of post-Soviet de facto states is not particularly eff...
1970-х, для России-центробежных геополи-тических тенденций после распада СССР. В качестве «негативного» инструмента США чаще всего используют санкции в отношении энергетических секторов оппонентов, тогда как наиболее сильнодействующим российским оружием становились ограничения поставок углеводородного сырья. Для обеспечения энергетической безопасно...
While employing their energy potentials for advancing their foreign policy interests, Russia and the USA apply a variety of political tools and practices that can be classified as "positive" or "negative"; regulating energy markets, or reinforcing one's own potential. The author argues that in both cases, the application of energy-related statecraf...
The article focuses on the phenomenon of post-Soviet de facto borders (viz. the borders of Abkhazia, the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Transnistria) in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The author outlines similarities and differences of these de facto borders in comparison wit...
The article considers the role of Russian border controls in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, including its impacts on immigration and customs controls and on cross-border social and economic activities. Although in March 2020 Russian border controls proved to be insufficient, they still were used as one of the main tools for immobilizing peop...
Анализируется исторический дискурс «халифата Исламского государства» – созданного террористической группировкой квазигосударственного образова-
ния, существовавшего с 2014 по 2017 г. (оно не было признано ни одной страной мира; в 2014 г. Верховный Суд РФ запретил деятельность «Исламского государства» в России). Особое внимание уделяется апеллирован...
В статье предпринята попытка концептуального осмысления «халифата», созданного запрещенной в России террористической группировкой «Исламское государство» (ИГ), сквозь призму феномена непризнанного государства. Сопоставляя «халифат» с основной массой существующих сегодня непризнанных государств, автор концентрирует внимание на территориальной иденти...
Терроризм рассматривается в качестве одной из основных угроз безопасности для многих стран мира, включая Россию и страны Запада. В числе мер борьбы с террористической угрозой значительной частью политиков и общественности часто называется ужесточение миграционной политики, включая визовый режим и процедуры предоставления убежища. В настоящей работе...
This is a book review in Russian. The Russian title is: "Миграционные процессы в меняющихся условиях: европейская и постсоветская перспективы". The title of a reviewed book is: Миграционный кризис: международное сотрудничество и национальные стратегии:
Сборник научных статей/ под ред. В.С.Малахова и М.Е.Симона. – М.: Изд. дом «Дело» РАНХиГС, 2017....
This article focuses on two main issues: the ability of informal crossborder entrepreneurs to avoid restrictions imposed by a government, and governmental capacity to make these restrictions work efficiently in the long term. Two kinds of informal trade activities between Russia and Japan— import of used cars and trafficking of marine bioresources—...
This chapter focuses on the two Russian Asia-Pacific seaport towns of Korsakov and Yuzhno-Kurilsk, situated in the Russian–Japanese maritime borderland area in the northeast Pacific. It scrutinizes the influence of the Japanese Other on the post-Soviet development of these towns, taking the conceptual perspective of Border Studies as a departure po...
Conspiracy theories about covert external interference play significant roles in the political discourses of many countries worldwide. In Russia, conspiracy theorizing about U.S. clandestine interference is a long-time, long-term political trend currently being used to increase the legitimacy of President Vladimir Putin. In the United States, consp...
The paper focuses on the phenomenon of borderland shuttle trade across Russia’s borders with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. I argue that borderland shuttle trade is more sustainable in comparison with long-haul shuttle trade, as the former gives entrepreneurs more flexibility, involves fewer transaction costs, and can rely on the extensive...
Russian-EU relations have dramatically worsened since Russia's involvement in Ukrainian affairs in 2014. Mutual mistrust and suspicion have rapidly increased and many cooperative efforts have been canceled. Russia-NATO tensions have escalated and each side has sanctioned the other while the Russian economy has faltered. What have been the precise e...
The paper focuses on the Russia-U.S. cross-border area that lies in the Bering Sea region. Employing the concept of geographical proximity, I argue that the U.S.-Russian proximity works in a limited number of cases and for relatively few kinds of actors, such as companies supplying Chukotka with American goods, border guards conducting rescue opera...
The political and economic relationship between Russia and China has been intensifying over the past decade, particularly as Moscow has attempted to “pivot to the East.” While their bilateral political and trade relations have experienced a recent honeymoon of sorts, Russia’s largely resource-based economy and economic downturn keeps its potential...
Tourists are one of the most numerous categories of Russian visitors to Japan. However, the number of Russian tourists visiting Japan annually is not very high, amounting just two or three dozens of thousands annually. Visa
requirements are among the most serious barriers hindering the growth of this flow. The current memo
examines particular ways...
Russia's border with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is its shortest: the length of the land border between the two states is less than 20 km. It divides countries with very different economic systems and political regimes; nevertheless, both states proclaim each other to be valuable partners and promoting far-reaching plans for th...
Are the concepts and practical recommendations offered in the works of Western authors for tackling the problem of migration-related crime applicable to Russian realities?
Mainstream post-positivist approaches to Border Studies typically represent national borders as losing their importance or blurring. This insight usually fails to grasp the perspective of those who have to cross ‘hard’ borders, for whom these borders are primarily ‘hard facts’ quite precisely restricting territorial limits of their movement. Aiming...
The situation in the border zone of post-Soviet Russia offers many opportunities for illegal self-enrichment, but public oversight and measures based on foreign experience may prove useful in reducing smuggling and other types of corruption.
This memo examines the use of conspiracy theories by supporters of Putin’s regime by exploring the following issues. First, it examines the nature of conspiracy theories in Russia before Putin came to power. It then looks at two major outbreaks of government-inspired anti-opposition conspiracy theorizing: after the color revolutions of the mid-2000...
A structuralist discourse analysis is used to analyze strengths and weaknesses of patriotic education in terms of its potential to solve urgent problems of Russian development. Evolution of governmental policies in patriotic education in the 1990s-2000s is described. The paper defines the scope of problems given top priority in modern Russian patri...
The Republic of Kazakhstan has been confronted by complex border security problems, which its government has failed to adequately address. Relevant state structures are gradually taking more seriously the task of improving border security, though this process will be long and arduous requiring consistent political will to tackle a whole host of int...
