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The Sakhalin Climate Experiment
Climate change was long neglected by Russian politics. However, from 2019 to 2021, substantial changes were observable. During this time, climate...
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Northeast Asia’s Energy Transition–Challenges for a Rules-Based Security and Economic Order
Would the rise and political convergence of a dominant gas supplier (Russia) and an outsized consumer (the People's Republic of China) prohibit or...
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Land and People
Russia is by some distance the world’s largest country in terms of area covered. The territory of the Russian Federation extends across two...
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Energy Security Cooperation
This chapter charts the development of energy security cooperation between Russia and South Korea from the regional perspective, focusing...
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This World of Ours Got into a Trap
History just goes on. Over time, when enough of it has passed, it turns out that the events of the past were not at all as they were described by...
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Network Diplomacy and City Twinning
As technological and societal innovators, urban centres have a significant role to play in the networked diplomacy of states, to foster international...
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Russia–South Korea Economic Relations Against the Background of Regional Economic Integration
Russian and South Korean economies are in many ways complementary, and both sides display great interest in develo** practical co-operation....
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Rosneft: Peculiarities and Implications of State Ownership in Russia’s Oil Sector
This chapter outlines the specific features of state ownership in the Russian oil industry, presenting an account deviating from mainstream...
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Spatial Development, Regional Policy, and Contemporary World Politics
This article examines whether the uniform socio-economic development of a state affects its stability in international relations. We rely on the...
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The Energy War: How Europe Turned the Tables on Russia
This study is about the energy war between Russia and Europe. The battlefield is the international energy market. Russia exploits instability in the...
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The Attempt to Establish a Japanese State-Owned Oil Company in the Early Twenty-First Century
In Japan, the idea to establish a state-owned oil company was conceived during the debt-ridden JNOC debacle during the Koizumi Administration. As a...
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The Power of Attraction (Rather than Persuasion): A Brief Enquiry into Dutch-Russian Relations
The Netherlands boasts long historical ties with Russia. Commercial links go back to medieval times, but it was especially during the long reign of...
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The United States’ Differing Strategies of “New World Order” Between Europe and Asia in the Post-War Period
In this article, the author wishes to investigate and analyze what were the underlying reasons for the United States to adopt a completely different...
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Triangular Dynamics in the Imperial Era
The chapter reviews interactions crystallizing among the United States, a young, vigorous, and expansionist actor seeking control over its...
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Japan
When the last ice sheets covered much of Asia, the sea level fell low enough for a land bridge to appear between Japan and the Asian mainland. This...
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Russia’s New Eastward Policy and Transnational Development Cooperation in the Far East
The Far East is a transfrontier area where Russia, China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula meet. As a geographical and strategic factor, the Far East...
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Sport as a Focus of Bilateral Contacts Between Russia and Post-Soviet Central Asia
This paper is aimed at the analysis of how Russia and its close neighbours – the five post-Soviet Central Asian states – cooperate in the area of...
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Epilogue
This chapter talks about the decade after 2010. It follows the examination in the previous chapters on the structural evolution in the overseas oil...
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The Genesis of the ‘European Idea’ and Its Early Implementation Efforts
This chapter explores the inception of the European concept and early efforts aimed at realising some form of European unification up until the onset...
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The Origin of the ROK Nuclear Program
This chapter first illustrates the beginning of ROK Nuclear Program and its limitation. This chapter also explains how and why the political...