PUBL.- Transparent Borders: Security and Transboundary Cooperation in RussiaТs New Borderlands

Prozrachnye granitsy: bezopasnostТ i transgranichnoe sotrudnichestvo v zone novyh pogranichnyh territoriiТ Rossii (Transparent Borders: Security and Transboundary Cooperation in RussiaТs New Borderlands). Ed. by Leonid Vardomsky and Sergey Golunov. Ц Moscow-Volgograd, Academic Educational Forum on International Relations, 2002, 573 p. ISBN 5-901981-03-0.
This collective monograph is a result of the international research project УSecurity Issues of the New Russian BorderlandsФ was held from September, 2001 to June, 2002 on the base of the Center for Regional and Transboundary Studies at Volgograd State University. The project was supported by the Academic Educational Forum on International Relations. All papers are in Russian.
Collective of the authors: Andrei Bykov (Chapter 2, з 1); Vladimir Chassovsky (Chapter 4, з 3); Sergey Golunov (Chapter 2, з 2; Chapter 4, зз 5,7; Conclusion); Alexei Kiriukhin (Chapter 4, з 4, 4.1); Vladimir Kolossov (Chapter 4, з 4, 4.1-4.2); Alexander Kubyshkin (Chapter 1, з 2); Andrei Makarychev (Chapter 1, з 1); Vladimir Ostapchenko (Chapter 2; з 3); Eugeny Pankratov (Chapter 2, з 3); Olga Romanova (Chapter 3, з 1; Chapter 4, зз 1-2); Elena Samburova (Chapter 3, з 2); Ilya Toropitsyn (Chapter 4, з 6), Leonid Vardomsky (Introduction; Chapter 2, з 4); Musa Yusupov (Chapter 4, з 5).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. CONCEPTUAL FUNDAMENTALS OF TRANSBOUNDARY SECURITY: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

з 1. Spatial Descriptions of Transboundary Security (pp. 8-41)
з 2. Northern American Experience of Security and Cooperation in Borderlands (pp. 41-58).

CHAPTER II. THE PHENOMENON OF RUSSIAN NEW BORDERLAND

з1. Historical Background of Forming Russian and Soviet Borders in XX century (pp. 59-85).
з 2. New Borderlands in International Relations at the Post-Soviet Space (pp. 85-109).
з 3. Security Issues for New Russian Borders and Formation of the Border Policy (pp. 109-131).
з 4. New Borders of Russian Federation in the Light of Regional Cooperation in the Post-Soviet Space. (pp. 131-163).

CHAPTER III. OLD BORDERS OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION

з 1. The Borders with Norway and Finland (pp. 163-180).
з 2. Russian-Chinese Border (pp. 180-209).

CHAPTER IV. NEW BORDERS OF RUSSIA

з 1. The Borders of Kaliningrad Exclave (pp. 209-232).
з 2. The Borders with Latvia and Estonia (pp. 232-246).
з 3. Russian-Byelorussian Border: the Experience of Interregional Cooperation (pp. 246-270).
з 4. Russian-Ukrainian Border (p. 270).
4.1. Cross-Border Cooperation (pp. 270-298).
4.2. The Factor of Regional Transboundary Identities (pp. 298-322).
з 5. The Borders with Georgia and Azerbaijan (pp. 322-376).
з 6. Border Problems of Caspian Territories (pp. 376-406).
з 7. Russian-Kazakhstani Border (pp. 406-488).

CONCLUSION (pp. 489-496).

TERMINOLOGICAL VOCABULARY (pp. 520-539).

APPENDIX 1. Conception of Cross-Border Cooperation in Russian Federation (pp. 540-550).

APPENDIX 2. The List of Passing Points through the New Russian Borders (pp. 551-560).

APPENDIX 3. Some Social-Economic Indices of the New Russian Border Regions in 2000 (pp. 561-563).

APPENDIX 4. Foreign Trade Turnover of Russian Border Regions with the neighbor Post-Soviet States.


Due to the support of MacArthur Foundation the book is itself of no cost. Unfortunately, we are not able to cover postal expenses.








Copyright й 2002 Center for Regional and Transboundary Studies at Volgograd State University

Copyright й 2002 Sergey Golunov