January 27 (Saturday)
Special Seminar
(Room 423 at the SRC)
"Regional/Subregional Politics in Post-Communist Countries"
10:00-11:30 1st Session: [in Japanese with English interpretation] | |
Review Discussion of the Collection "Emerging Local Governments in Eastern Europe and Russia" edited by Osamu Ieda | |
Reviewer: Masataka Takenaka (Gifu University) [in Japanese, with synchronic translation] |
|
Replies will be given by the authors of this collection. |
11:30-13:30 2nd Session: Regional Politics in Poland [in English] | |
"Formation of the regional political space in Poland - A case of Upper Silesia." | |
Akio Komorida (Tokyo University) | |
"Polish Local Government and the Europe of the Regions." | |
Manabu Sengoku (Seinan Gakuin University) |
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:30 3rd Session: Regional and Local Politics in the NIS [in English] |
|
"Politics of Pipelines: Gas Traders and Regional Elites in Ukraine." | |
Shinkichi Fujimori (Keio University) | |
"The Island of Democracy?: Local Reforms in Kyrgyzstan. 1990-2000." | |
Kimitaka Matsuzato (SRC) | |
"Economic Reform and the Role of Regions in Russia: From the Viewpoint of Resource Allocation" | |
Akane Hashimoto (Sophia University) |