"Northern territories" and beyond : Russian, Japanese, and American perspectives
The authors explore the prospects for cooperative regional engagement, a nuclear build-down in the North Pacific, and possible involvement of the UN in the resolution of the territorial dispute.The dissolution of the Soviet Union raised hopes for a rapid improvement of Japanese-Russian relations.
xxxiv, 368 pages : map ; 25 cm
9780275950934, 027595093X
31013275
The Northern territories-Southern Kuril Islands dispute / Saburo Okita and Minoru Takahashi
A diplomatic history of the dispute / Raymond L. Garthoff
From Stalin to Brezhnev / Alexander N. Panov
Problems of the neutrality period / Matthew J. Ouimet
On the historiographical frontier / John J. Stephan
Japanese perceptions of Russia / Hiroshi Kimura
Russian perceptions of Japan / Semiyon I. Verbitskii
From Gorbachev to Yeltsin / Alexander N. Panov
Shintaro Abe's "creative diplomacy" / Junjiro Isomura
The debate before the summit / Herbert J. Ellison
Continuing stalemate / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Japan's Russia policy and the October 1993 summit / Nobuo Shimotomai
Overcoming the psychological impasse / Konstantin O.l Sarkisov
The territorial dispute in the post-Cold War international context / Robert A. Scalapino
An age of upheaval / Donald C. Hellmann
Paths to resolution of the territorial dispute / Vasili I. Saplin
Natural resources of the disputed area / Mark J. Valencia and Noel A. Ludwig
Environment and history / Peter J. Poole
Russian economic reforms and Japan / Ivan Tselitschev
How Japan should deal with Russia / Motohide Saito
Toward a new era of Russian-Japanese relations / Susumu Takahashi
New opportunities for Russian-Japanese normalization / Vladimir P. Lukin
New priorities for Asia-Pacific security / Sheila A. Smith
Regional security context / Atsushi Shimokobe
Naval and other forces in the Northwest Pacific / James L. George
Japan, Russia, and nuclear nonproliferation / Takehiko Kamo
Russia and the United States-Japan partnership
Nuclear disarmament, nuclear energy, and defense conversion / Takeshi Kondo
Cooperative security in Northeast Asia / James E. Goodby
Chronology of events, 1985-1994