PREFACE (Kimitaka Matsuzato) . . 7
1. REGIONAL IDENTITIES AND MESO-MEGA AREA DYNAMICS
IN SLAVIC EURASIA: FOCUSED ON EASTERN EUROPE
(Osamu Ieda) . . 19
2. ON SAILS AND GALES, AND SHIPS DRIVING IN VARIOUS
DIRECTIONS: POST-SOVIET UKRAINE AS A TEST CASE
FOR THE MESO-AREA CONCEPT (Yaroslav Hrytsak) . . 42
3. THE STUDY OF MESO- AND MEGA-AREA DYNAMICS:
METHODOLOGICAL AND EMPIRICAL CONSIDERATIONS
(Vello Pettai) . . 69
4. TATARS AS MESO-NATION (Dmitry Gorenburg) . . 83
5. MOLDOVA AND THE POLITICS OF MESO-AREAS
(Stephen White and lan McAllister) . . 93
6. UKRAINIAN GAS TRADERS, DOMESTIC CLANS AND RUSSIAN
FACTORS: A TEST CASE FOR MESO-MEGA AREA DYNAMICS
(Shinkichi Fujimori) . . 113
7. WILL THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT COUNTERBALANCE
SUPERPRESIDENTIALISM? (Oleksandr Syniookyi) . . 137
8. PECULIARITIES OF THE INTEGRATION PROCESS BETWEEN
BELARUS AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: ECONOMIC
AND POLITICAL ASPECTS (Andrei Lobatch) . . 155
9. THE REPRESENTATION OF THE BELARUSIAN LANGUAGE
IN CONTEMPORARY BELARUSIAN LITERATURE (Go Koshino) . . 177
10. DAGESTAN'S APPROACH TO THE ISLAMIC MEGA-AREA?
THE POTENTIALS AND LIMITS OF JIHADISM (Dmitry Makarov) . . 195
11. ALIEN BUT LOYAL: REASONS FOR THE "UNSTABLE STABILITY"
OF DAGESTAN, AN OUTPOST OF SLAVIC EURASIA
(Magomed-Rasul Ibragimov and Kimitaka Matsuzato) . . 221
12. BETWEEN IMPERIAL TEMPTATION AND ANTI-IMPERIAL
FUNCTION IN EASTERN EUROPEAN POLITICS: POLAND
FROM THE EIGHTEENTH TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
(Andrzej Nowak) . . 247
13. THE MOST EUROPEAN SCIENCE IN RUSSIA: DEFINING
THE EMPIRE ANTHROPOLOGICALLY (Marina Mogilner) . . 285
14. FROM ETHNOCENTRIC TO Civic HISTORY: CHANGES
IN CONTEMPORARY LITHUANIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES
(Darius Staliunas) . . 311
15. EMPIRE OR POST-EMPIRE? THE CONCEPT OF "LONG
CENTURY" AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBALIZATION
(Norihisa Yamashita) . . 335
16. ABKHAZIA UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THE DIVISION
OF THE WORLD (Stanislav Lakoba) . . 349
17. IS IT EASY TO GLOBALIZE THE WORLD? THE EXPANSION
OF THE SCHENGEN TERRITORY AND FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
IN A WIDER EUROPE (Vitaly Merkushev) . . 372
18. OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITS OF SELF-CREATION AND
IDENTITY POLITICS: TATARSTAN'S PARADIPLOMATIC PROJECT
(Gulnaz Sharafutdinova) . . 387