The Issue of Unrecognized States in the Territory of the Post-SovietSphare

• Project/Area Number: 23810001
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: SATO Keiji 北海道大学, スラブ研究センター, GCOE共同研究員 (20609599)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2012
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: 国際関係論 / 地域研究 / 政治学 / 社会学 / 歴史学 / 民族問題 / 民族紛争 / 非承認国歌問題 / グルジア / 南オセチア / アブハジア / 旧ソ連 / 資源動員論 / 国際政治学

Research Abstract

The project succeeds to get a new angle on ethnic studies of the former Soviet states, comparing the cases of South Ossetia and Abkhazia which formed “unrecognized states” to the cases which failed to. During two years the project achieved 5 cases of presentation in international conferences, 1 case in a domestic conference, 2 cases of invited lecture, 1 article of an English review journal and 2 articles.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Ethnic Political Mobilization: An Integrative or Disintegrative Force in the Modern Polity?: Casestudiesof Political Mobilization by Non-titular Nations in Moldova Estonia and Lithuania (2013)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Journal Title: Two Decades of Development in Post-Soviet States: Successes and Failures Volume: (印刷中)
• [Journal Article] Acknowledgment of the Secret Protocol of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact and theDeclaration of State Sovereignty by the Union Republic of the USSR (2013)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Journal Title: Europe and Asia Studies Volume: (印刷中)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] “Ethnic Political Mobilization: An Integrative or Disintegrative Force in the Modern Polity?: Case-studies of Political Mobilization by Non-titular Nations in Moldova, Estonia and Lithuania - (2013)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Journal Title: Two Decades of Development in Post-Soviet States: Successes and Failures Volume: 未定
• [Journal Article] Acknowledgment of the Secret Protocol of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact and the Declaration of State Sovereignty by the Union Republic of the USSR (2013)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Journal Title: Europe Asia Studies Volume: 未定
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Die Molotow-Ribbentrop- Kommission und Forderungen nach Sezession undUnabhangigkeit post-sowjetischer Territorien (2011)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Journal Title: Der Hitler-Stalin-Pakt 1939 in den Erinnerungskulturen derEuropaer Pages: 141-153
• [Journal Article] Die Molotow-Ribbentrop-Kommission und Forderungen nach Sezession und Unabhangigkeit post-sowietischer Territorien (2011)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Journal Title: Der Hitler-Stalin-Pakt 1939 in den Erinnerungskulturen der Europaer Pages: 141-153
• [Presentation] 'Romanians' beyond EU border: Is Romania Heartland or Economic Asylum for Moldovans and Romanian Diaspora in Ukraine? (2012)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Organizer: Border Regions in Transition (BRIT)
  • Place of Presentation: マリンメッセ福岡(福岡市)
  • Year and Date: 2012-11-13
• [Presentation] 民族的資源動員の中範囲理 論:ソ連邦末期のモルドヴァ、グルジア、エ ストニア、リトアニアでの事例を中心に (2012)
  • Author(s): 佐藤圭史
  • Organizer: 2012年度日本国際政治学会研究大会
  • Place of Presentation: 名古屋国際会議場(名古屋市)
  • Year and Date: 2012-10-20
• [Presentation] Europeanization at the'grassroots' level in Moldova: What are effective ways to deal with the Transnistrian conflict? (2012)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Organizer: Fourth East Asian Conference on Slavic and Eurasian Studies
  • Place of Presentation: MAKIAS (Kolkata: India)
  • Year and Date: 2012-09-05
• [Presentation] Social and Political Movements in South Ossetia, southern Southern Moldova (Gagauzia) and Transnistria at the End of the Soviet Era (2012)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Organizer: 第7回国際シンポジウム『帝国から地域大国へ、国家と非国家の間で』
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道大学(札幌市)
  • Year and Date: 2012-07-04
• [Presentation] Ethnic Political Mobilization: An Integrative or Disintegrative Force in the ModernPolity? (2012)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Organizer: West Coast Seminar(招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: University of California (Berkley: U.S.A.)
  • Year and Date: 2012-03-16
• [Presentation] Ethnic Political Mobilization : An Integrative or Disintegrative Force in the Modern Polity? (2012)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Organizer: West Coast Seminar
  • Place of Presentation: University of California, Berkley, U.S.A.(招待講演)
  • Year and Date: 2012-03-16
• [Presentation] Political Mobilization by Russian Speakers in North East Estonia at the End of the SovietEra (2012)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Organizer: West Coast Seminar (招待講演)
  • Place of Presentation: University of California(SantaBarbara: U.S.A.)
  • Year and Date: 2012-02-15
• [Presentation] Political Mobilization by Russian Speakers in North East Estonia at the End of the Soviet Era (2012)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Organizer: West Coast Seminar
  • Place of Presentation: University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.(招待講演)
  • Year and Date: 2012-02-15
• [Presentation] Outbreak of Local Armed Confrontations between Titular Nations and Non-titularNations in Georgia and Moldova (2012)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Organizer: 2nd Hokkaido Roundtable
  • Place of Presentation: Harvard University (U.S.A.)
  • Year and Date: 2012-02-03
• [Presentation] Outbreak of Local Armed Confrontations between Titular Nations and Non-titular Nations in Georgia and Moldova (2012)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Organizer: 2nd Hokkaido Roundtable
  • Place of Presentation: Harvard University, U.S.A.
  • Year and Date: 2012-02-03
• [Presentation] Ethnic Political Mobilization: An Integrative or Disintegrative Force in the Modern Polity? (2011)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Organizer: 1st Hokkaido Roundtable
  • Place of Presentation: Harvard University (U.S.A.)
  • Year and Date: 2011-12-03
• [Presentation] Ethnic Political Mobilization : An Integrative or Disintegrative Force in the Modem Polity? (2011)
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Organizer: 1st Hokkaido Roundtable
  • Place of Presentation: Harvard University, U.S.A.
  • Year and Date: 2011-12-03
• [Presentation] “Social and Political Movement Movements in South Ossetia, southern Southern Moldova (Gagauzia), and Transnistria at the End of the Soviet Era:
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Organizer: 第7回国際シンポジウム『帝国から地域大国へ、国家と非国家の間で』
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道大学（札幌市）
• [Presentation] “Europeanization at the ‘grassroots’ level in Moldova: What are effective ways to deal with the Transnistrian conflict?”
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Organizer: Fourth East Asian Conference on Slavic and Eurasian Studies
  • Place of Presentation: MAKIAS（インド）
• [Presentation] 「民族的資源動員の中範囲理論：ソ連邦末期のモルドヴァ、グルジア、エストニア、リトアニアでの事例を中心に」
  • Author(s): 佐藤圭史
  • Organizer: 2012年度日本国際政治学会研究大会
  • Place of Presentation: 名古屋国際会議場（愛知県）
• [Presentation] “’Romanians’ beyond EU border: Is Romania Heartland or Economic Asylum for Moldovans and Romanian Diaspora in Ukraine?”
  • Author(s): Keiji Sato
  • Organizer: Border Regions in Transition (BRIT)
  • Place of Presentation: マリンメッセ福岡（福岡県）