Slavic Research Center International Symposium “Alliances and Borders in the Making and Unmaking of Regional Powers”
Date: July 7-8, 2011
Place: Room 403 4th floor, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University

Please register on the web-site below.
http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/cgi/201107wwwmail-e.htm
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
9:30～10:00
welcome: MOCHIZUKI Tetsuo (SRC Director)
introduction: David WOLFF (SRC)

10:00～12:00
session 1 The Opening Door: New Archival Evidence from Japan
Chair: ISHII Akira (Emeritus, Tokyo U.)
INOUE Masaya (Kagawa U.)
"Japan’s Pursuit of a Modus Vivendi : Normalization of Sino-Japanese Relations and the Taiwan Issue, 1971-1972"
YOSHIDA Shingo (JSPS Research Fellow)
"Credibility Imperatives vs. Domestic Antimilitarism:
Japan’s Alliance Policies during the 1970s"
KUSUNOKI Ayako (Kwansei Gakuin U.)
"The Evolution of Arrangements for US Bases in Japan"
Commentators: GABE Masaaki (Ryukyu U.) and Vojtech MASTNY (Parallel History Project)

13:30～15:30
session 2 "Hub and Spokes" Revisited: Korea, Taiwan, ANZUS
Chair: SASAKI Takuya (Rikkyo U.)
IZUMIKAWA Yasuhiro (Chuo U.)
"The Emergence and Evolution of the Hub and Spoke Alliance System in East Asia" MATSUMOTO Haruka (Institute of Developing Countries / Institute of Asian
Economies)
"The Taiwan Straits Crisis Viewed from ROC Archives"
Vojtech MASTNY (Parallel History Project) "The ANZUS Experience and Security in Asia Pacific: A Cold War Legacy."
Commentator: NAKAI Yoshifumi (Gakushuin U.) and ENDO Ken (Hokkaido U.)

15:45～18:00
session 3 China’s Borders
Chair: IWASHITA Akihiro (SRC)
Sergey RADCHENKO (Nottingham U.)
"Carving up the Steppes: Borders, Territory and Nationalism in Mongolia, 1943-1949"
Soren URBANSKY (Freiburg U.)
"A Very Orderly Friendship: The Sino-Soviet Border under the Alliance Regime, 1950-1960"
Pierre GROSSER (Institut des Etudes Politiques) "Chinese Borders and Indigenous Parallels: France, Vietnam, and the Korean Model"
LI Danhui (Beijing U.)
"New Chinese Evidence on Sino-Soviet Border Clashes"
commentator: Lorenz LUTHI (McGill U.)
Commentator: Lorenz Lhuti (McGill University)

18:30～ reception (Aspen Hotel)

Friday, July 8, 2011

10:00～12:00
session 4 Roundtable on Archives and Archival Projects
Chair: MINAGAWA Shugo (Emeritus, Hokkaido University) Japanese POW Project --- TOMITA Takeshi (Seikei U.) Japan --- GABE Masaaki (Ryukyu U.) Korea --- KURATA Hideya (National Defense Academy of
Japan)
Russia --- Sergey RADCHENKO (Nottingham U.)
Commentator: SHIMOTOMAI Nobuo (Hosei U.)

13:30～15:30
session 5 New Recently-declassified Evidence on Sino-Indian Border Conflict
Chair: HAYASHI Tadayuki (Kyoto Women’s University) Lorenz LUTHI (McGill U.) "Seeing Both Sides of the Himalayas: New Indian and Chinese Documentation" James HERSHBERG (George Washington U.) "U.S.-Indian Relations and the Sino-Indian Border War of 1962: New Evidence on John Kenneth Galbraith and the Downfall of Krishna Menon"
SHEN Zhihua (East China Normal U.)
"The Sino-Korean Border Agreement of 1962"
Commentator: YOSHIDA Osamu (Hiroshima U.)

16:00～17:30
final discussion session
Preliminary Conclusions, Emerging Linkages, Unresolved Gaps and Future Agendas
Chair: David WOLFF (SRC)

Organizing Committee of the Symposium
rp@slav.hokudai.ac.jp
TEL: (+81)-011-706-4809
FAX: (+81)-011-706-4952