Politics and Economics in the Russian Far East

Tsuneo Akaha is Professor of International Policy Studies and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, California.

• Part 1 Moscow and the Russian far East; Chapter 1 The Political Dimension, Robert Valliant; Chapter 2 The Security Dimension, Alexei V. Zagorsky; Part 2 Economic Development in the Russian far East; Chapter 3 Economic Challenge in the Russian far East, Tsuneo Akaha, Pavel A. Minakir, Kunio Okada; Chapter 4 Problems of Resource Development in the Russian far East, Evgenii B. Kovrigin; Chapter 5 Minerals and Mining in the Russian far East, James P. Dorian; Chapter 6 The Present Situation and Future Problems of Energy Production in the Russian far East, Takashi Murakami; Chapter 7 Environmental Challenge in the Russian far East, Tsuneo Akaha; Part 3 Russia, the Russian Far East and the Asia—Pacific Neighbors; Chapter 8 Russia and the United States in Northeast Asia and the Russian far East, Vladimir I. Ivanov; Chapter 9 The Russian far East in Russo–Japanese Relations, Nobuo Arai, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa; Chapter 10 Russo–Chinese Normalization from an International Perspective, James Clay Moltz; Chapter 11 Russia’s far East in Contemporary Russian–Korean Relations, Vladimir F. Li; Chapter 12 The Russian far East and Northeast Asia, Robert A. Manning; Chapter 13 Conclusion, Tsuneo Akaha;