The unresolved territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over
the South Kuril Islands/Northern Territories remains the largest
obstacle to concluding a peace treaty and fully normalising
bilateral relations between the two nations. This book traces the
evolution of transnational relations between subnational public
authorities in Hokkaido and Sakhalin, examining the
interrelationship between these ties and the Russo-Japanese
territorial dispute.
The book investigates why the development of Hokkaido-Sakhalin
relations has failed to create, at the subnational level, an
environment conducive to resolving (kankyo seibi) the South Kuril
Islands/Northern Territories dispute. Brad Williams suggests that
kankyo seibi has not worked primarily because Russia's troubled
transition to a liberal democratic market economy has manifested
itself in ways that have ultimately increased the South Kuril
Islands' intrinsic and instrumental value for the Sakhalin public
and regional elite. This in turn has limited the impact from the
twin transnational processes of cultural and economic exchange in
alleviating opposition to the transferral of these disputed islands
to Japan.
Drawing upon a wealth of primary and secondary sources from both
countries, this book utilises levels of analysis and an analytical
framework that incorporates national and subnational, as well as
governmental and non-governmental forces to discuss a relatively
unexplored aspect of Russo-Japanese relations. As such, Resolving
the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute will appeal to students and
scholars of Asian politics, international relations and
post-communist states.
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