Internationalization or Adaptation? Historical Legacy, Geopolitics and Border Cooperation in Belgorod Oblast

Author(s): Vladimir Kolossov
Series: Project Regionalization of Russian Foreign and Security Policy
Issue: 15
Publisher(s): Forschungsstelle für Sicherheitspolitik und Konfliktanalyse, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2002

The paper characterizes the principal fields of Belgorod Oblast's international contacts, and describes the most important social, economic and political factors determining the oblast's position vis-à-vis the federal center and its international contacts mainly with neighboring Ukrainian regions. It also assesses the extent to which Belgorod's international political and economic relations make it an internationalized region.

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