Reporting period – February 2002 – September 2002

Main Activities:

1. Research trips:

- Sodertorns hogskola (The University College of Southern Stockholm), School of Baltic and East European Studies, March 2002. Main experts with whom I have contacted were: Professor David Gaunt, Professor Helene Carlback, and Professor Olav Knudsen. I gave a lecture in FOA (Swedish Defense Institution) on ’Russian Regionalism as Seen from Russia-EU Relationship’.

- Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI). Main experts with whom I have contacted were: Dr. Pertti Joenniemi, Dr. Tarja Cronberg, Dr. Stefano Guzzini, Dr. Anna Leander. I have written a paper to be published in COPRI Working Papers Series entitled ”Ideas, Images and Their Producers: The Case of Region Building in the North West Federal District”.

2. Papers published:

- “Russian Financial-Industrial Groups and the Regions: Toward New Patterns of Horizontal Networking”, in International Journal of Political Economy, fall 2000

- ”The role of the regions in Russian security policy”, in Cooperation and Development, 2:2, 2002 (published by the Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College, London). Pp. 47-67

- ”Democratic Institution Building in Russia’s Regions: Global Challenges, Domestic Responses”, in Slovo. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Russian, Eurasian, Central and East European Affairs, Volume 14, 2002

- ”Regional Security Communities: the Case of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast”, in ”Security in the Post-Soviet Area”, collection of articles to be published by Volgograd University Publishers, forthcoming

- ”Regional Political Process in Nizhny Novgorod as Seen Through The Prism of Rational Choice Theory”, in ”Political, Economic and Social Transformations in Nizhny Novgorod Region, 1991-2001”. Nizhny Novgorod: the Center for Socio-Economic Expertise, 2002;

- ”Regional Security Communities: the Case of Nizhny Novgorod”, in: ”Security Arrangements in Post-Soviet Area”, to be published by Volgograd State University in fall 2002;

- ”Global Chellenges, Local Responses. New Parameters of Sub-national Security in the Volga Federal District”, at http://www.auditorium.ru/conf/conf_fulltext/makar.pdf

- ’External Relations of Tatarstan: Neither Inside, Nor Outside, But Alongside with Russia’ (co-authored with Vasily Valuev), Working Paper N 23, Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, Zurich, at http://www.fsk.ethz.ch

- ”On the Way to Globalization: Administrative and Networking Strategies of Russia’s Regions” (co-authored with Oleg Alexandrov). Working Paper N 19, Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, Zurich, at http://www.fsk.ethz.ch

- “Political and Administrative Aspects of Corruption in the Volga Federal District”. Analytical Report (editor). Nizhny Novgorod Center for Socio-Economic Expertise and Eurasia Foundation, 2002

3. Conferences attended:

- ”Political and Administrative Aspects of Corruption in the Volga Federal District”, Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University, February 2002 (paper on Regional Variations of Corruptive Practices in International Contexts);

- ”Transparent Borders”, project seminar under the aegis of Academic & Educational Forum for International Relations, Voronezh, February 2002 (paper on ”Border Issues in Theories of International Relations”);

- Gorchakov Conference, Moscow, MGIMO, April 2002 (paper on ”Metaphors of Regionalism in Russian Political Discourse”);

- COPRI-based ”Euroseminar” led by Professor Barry Buzan (May 2002);

- conference in Samara (Russia) on ”Modern Conservatism”, April 2002 (paper on ”Liberal and Conservative Reactions to Globalization in Russia’s Regions”);

- conference ”Culture. Language. Activity” held in Naberezhnie Chelny (Tatarstan), September 2002;

- ”Power Disparity, Identity and Cooperative Security”, project seminar at Sodertorns hogskola, Stockholm, led by Professor Olav Knudsen (August 2002);

4. Research consultants and advisors. There were three scholars with whom I have worked most closely and who have served as most important commentators of my project papers:

- Dr. Pertti Joenniemi, Senior researcher, Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, Denmark;

- Dr. Olav Knudsen, Professor of International Relations, Sodertorns hogskola, Stockholm;

- Dr. Jeronim Perovic, researcher, Center for Conflict Studies, Zurich.

It is my suggestion that first two of them have to be approved as my IPF project mentors.

5. Scheduled activities for the second period of the fellowship:

- conference in St.Petersburg on ”Civil Society and Good Governance”, October 2002, under the auspices of ”Strategia” Center and Transparency International (paper on ”Regional Discourses on Anti-corruption Issues”);

- regional conference on ”Rethinking Modernity”, Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University and Instiute for Humanitarian and Political Studies (Moscow), September 2002;

- expert seminar ”Globalists and Anti-globalists in the Volga Federal District”, Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University and IREX, October 2002;

- expert seminar ”Gender Security Issues in the Volga Federal District Regions”, Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University and Open Society Institute, November 2002.

6. Alterations. Taking into account the decision of the Zurich-based Center for Conflict Studies to reimburse my research trip to this institution, I hereby solicit IPF approval of covering one research trip to the Sodertorns University College in March 2002 from my project budget (no additional funds are needed).

Reporting period – February 2002 – September 2002

August 31, 2002