Unrecognized States in the Former Socialist Countries: multi-layered and Comparative Approaches

在2005学年，我们将重点放在未被承认国家的国内政治和政治制度，以及史学、民族起源和关于“谁先在领土上定居”的争论上。我们在纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫和其他领土进行了实地调查。2006年3月，我们在札幌和东京组织了一次研讨会，邀请了德涅斯特河沿岸的一位历史学家。在2006学年，我们研究了未被承认国家的问题如何影响其前宗主国（格鲁吉亚、阿塞拜疆和摩尔多瓦）的国内政治。我们在阿布哈兹、德涅斯特河沿岸和布鲁塞尔的欧盟总部进行了实地考察。2007年2月，我们组织了一个关于上述主题的研讨会，邀请了一位来自德国的政治学家。此外，我们还出版了一本俄文文集，题为《围绕未被承认国家的史学对话：普里涅斯特、纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫、亚美尼亚、南奥塞梯和格鲁吉亚》。在2007学年，我们集中精力在国际上宣传研究成果。我们在新奥尔良举行的美国斯拉夫研究促进会的年会上组织了一个小组，邀请了来自英国、德国和墨西哥的专家。我们出版了一本俄文文集，名为《黑海沿岸宏观区域背景下的德涅斯特河沿岸地区》。这个作品集展示了我们集体研究的未来方向。注意到所有后苏联未被承认的国家都出现在黑海沿岸，我们将分析这一事实的宏观区域背景。在2006-07年期间，我们进行了一项合同研究，收集纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫共和国的传记数据。

In the academic year of 2005, we focused on domestic politics and political regimes of the unrecognized states, as well as on the issues in historiography, ethnic origins and the debate around "who began to inhabit first in the territory." We conducted fieldwork in Nagorno-Karabakh and other territories. In March 2006, we organized a seminar in Sapporo and Tokyo, inviting a historian from Transnistria.In the academic year of 2006, we examined how the issue of unrecognized states affected domestic politics of their former suzerains (Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Moldova). We conducted fieldwork in Abkhazia, Transnistria, and at the EU headquarter in Brussels. In February 2007, we organized a seminar on the aforementioned topic, inviting a political scientist from Germany. Moreover, we published a collection in Russian, titled "Historiographic Dialogue around Unrecognized States: Pridnestr, Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, South Ossetia, and Georgia."In the academic year of 2007, we concentrated our endeavor to publicize the research results internationally. We organized a panel at the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in New Orleans, inviting specialists from England, Germany, and Mexico. We published a collection in Russian, titled "Transnistria in the Macroregional Context of the Black Sea Rims." This collection demonstrates the future direction of our collective research. Paying attention to the fact that all the post-Soviet unrecognized states emerged in the Black Sea Rims, we will analyze macro-regional backgrounds of this fact.During 2006-07, we conducted a contract research to collect biographic data of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.