A Kolosov
Biographic Data
| ID | 4451702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Kolosov |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kolosov |
| SIGNATURE | KOLOSOV A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Geography |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2817-9463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Border Studies: Development of the Theory and Major Trends in a Changing Geopolitical Environment
The author aims to briefly analyze the objective reasons for the growing interest in studying political, administrative, and cultural borders (border studies), which has over the past 30 years turned into an important interdisciplinary field, and the progress of their theory. Diverse approaches to study of borders can be divided into two large types: pragmatic and critical. The traditional pragmatic approach, based on analysis of border functions…
Modern Russian Borderlands: Problems of Study and Some Conclusions
A comparative analysis has been carried out on the demographic and socioeconomic dynamics of the border regions of Russia and neighboring countries, and the nature, mechanisms, and institutions of cross-border cooperation. The theoretical basis of the article is the concept of bordering, according to which border studies focus on the constant process of change in the regime, functions, and social significance of borders as a result of shifts in t…
Evolution of the Political Landscape of Moscow as Capital
Political landscape includes a wide range of tangible and intangible phenomena. The appearance of a capital is not only the political history of the state imprinted in buildings and monuments, but also a reflection of the ideas of the national elite about its social support, development prospects, the outside world, and diverse social ideas about space. Material objects, which shape urban environment, representative buildings of federal and regio…
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
This paper aims to study how geopolitical shifts affect regional economies and their structures. Border functions and regimes act as tools for the economy and society to adapt to the redistribution of political influence, movements of people, goods, capital and information between integration associations, individual countries and their cores. A changed environment may slow down the development of some industries (and even cause them to decline) …
The 'Pivot to the East' and China in Russian Discourse
Using the approaches of critical geopolitics, the authors compare Russian official, expert and media discourses on Russian-Chinese relations and China including such issues as its domestic and foreign policies, its role in the world, economic development and military potential. To study the official political discourse, more than 300 official documents were collected, including speeches, presentations and interviews by Russian leaders from 2012 t…
Geopolitics and Political Geography in Russia: Global Context and National Characteristics
Against the backdrop of global trends, the main directions, methodological approaches, and the most striking research results in the field of geopolitics and political geography in 2011–2021 are considered. Political geography is being widely integrated with neighboring scientific fields. Russian political geography and, to a much lesser extent, geopolitics are based on a wide range of concepts known in world literature. Researchers in these area…
Impact of Depopulation on Political Life and Legitimacy of Unrecognized States (a Case Study of Transnistria)
The rapid depopulation that covered vast regions of Central and Eastern Europe has had long-lasting consequences not only for their socioeconomic, but also political development. For unrecognized polities, the ability to retain population became an important criterion for successful competition with the mother state for citizens’ loyalty, the legitimacy of political regimes, and claims to sovereignty. The aim of the study is to identify the impac…
The Role of an Open Border in the Development of Peripheral Border Regions: The Case of Russian-Belarusian Borderland
Does an open border necessarily contribute to a higher level of cross-border interactions in comparison to a stricter border regime, to intensification of cross-border contacts and bring social and economic benefits for border regions? Border location of a region often means that it belongs to the economic and social periphery of a country. Is an open border a tool to destroy the vicious circle of interdependence between border and peripheral loc…
Territorial Gradients of Socioeconomic Development of Russia’s Borderland
Socioeconomic differences in different parts of Russia’s borderland are analyzed. Based on a compiled database of statistical indicators for 2000–2016 characterizing demographic, economic, and social development, as well as external economic ties of Russia’s border regions and neighboring countries, the territorial gradients on both sides of the Russian border are assessed on a comparative basis. An increase in differences in the demographic pote…
Regionalisation in Northern Europe and the Northern Dimension in Russian political discourse
The progress and sustainability of international cross-border region formation is a major concern for Russia, a country bordering sixteen states. In the early 2000s, the development of regions with Russian participation was at its height in northwestern Europe. Cross-border regions arise both naturally, stemming from various functional relations, and as a result of political decisions. In the latter case, political discourse is an important facto…
Postsocialist and Post‐Soviet Geography
Although it is hardly possible to speak about a specific “postsocialist” geography, it still has some common features inherited from the socialist past, particularly in the institutional structure. Its current development is characterized by internationalization and Europeanization. Some common themes and shifts in focus can be distinguished. In postsocialist countries Russian geography has a place apart because of the size of the country and a r…
Economic and social reforms in the North Caucasus: Goals, limitations, problems, and results
Problems regarding the development of the North Caucasus have been key issues on the agenda of federal and regional authorities for many years. Their visions of the possibilities and methods of development vary widely. Practically all regional elites place emphasis on the uniqueness of their republics, while the federal authorities, on the contrary, seek to move beyond the asymmetry of the relationships, seeing the solution to the problem as a br…
Internationalization of science and regional political studies (the case of the Caucasus)
Building identities in post-Soviet “de facto states”: Cultural and political icons in Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Transdniestria, and Abkhazia
For states that have recently declared their independence but remained unrecognized “de facto states,” building a national identity is critical in the face of international rejection of their political status. Key elements of this new or re-animated national identity are political and cultural icons symbolizing the new political entity but with historical antecedents. Following Anthony Smith’s ethno-symbolism approach to the study of nationalism …
The rise and fall of “Novorossiya: Examining support for a separatist geopolitical imaginary in southeast Ukraine
In the spring of 2014, some anti-Maidan protestors in southeast Ukraine, in alliance with activists from Russia, agitated for the creation of a large separatist entity on Ukrainian territory. These efforts sought to revive a historic region called Novorossiya (“New Russia”) on the northern shores of the Black Sea that was created by Russian imperial colonizers. In public remarks, Vladimir Putin cited Novorossiya as a historic and contemporary hom…
The Geopolitical Legacy of the Russian Revolution
The essays collected in this forum discuss the geopolitical legacy of the Russian Revolution of 1917, one of the most momentous political events of the twentieth century. From a range of different academic disciplines and perspectives, the authors consider how the profound transformations in society and politics were refracted through space and geography, and how enduring these refractions proved to be. The authors focus on three themes that have…
The barrier function of Russia’s borders
Research of state borders has long discussed a contradiction typical of many countries, between growth in cross-border flows under the influence of globalization and regional integration processes and the persistent, sometimes intensifying, barrier function of borders. Barrier functions, along with contact functions, are the main ones of any border. This article considers their relations in regard to intensifying contrasts in the political–legal,…
Results of the Policy of Post-Soviet Economic and Social Reforms in the North Caucasus
Who identifies with the “Russian World”? Geopolitical attitudes in southeastern Ukraine, Crimea, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria
The concept of the Russian world (Russkii mir) re-entered geopolitical discourse after the end of the Soviet Union. Though it has long historical roots, the practical definition and geopolitical framing of the term has been debated and refined in Russian political and cultural circles during the years of the Putin presidency. Having both linguistic-cultural and geopolitical meanings, the concept of the Russian world remains controversial, and out…
Geography of camps in the Stalin epoch: Experiences and lessons
Integrated forms of urban settlement pattern in Russia, Europe, and worldwide
This paper explores a set of concepts denoting a hierarchy of integrated systems of urban settlement patterns ranging from the most common urban agglomeration to the still quite uncommon global city area, including concepts such as conurbation, metropolis, megapolis, megapolis, world city, and global city. The interpretations of these terms in different countries are discussed. Some terms are widely used, while others are used only in some countr…
Cities, rural areas and urbanization: Russia and the world
The paper starts a thematic unit based on the results of International Laboratory (Groupe de recherché international) project “Urban Areas and Networks”, which was launched in mid-2012, according to the agreement between the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and the French National Center for Scientific Research. Besides the Russian researchers from the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences and their French colleagu…
Structural features of the economy and gradients of socioeconomic development of the border regions of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine
The authors analyze the dynamics of the main socioeconomic indices in neighboring regions of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. They evaluate the terrotiorial gradients along the borders as one of the main factors of cross-border cooperation. They characterize demographic differences, depths, and directions of economic transformation of neighboring regions, as well as their influence on existing cross-border interaction and outlooks for different form…
The Youth in Kaliningrad, Gdansk and Klaipeda: Geopolitical Vision of the World, Identity and Images of the Other
This work juxtaposes the analysis of the federal discourse on the exclave position of the Kaliningrad region in 1994Kaliningrad region in -2012 based based on the screening by the Nezavisimaya gazeta and the results of surveys of students at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University and the Universities of Gdansk and Klaipeda using a similar questionnaire
Northern Caucasus in the Russian geopolitical discourse
Задача работы – с помощью модифицированной методики анализа геополитического дискурса, предложенной Дж. Тоалом, определить российский геополитический дискурс о Северном Кавказе и сопоставить его с мнениями жителей самого региона. Использованы три типа источников. Во-первых, рассмотрены оценки наиболее значимых событий в регионе главой российского государства. Во-вторых, изучены публикации по Северному Кавказу в течение двух годичных периодов (окт…
The rise and fall of “Novorossiya: Examining support for a separatist geopolitical imaginary in southeast Ukraine
In the spring of 2014, some anti-Maidan protestors in southeast Ukraine, in alliance with activists from Russia, agitated for the creation of a large separatist entity on Ukrainian territory. These efforts sought to revive a historic region called Novorossiya (“New Russia”) on the northern shores of the Black Sea that was created by Russian imperial colonizers. In public remarks, Vladimir Putin cited Novorossiya as a historic and contemporary hom…
Who identifies with the “Russian World”? Geopolitical attitudes in southeastern Ukraine, Crimea, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria
The concept of the Russian world (Russkii mir) re-entered geopolitical discourse after the end of the Soviet Union. Though it has long historical roots, the practical definition and geopolitical framing of the term has been debated and refined in Russian political and cultural circles during the years of the Putin presidency. Having both linguistic-cultural and geopolitical meanings, the concept of the Russian world remains controversial, and out…
Building identities in post-Soviet “de facto states”: Cultural and political icons in Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Transdniestria, and Abkhazia
For states that have recently declared their independence but remained unrecognized “de facto states,” building a national identity is critical in the face of international rejection of their political status. Key elements of this new or re-animated national identity are political and cultural icons symbolizing the new political entity but with historical antecedents. Following Anthony Smith’s ethno-symbolism approach to the study of nationalism …
The Role of an Open Border in the Development of Peripheral Border Regions: The Case of Russian-Belarusian Borderland
Does an open border necessarily contribute to a higher level of cross-border interactions in comparison to a stricter border regime, to intensification of cross-border contacts and bring social and economic benefits for border regions? Border location of a region often means that it belongs to the economic and social periphery of a country. Is an open border a tool to destroy the vicious circle of interdependence between border and peripheral loc…
Geography of camps in the Stalin epoch: Experiences and lessons
The 'Pivot to the East' and China in Russian Discourse
Using the approaches of critical geopolitics, the authors compare Russian official, expert and media discourses on Russian-Chinese relations and China including such issues as its domestic and foreign policies, its role in the world, economic development and military potential. To study the official political discourse, more than 300 official documents were collected, including speeches, presentations and interviews by Russian leaders from 2012 t…
Internationalization of science and regional political studies (the case of the Caucasus)
Northern Caucasus in the Russian geopolitical discourse
Задача работы – с помощью модифицированной методики анализа геополитического дискурса, предложенной Дж. Тоалом, определить российский геополитический дискурс о Северном Кавказе и сопоставить его с мнениями жителей самого региона. Использованы три типа источников. Во-первых, рассмотрены оценки наиболее значимых событий в регионе главой российского государства. Во-вторых, изучены публикации по Северному Кавказу в течение двух годичных периодов (окт…
La géographie des diasporas et les communautés arménienne, juive, grecque de l'ex-URSS
L'étude des diasporas devient un nouvel enjeu de recherche en Russie, à la mesure des intenses mouvements de population déclenchés par la désintégration de l'URSS. Elle demande un effort de conceptualisation et de comparaison. Les comportements des diasporas arménienne, juive et grecque de l'ex-URSS sont très différents : la première se renforce en Russie, les deux autres s'y réduisent, en rapport avec les situations locales et générales
Electoral Preferences in Cities and Large Towns of Russia: Types and Stability
В статье исследуется устойчивость электоральных предпочтений горожан на думских выборах 2003 г. и прослеживаются те изменения, которые произошли по сравнению с предыдущими кампаниями. На основе анализа данных по 142 городов РФ авторы приходят к выводу об относительной независимости поведения электората крупнейших городов России от особенностей региональных политических культур и углубляющемся разрыве между политическими предпочтениями жителей рег…
Russian regional capitals as new international actors: The case of Yekaterinburg and Rostov
The authors consider theoretical approaches to the evaluation of international functions of large regional centres. They analyse the factors determining this activity and propose a number of quantitative and qualitative indicators helping to estimate its efficiency. A special attention is paid to the role of local governments in the development of foreign contacts. It is shown that Russian metropolitan centres have become highly involved in inter…
Selected conceptual issues in border studies
The paper is based on first results of the EUBORDERSCAPES project supported by the 7th European Framework Programme and revisits a number of major themes and concepts that have been important for the development of border studies in recent years. It also investigates emerging research perspectives that appear to be important drivers of conceptual change from the perspective of human geography. The authors stress that the present state of debate i…
Geopolitical worldview of Russian students
The paper summarizes some of the results of the project “The Vision of Europe in the World,” supported by the 7th European Framework Programme. On the basis of the materials of an opinion survey of 827 students in four Russian cities, the world geopolitical vision of young people and its dependence on the income, social status, education level, spatial mobility, gender, language skills, and personal experiences are analyzed. The findings are comp…
Integrated forms of urban settlement pattern in Russia, Europe, and worldwide
This paper explores a set of concepts denoting a hierarchy of integrated systems of urban settlement patterns ranging from the most common urban agglomeration to the still quite uncommon global city area, including concepts such as conurbation, metropolis, megapolis, megapolis, world city, and global city. The interpretations of these terms in different countries are discussed. Some terms are widely used, while others are used only in some countr…
Cities, rural areas and urbanization: Russia and the world
The paper starts a thematic unit based on the results of International Laboratory (Groupe de recherché international) project “Urban Areas and Networks”, which was launched in mid-2012, according to the agreement between the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and the French National Center for Scientific Research. Besides the Russian researchers from the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences and their French colleagu…
Structural features of the economy and gradients of socioeconomic development of the border regions of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine
The authors analyze the dynamics of the main socioeconomic indices in neighboring regions of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. They evaluate the terrotiorial gradients along the borders as one of the main factors of cross-border cooperation. They characterize demographic differences, depths, and directions of economic transformation of neighboring regions, as well as their influence on existing cross-border interaction and outlooks for different form…
The Youth in Kaliningrad, Gdansk and Klaipeda: Geopolitical Vision of the World, Identity and Images of the Other
This work juxtaposes the analysis of the federal discourse on the exclave position of the Kaliningrad region in 1994Kaliningrad region in -2012 based based on the screening by the Nezavisimaya gazeta and the results of surveys of students at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University and the Universities of Gdansk and Klaipeda using a similar questionnaire
Northern Caucasus in the Russian geopolitical discourse
Задача работы – с помощью модифицированной методики анализа геополитического дискурса, предложенной Дж. Тоалом, определить российский геополитический дискурс о Северном Кавказе и сопоставить его с мнениями жителей самого региона. Использованы три типа источников. Во-первых, рассмотрены оценки наиболее значимых событий в регионе главой российского государства. Во-вторых, изучены публикации по Северному Кавказу в течение двух годичных периодов (окт…
Geography of camps in the Stalin epoch: Experiences and lessons
The barrier function of Russia’s borders
Research of state borders has long discussed a contradiction typical of many countries, between growth in cross-border flows under the influence of globalization and regional integration processes and the persistent, sometimes intensifying, barrier function of borders. Barrier functions, along with contact functions, are the main ones of any border. This article considers their relations in regard to intensifying contrasts in the political–legal,…
Results of the Policy of Post-Soviet Economic and Social Reforms in the North Caucasus
Who identifies with the “Russian World”? Geopolitical attitudes in southeastern Ukraine, Crimea, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria
The concept of the Russian world (Russkii mir) re-entered geopolitical discourse after the end of the Soviet Union. Though it has long historical roots, the practical definition and geopolitical framing of the term has been debated and refined in Russian political and cultural circles during the years of the Putin presidency. Having both linguistic-cultural and geopolitical meanings, the concept of the Russian world remains controversial, and out…
Postsocialist and Post‐Soviet Geography
Although it is hardly possible to speak about a specific “postsocialist” geography, it still has some common features inherited from the socialist past, particularly in the institutional structure. Its current development is characterized by internationalization and Europeanization. Some common themes and shifts in focus can be distinguished. In postsocialist countries Russian geography has a place apart because of the size of the country and a r…
Economic and social reforms in the North Caucasus: Goals, limitations, problems, and results
Problems regarding the development of the North Caucasus have been key issues on the agenda of federal and regional authorities for many years. Their visions of the possibilities and methods of development vary widely. Practically all regional elites place emphasis on the uniqueness of their republics, while the federal authorities, on the contrary, seek to move beyond the asymmetry of the relationships, seeing the solution to the problem as a br…
Internationalization of science and regional political studies (the case of the Caucasus)
Building identities in post-Soviet “de facto states”: Cultural and political icons in Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Transdniestria, and Abkhazia
For states that have recently declared their independence but remained unrecognized “de facto states,” building a national identity is critical in the face of international rejection of their political status. Key elements of this new or re-animated national identity are political and cultural icons symbolizing the new political entity but with historical antecedents. Following Anthony Smith’s ethno-symbolism approach to the study of nationalism …
The rise and fall of “Novorossiya: Examining support for a separatist geopolitical imaginary in southeast Ukraine
In the spring of 2014, some anti-Maidan protestors in southeast Ukraine, in alliance with activists from Russia, agitated for the creation of a large separatist entity on Ukrainian territory. These efforts sought to revive a historic region called Novorossiya (“New Russia”) on the northern shores of the Black Sea that was created by Russian imperial colonizers. In public remarks, Vladimir Putin cited Novorossiya as a historic and contemporary hom…
The Geopolitical Legacy of the Russian Revolution
The essays collected in this forum discuss the geopolitical legacy of the Russian Revolution of 1917, one of the most momentous political events of the twentieth century. From a range of different academic disciplines and perspectives, the authors consider how the profound transformations in society and politics were refracted through space and geography, and how enduring these refractions proved to be. The authors focus on three themes that have…
Territorial Gradients of Socioeconomic Development of Russia’s Borderland
Socioeconomic differences in different parts of Russia’s borderland are analyzed. Based on a compiled database of statistical indicators for 2000–2016 characterizing demographic, economic, and social development, as well as external economic ties of Russia’s border regions and neighboring countries, the territorial gradients on both sides of the Russian border are assessed on a comparative basis. An increase in differences in the demographic pote…
Regionalisation in Northern Europe and the Northern Dimension in Russian political discourse
The progress and sustainability of international cross-border region formation is a major concern for Russia, a country bordering sixteen states. In the early 2000s, the development of regions with Russian participation was at its height in northwestern Europe. Cross-border regions arise both naturally, stemming from various functional relations, and as a result of political decisions. In the latter case, political discourse is an important facto…
The Role of an Open Border in the Development of Peripheral Border Regions: The Case of Russian-Belarusian Borderland
Does an open border necessarily contribute to a higher level of cross-border interactions in comparison to a stricter border regime, to intensification of cross-border contacts and bring social and economic benefits for border regions? Border location of a region often means that it belongs to the economic and social periphery of a country. Is an open border a tool to destroy the vicious circle of interdependence between border and peripheral loc…
Impact of Depopulation on Political Life and Legitimacy of Unrecognized States (a Case Study of Transnistria)
The rapid depopulation that covered vast regions of Central and Eastern Europe has had long-lasting consequences not only for their socioeconomic, but also political development. For unrecognized polities, the ability to retain population became an important criterion for successful competition with the mother state for citizens’ loyalty, the legitimacy of political regimes, and claims to sovereignty. The aim of the study is to identify the impac…
Geopolitics and Political Geography in Russia: Global Context and National Characteristics
Against the backdrop of global trends, the main directions, methodological approaches, and the most striking research results in the field of geopolitics and political geography in 2011–2021 are considered. Political geography is being widely integrated with neighboring scientific fields. Russian political geography and, to a much lesser extent, geopolitics are based on a wide range of concepts known in world literature. Researchers in these area…
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