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101674
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2010.
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The article examines the problem of transport connections between the adjoining districts of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China. It describes the main elements of the infrastructure servicing mutual cargo deliveries and their routes. The article analyzes the structure of cargoes and the dynamics of passenger flows. It also characterizes promising projects in the sphere of transport cooperation between the RF and the PRC in mid-term perspective.
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144479
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The relationship between India and the United States has transformed significantly since the Cold War, notwithstanding the denial regime imposed after the 1998 nuclear tests. In the complex 21st-century environment, both countries have articulated their strategic outreaches spanning the new geographical construct of a maritime configured Indo-Pacific. This article examines the coherence, correspondence and divergence in the approaches and the institutions of relevance in India's “Act East” and the US “Strategic Rebalance” through the “interest contiguity” paradigm. The salient aspects examined are the politico-diplomatic, economic and military security dimensions, by using a combinational of realist and rational choice theoretical prisms. The paper concludes that while there is a virtual coincidence of “interests’” between India and the US, their approaches and institutional frameworks are different in certain cases, driven by respective geopolitical, geoeconomic and geostrategic imperatives. The emerging positivity in the Indo–US relationship, like many other important engagements across the Indo-Pacific, will continue to contain a mix of cooperation and competition, which is not unusual and offers avenues for further strengthening of coordinated endeavours.
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072728
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2006.
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Despite recent literature pointing to the need for a multidimensional approach to border processes, transport links across borders are usually uncritically associated with cross-border 'integration'. This paper focuses on examining the roles played by transport facilities in border processes. It uses case studies of three key transport links at the border between Singapore and Johor, Malaysia. As would conventionally be expected, enhancing these links was often seen in terms of the economic opportunities expected to arise from the easing of bottlenecks. However, the findings also reveal multiple roles for the transport links at this border, many of which cannot be enlisted in any simple conception of cross-border integration, even when clear enhancement of the links is involved. These roles include: as 'filters' (or 'valves') used to encourage or discourage certain flows; as 'gateways' asserting territoriality; and as 'bargaining chips' in the bilateral relationship. A role as 'collision points' between policy regimes was also surprisingly important. However, contrary to usual expectations none of the transport links examined appear in the guise of 'bridges', contributing towards integrated governance. These findings highlight the complexity of border processes, and underline the contingent interactions between different dimensions of cross-border processes sometimes simplistically conflated as 'integration'.
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