Industrialization in the process of economic reform : comparative analysis of China, Russia, and India / Akira Uegaki -- A comparison of trade policy reform in China, India, and Russia / Tomoo Marukawa and Yugo Konno -- Emergence of regional powers in the international financial system / Shinichiro Tabata -- Power and limitations of dominant party control : United Russia, the Indian Congress, and the Chinese Communist Party compared / Atsushi Ogushi and Yuko Adachi -- Client, agent or bystander? : patronage and village leadership in India, Russia and China / Fumiki Tahara -- Loss of political leadership and passive "triple transformation" in the former Soviet Union : a comparison with China's reform strategy / Liang Tang -- The political consequences of peace : China's retreat for survival, 1988-1991 / Yoshifumi Nakai -- India's pragmatic diplomacy with major powers : a comparative study of the strategic partnership with the US, China, and Russia / Toru Ito -- Autonomous regions in the Eurasian borderlands as a legacy of the First World War / Yoshiro Ikeda -- Empires and sharia : a comparison of colonial Islamic legal systems / Jun Akiba -- Delineating contours : portrayal of regional powers in British Asian migrant literature / Hisae Komatsu -- Illusion and mirror : iages of China in the contemporary Russian literature / Go Koshino -- UNESCO world heritage in regional powers : changing representation of cultural heritage of religious interest / Sanami Takahashi, Noriko Maejima, and Hiroshi Kobayashi.