title: The Russian-U.S. Borderland: Opportunities and Barriers, Desires and Fears
abstract: The paper focuses on the Russia-U.S. cross-border area that lies in the Bering Sea region. Employing the concept of geographical proximity, I argue that the U.S.-Russian proximity works in a limited number of cases and for relatively few kinds of actors, such as companies supplying Chukotka with American goods, border guards conducting rescue operations, organizers of environmental projects and cruise tours, and aboriginal communities. The impressive territorial proximity between Asia and North 
journal: Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (Hokkaido University)