Getting it wrong : regional cooperation and the Commonwealth of Independent States / Martha Brill Olcott, Anders Åslund, and Sherman W. Garnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olcott, Martha Brill, 1949-

Contributor:

Åslund, Anders, 1952-

Garnett, Sherman W., 1955-

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commonwealth of Independent States.

Former Soviet republics.

Physical Description:

viii, 271 pages : map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, [1999]

Summary:

Written by three of the West's leading experts on the former Soviet Union, this book offers a comprehensive assessment of how and why the Commonwealth of Independent States failed.

Contents:

1. The Failure of the CIS 1

The Birth of the CIS 4

The Rocky Start of the CIS 7

No Trust of Russia 11

The Goals of the CIS 16

New Understandings of Sovereignty 22

The Late CIS: Holding on to Sovereignty 25

A New Kind of Union 28

2. CIS Economic Integration 37

The Formation of the CIS Economic System 38

The End of State Trade 42

The Establishment of New Currencies and a New Payments System 46

The Nature of Energy Trade within the CIS 52

Rising Protectionism Instead of Economic Integration 56

Development of Intra-CIS Trade, 1992-1997 58

Impact of the Russian Financial Crisis in 1998 65

Prospects for Economic Integration 69

Alternatives to Failure 71

3. The Failure to Establish an Integrated Security Structure 77

Russian Interests and Intentions for CIS Security Integration 79

National Armies Not Integration 83

Border Guards, Air Defense, and Peacekeeping 87

Why CIS Security Mechanisms Have Failed 94

Trying to Compensate Bilaterally for CIS Failure 96

4. The CIS and National Strategies for State Building 109

Kazakhstan: Integration and State Building 111

Kyrgyzstan: Attempting to Keep the Way to the World Open 120

Ukraine: Nation Building but Little Economic Reform 128

Georgia: Between Russia and the World 136

Common Features 143

5. Regional Alternatives to the CIS 157

The Central Asian Economic Community 158

The Guuam Group 166

The Customs Union 170

Russian-Belarusian Integration 172

Regional Efforts in Perspective 178

6. The CIS and the Outside World 187

Political Challenges 188

Economic Challenges 196

Security Challenges 204

Limited Cooperation 212

7. What Future Does the CIS Have? 223

The Legacy of the Past 224

Tasks the CIS Has Resolved 230

Tasks at Which the CIS Has Failed 232

Remaining Challenges 233

Looking Ahead 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-254).

ISBN:

0870031716

OCLC:

42901460