Eurasian integration : challenges of transcontinental regionalism / Evgeny Vinokurov, Alexander Libman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vinokurov, Evgeny.

Contributor:

Libman, Alexander.

Series:

Euro-Asian studies (Palgrave (Firm))

Euro-Asian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

International economic relations.

Eurasia--Economic integration.

Eurasia.

Eurasia--Foreign economic relations.

Eurasia--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

This book examines the major economic and political transitions currently taking place in the Eurasian continent. Vinokurov and Libman provide a detailed account of various aspects of Eurasian integration, looking at both its bright side (trade, investments and joint infrastructure) and dark side (trafficking humans and drugs and the spread of diseases) and linking it to waves of 'Eurasian exchanges' in the past. The authors explore how political reality adapts and shapes the changing networks of economic interconnections and delineate a concept of 'pragmatic Eurasianism' necessary for understanding these linkages and sharply contrasting to the heavily ideological views of Eurasia that often dominate the political and social discussions. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Concept of Eurasian Integration

2 The Scope of Eurasian Integration 9

3 The Waves of Eurasian Exchange 30

4 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration in Eurasia 44

Part II Emerging Eurasian Economic Linkages

5 Spaghetti, Noodle and Lapsha: Continental Bias in Trade in Eurasia 65

6 Factor Flows in Eurasia: Mutual Investments, Evolving Eurasian Multinationals and Fragmented Labour Markets 74

Part III Infrastructure of Eurasian Integration

7 From a Trans-European and Trans-Asian to a Trans-Eurasian Vision of Transport Corridors 93

8 Borderless Energy: Common Electric Power Markets 118

9 Telecommunications Links across the Continent 127

Part IV Integration through Mutual Problems

10 Transborder Ecological Issues on the Continent 141

11 'Shadow Integration': Trafficking of Drugs, People and Arms, and the Effects of Microbes and Epidemics 151

Part V Formal Intergovernmental Cooperation

12 Variations between Political Systems 161

13 Integration of Large States 174

14 Sub-Regional Aspects of Eurasian Integration 187

Part VI Northern and Central Eurasia: The Successor of the Post-Soviet Area

15 From Post-Soviet to Eurasian Integration 201

16 Central Asia at the Crossroads: A Laboratory of Eurasian Integration 213

17 Conclusion 227.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-262) and index.

ISBN:

9780230302686

0230302688

OCLC:

795847627