Eurasian economic integration : law, policy and politics / edited by Rilka Dragneva, Kataryna Wolczuk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dragneva, Rilka.

Wolczuk, Kataryna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eurasia--Economic conditions--21st century.

Eurasia.

Eurasia--Economic integration.

Eurasia--Foreign economic relations.

Eurasia--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this well-researched and detailed book, the authors provide an extensive and critical analysis of post-Soviet regional integration. After almost two decades of unfulfilled integration promises, a new - improved and functioning - regime emerged in the post-Soviet space: the Eurasian Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan (ECU). The contributors seek to explain this puzzling and politically significant development by examining the ECU's origins, institutional architecture, key driving forces and emerging implications. Their investigation reveals that the ECU is an ambitious and

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; Table of cases; Table of legislation; 1. The Eurasian Customs Union: framing the analysis; PART I Legal and institutional framework of the ECU; 2. The development of Eurasian economic integration; 3. The legal and institutional dimensions of the Eurasian Customs Union; 4. Russia, the Eurasian Customs Union and the WTO; PART II The ECU as viewed from the member states; 5. Russia and the Eurasian Customs Union; 6. Russia, the Eurasian Customs Union and the Asian dimension; 7. Belarus: player and pawn in the integration game

8. Kazakhstan and Eurasian economic integration: quick start, mixed results and uncertain future*PART III The ECU and its ramifications for the European Union; 9. The impact of the Eurasian Customs Union on EU-Russia relations; 10. Eurasian economic integration: implications for the EU Eastern policy*; 11. Commitment, asymmetry and flexibility: making sense of Eurasian economic integration; Appendix 1: Regional integration initiatives and organizations in the post-Soviet space; Appendix 2: Post-Soviet countries' applications and accessions to the WTO; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).

ISBN:

1-78254-476-3

OCLC:

862049915