The Cis, the EU and Russia

Challenges of Integration
2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-52106-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Studies in Central and Eastern Europe

This book focuses on the difficulties facing Russia, Ukraine and Belarus with regard to their integration into both the CIS and the encroaching EU. It analyzes the links between the integration mechanisms of the CIS and EU and the various state policies towards, and the elite interests in, the territory of the former Soviet Union.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malfliet, K.

Verpoest, L.

Vinokurov, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART I: IN PURSUIT OF INTEGRATION IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE The Post-Soviet Space: From the USSR to the Commonwealth of Independent States and Beyond; I.Kobrinskaya Russian Approaches to Integration in the Post-Soviet Space in the 2000s; E.Vinokurov Russia's Pursuit of its Eurasian Security Interests: Weighing the CIS and Alternative Bilateral-Multilateral Arrangements; J.Willerton & M.Beznosov PART II: THE EU AND THE POST-SOVIET SPACE The Clash of Integration Processes? The Shadow Effect of the Enlarged EU on its Eastern Neighbours; T.Casier EU Policies towards Russia: Secondary Integration by Association?; H.Moroff EU- Russia Relations in EU Neighbourhood Policies; M.Vahl PART III: PATTERNS OF INTEGRATION Parallels and Divergences of Integration in Ukraine and Belarus; L.Verpoest Patterns of Integration and Regime Compatibility: Ukraine between the CIS and the EU; R.Dragneva & A.Dimitrova Integration by Absorption: New Subjects for the Russian Federation; G.Kurdiukov & K.Malfliet The EU-Russia Common Economic Space and the Policy-Taker Problem; E.Vinokurov Conclusion: Challenges of Integration: the EU, the CIS and Russia

Über Autor(innen)

MIKHAIL A. BEZNOSOV Ph.D. candidate in political science, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
TOM CASIER Assistant Professor and Programme Director of the MA in European Studies, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
ANTOANETA L. DIMITROVA Lecturer, Department of Public Administration, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
RILKA DRAGNEVA Institute of East European Law and Russian Studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
IRINA KOBRINSKAYA Executive Director of the Foundation for Prospective Studies and Initiatives (Russian think-tank) and leading research fellow at the IMEMO of the Russian Academy of Science, Russia
GENNADI I. KURDIUKOV Head of Constitutional and International Law, Ulyanov -Lenin Kazan State University, Russia
HOLGER MOROFF Lecturer, University of Jena, Germany
MARIUS VAHL Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels
JOHN P. WILLERTON Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA