David Lane - The Eurasian Project in Global Perspective

The Eurasian Project in Global Perspective

Regional associations have become major players in international politics and economics. The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), composed of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, is considered as a player which will strengthen the international influence and international trade of the post-socialist countries. It is intended to become a parallel association to the European Union.

This comprehensive volume considers the potential global role of the EEU. A major problem outlined is the balancing of relations between the EU and the West on the one hand, and China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on the other. The book explores the impact of the global crisis as well as a consideration of the EEU in the world system of states. It also examines the EEUs relationship with other regional developments, in relation to the EU and to the outer circle of post-socialist states that joined neither the EU nor the EEU. It concludes by considering Eurasia in the Asian context, looking at the two central Asian countries (Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), relations with China and the relationship between the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the EEU.

This book was originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.

David Lane is an Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, UK, and previously was Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

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The chapters in this book were originally published in European Politics and Society, volume 17, S1 (2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Preface

Preface

David Lane

European Politics and Society, volume 17, S1 (2016), pp. 13

Chapter 1

How the Eurasian elites envisage the role of the EEU in global perspective

Richard Sakwa

European Politics and Society, volume 17, S1 (2016), pp. 422

Chapter 2

The global crisis and its impact on the Eurasian Economic Union

Ruslan Dzarasov

European Politics and Society, volume 17, S1 (2016), pp. 2334

Chapter 3

The Eurasian Union and global value chains

Elena Ustyuzhanina

European Politics and Society, volume 17, S1 (2016), pp. 3545

Chapter 4

Post-socialist regions in the world system

David Lane

European Politics and Society, volume 17, S1 (2016), pp. 4666

Chapter 5

Eastern partnership and the Eurasian Union: bringing the political back in the eastern region

Elena A. Korosteleva

European Politics and Society, volume 17, S1 (2016), pp. 6781

Chapter 6

The new Eurasia: post-Soviet space between Russia, Europe and China

Vsevolod Samokhvalov

European Politics and Society, volume 17, S1 (2016), pp. 8296

Chapter 7

Eurasian Economic Union integration in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

Diana T. Kudaibergenova

European Politics and Society, volume 17, S1 (2016), pp. 97112

Chapter 8

The Eurasian Economic Union and Chinas silk road: implications for the RussianChinese relationship

Jeanne L. Wilson

European Politics and Society, volume 17, S1 (2016), pp. 113132

Chapter 9

Eurasian encounters: the Eurasian Economic Union and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Ivaylo Gatev and Glenn Diesen

European Politics and Society, volume 17, S1 (2016), pp. 133150

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Glenn Diesen is a Scholarly Teaching Fellow at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University, Australia.

Ruslan Dzarasov is Head of the Department of Political Economy, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

Ivaylo Gatev is Assistant Professor in European Politics at the School of International Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, Peoples Republic of China.

Elena A. Korosteleva is Professor of International Politics, Director of Internalisation Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and Director of the Global Europe Centre (Professional Studies) at the School of Politics and International Relations, Rutherford College, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

Diana T. Kudaibergenova is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK.

David Lane is an Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, UK, and previously was Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, UK.

Vsevolod Samokhvalov is based at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK.

Elena Ustyuzhanina is based at the Department of Economics, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

Jeanne L. Wilson is Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Russian Studies and International Relations Coordinator at the Department of Political Science, Wheaton College, USA.

The papers in this collection examine the manifold international dimensions confronting the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). Following the disintegration of the political association of the Warsaw Pact and the economic area of Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the post-socialist societies were absorbed initially in defining their individual identities as independent states. The new international architecture which surrounded them, however, consisted of regional associations, particularly the European Community which later became the European Union. (This association of states is referred to here as the EU, despite differences in nomenclature). The responses of the post-socialist states have been predicated on forming or joining regional associations which were believed to enhance their political security and economic well-being. Two major regional developments occurred soon after the dissolution of the socialist bloc: the movement of the central European post-socialist states into the European Union (EU) and the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) which encompassed the former states of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (excluding the former Baltic Republics). The twenty-first century has witnessed the inclusion of the former central European post-socialist states into what is now a twenty-eight country strong European Union whereas the CIS fragmented and became a very loose association of states.