This chapter is devoted to a historical review of the post-Soviet regional governance. Before addressing this subject, however, we should examine and define what post-Soviet Eurasia means and which states are included in this space. Accordingly, we start our examination with a review of different approaches to defining the region, as developed in the scholarly literature in the post-Soviet period. The definition of region is important to our understanding which regional organizations are included in the boundaries of post-Soviet Eurasia, and not less important, which are not. Hence, we start our discussion with the question: What is post-Soviet Eurasia?This chapter moves on to briefly review the events that preceded the outbreak of the Soviet empire. We assume that the Soviet Union dissolution was a catalyst for reshaping of relations among the new independent states within the post-Soviet region. Afterwards, we will review the history of the first regional organization, established by the post-Soviet republics-CIS, which was supposed to lay down the foundations of regional governance in political, security and economic realms. The rest of the chapter will be dedicated to the history of the regional economic governance embedded in EAEU. Such discussion of the main milestones of regional governance establishment in general and in economic realm in particular seems to be essential for our comprehension of the historical

This chapter is a concluding discussion on the main findings of the book. Our discussion proceeds as follows: First, we review the emergence of CIS, EAEU and CSTO representing different realms of regional governance in post-Soviet Eurasia and summarize our main findings regarding specific drivers for their establishment and features of cooperation within them; Secondly, we consider the cooperation pattern of the allies within CSTO and draw conclusions on the implications of the cooperation on the functioning of security governance in post-Soviet Eurasia. Finally, we discuss possible directions for conducting further research on the topic in the future.Our international system could be regarded as a system of regions (Katzenstein, 2005). Different regions, consisting of states with different interests and preferences, may have different features of regional governance, embedded in regional organizations. Following the logic of the rational choice theory of institutionalism, the diversity of states' interests and preferences creates cooperation problems. Therefore, the specific form of cooperation within regional alliance reflects a functional response to common action problem confronted members of organization relating to interests and preferences of allies. In other words, an institution should provide a mechanism to overcome the cooperation problem. Accordingly, cooperation problems are essential for understanding of institutional features and pattern of cooperation. The interests and preferences of

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