The Post-Soviet Space: From the USSR to the Commonwealth of Independent States and Beyond

Kobrinskaya, Irina

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“…Overall, it seems to be a consensus among the students of the FSU economic space that most of these projects are notorious for having fallen far short of their declared goals, even failing to abide by agreements and agreed road maps for their implementation (Kobrinskaya, 2007). Specifically, while the goals of the CIS already include the establishment of a fully fledged economic union, so far the region has failed to set up even a free trade area; only the latest attempt at a customs union (the 2010 project of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan – actually the second attempt at a customs union within this group) is appearing to move towards the implementation stage, although past experience calls for caution.…”

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Regional Integration and Economic Convergence in the Post‐Soviet Space: Experience of the Decade of Growth

Libman

Vinokurov

2011

J of Common Market Studies

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This paper examines the dynamics of regional integration and economic convergence in the post-Soviet world during the period 1999-2008. This is the period, when FSU countries experienced rapid economic growth, following the "Big Bang" of the disintegration of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and the deep economic recession of the 1990s. It starts by discussing a set of indicators reflecting various aspects of interaction of post-Soviet countries (trade, labor migration, integration in key functional markets and economic convergence in different areas) and examines the dynamics of these indicators for the whole region and sub-groups of countries, as well as potential causes and conclusions to be drawn. In addition, it looks at the clusters of regional integration and economic convergence using the hierarchical cluster analysis and attempts to identify the reasons for their formation. We find that during the period studied the trade integration experienced a negative trend, but at the same time we observe an unprecedented expansion of labor migration -thus suggesting that integration of factor flows can outperform integration of markets for goods and services. Finally, clustering processes of the post-Soviet states for the economic convergence and for the economic integration seems to be unaffected by each other.

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Section: Post‐soviet Regionalism and Regionalizationmentioning

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Regional Integration and Economic Convergence in the Post‐Soviet Space: Experience of the Decade of Growth

Libman

Vinokurov

2011

J of Common Market Studies

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“…However, while recent studies suggest that authoritarian regimes are becoming increasingly integrated, older studies, including insights from failed integration among former Soviet states present a conflicting image of authoritarian cooperation, suggesting that the absence of democracy acts as a significant centrifugal force (Allison 2008;Bohr 2004;Collins 2009;Haas 1966). Rather than facilitate cooperation, similar authoritarian political systems act as a barrier, supported by the poor results of post-Soviet regional integration since 1991 (Kobrinskaya 2007;Olcott, Åslund and Garnett 1999;Vinokurov and Libman 2012).…”

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The Eurasian Economic Union: the geopolitics of authoritarian cooperation

Roberts

2017

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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Understanding cooperation among authoritarian regimes remains a puzzle for researchers; in particular, those working in post-Soviet Eurasia. Research suggests that autocrats are becoming increasingly coordinated in their efforts to thwart democracy, with authoritarian-led regional organizations offering an effective vehicle to extend autocrat time horizons. In contrast, older studies, including insights from failed regional integration among former Soviet states, suggest that the absence of democracy limits cooperation, although in both cases there is a lack of detail on the mechanisms enabling or constraining relations between autocrats. This article addresses this shortcoming by developing a theoretical framework based around autocrat survivability or "regime security" and applying it to the important case of the newly formed Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), drawing on original interview data with experts and stake-holders in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia. The argument forwarded in this article is that concerns over regime security create antagonistic cooperation drivers. In the case of the EAEU, regime security provides a strong explanation for the inability of member states to coordinate policy. The implication is that future studies should pay close attention to the way the material and ideational aspects of authoritarian rule combine to drive, but also limit relations between autocrats.

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“…In contrast to most of the existing researches, which referred mostly to political (the Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS) (Obydenkova & Libman, 2019;Czerewacz-Filipowicz & Konopelko, 2017;Kubicek, 2009;Kobrinskaya, 2007) or economic (the Eurasian Economic Union, EAEU) (Vinokurov, 2018;Libman, 2020;Tar, 2016;Dragneva, 2018) realms of regional governance in post-Soviet Eurasia, the security realm embedded in CSTO drew less scholarly attention (with some exemptions: Golub & Golub, 2018;Wietz, 2014;Bescotti, 2018). Therefore, our study introduces the first attempt to tackle the gap of the insufficient research attention assigned to the study of regional governance in post-Soviet Eurasia.…”

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“The Major Geopolitical Disaster” as the Prerequisite for the Post-soviet Regional Security Governance

Davidzon¹

2021

Regional Security Governance in Post-Soviet Eurasia

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On April 25, 2005, during his annual statement to the Federal Assembly (the upper house of the Russian parliament), President Vladimir Putin defined the collapse of the Soviet Union as "a major geopolitical disaster of the century." (Annual Address to the Federal Assembly, 2005). This statement by the Russian President about 15 years ago was, to a large extent, resented in the West. Thus, for instance, the former President of the European Council, Donald Tusk at the conference in Batumi, Georgia, called in turn the collapse of the Soviet empire a "blessing" event for all peoples of Eastern and Central Europe (Dzekish, 2019). Nevertheless, regardless of the political connotation of Putin's statement, it is clear that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was a "watershed," that forced the former Soviet republics to redefine their relations with the countries of the world, in general and among themselves, in particular.During the Soviet period, all 15 republics were part of a single large state, conducting all areas of activity subject to the regulations of the central government in Moscow. As of the mid-1980s the politicaleconomic situation in the Soviet Union began to deteriorate. Internal unrest within the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) against "Perestroika" promoted by the first and last Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, culminated in the failed coup attempt by the Party's hard-liners on August [19][20][21] 1991. Against this background on December 8, 1991 at the meeting in the Belarusian Belovezhskaya

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The Post-Soviet Space: From the USSR to the Commonwealth of Independent States and Beyond

Cited by 10 publications

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Regional Integration and Economic Convergence in the Post‐Soviet Space: Experience of the Decade of Growth

Regional Integration and Economic Convergence in the Post‐Soviet Space: Experience of the Decade of Growth

The Eurasian Economic Union: the geopolitics of authoritarian cooperation

“The Major Geopolitical Disaster” as the Prerequisite for the Post-soviet Regional Security Governance

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