The CIS trade regime can be characterised as a mix of, partly overlapping, weak, bilateral, subregional, and multilateral agreements. This is a result of the design of the CIS, which was explicitly constructed to allow its member states to participate in only those parts that they deemed in...

Ukraine's policy towards Russia since independence in 1991 has been characterised by a predicament: how to protect sovereignty in the context of its heavy economic dependence on Russia, which was intent on Ukraine's participation in Russian-led integration projects. In this article we argue that...

Until recently regional integration in the post-Soviet space had been largely declarative. However, the latest initiative, the Eurasian Customs Union (ECU) appears more viable because of: first, a better institutional framework; second, a commitment to implementation followed by actual action...