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...

The authors turn to the large family of institutions that came into existence in post-Soviet Eurasia (and, in some ways, beyond it) over the last two decades. The researchers review their current state, agenda, real and perceived mandate, and their respective achievements and constraints. The...

The chapter discusses Russia’s role in regional integration processes in Central Eurasia, focusing on the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in particular. It starts by juxtaposing realist and liberal interpretations of regional economic integration of the former Soviet states. It then proposes...

The report “Eurasian Economic Integration – 2017” reflects the directions, events and decisions that determine the current vectors of integration processes in the Eurasian Economic Union. The authors offer fresh data and analytical insights with respect to: macroeconomic development;...

The EU is losing its glamour and it is in danger of losing its appeal as the promise of perpetual prosperity is fading away. It is not anymore the EU that would attract people to defend it on barricades. The first decade of the 21st century may be a ‘lost decade' for reforms in the EU, while...

This paper addresses two central questions for Asia and the world: (1) What is the purpose of Asian regional policy coordination going forward? (2) Will Asian regional policy coordination substitute or complement global policy coordination? The paper examines the potential coverage and content...

This paper reviews the progress in trade-related areas of ASEAN Economic Community to be established by 2015. It provides empirical evidence and qualitative analysis on how the process of trade integration worked and what could have been done for it to have worked better. Where appropriate it...

Theories of economic integration refer to the benefits of creating a free trade area (trade creation effect, the effect of shifting trade flows). While observing the economic reality, it seems that it is difficult to limit the benefits of integration agreements only to the issues of foreign...

This paper examines new trends in regional integration of developing countries. They are a transition from the policy of old regionalism to the policy of new regionalism with the predominance of the model of "industrial regionalism"; preferential notification within the WTO in accordance with...

Regional economic integration is back in vogue following the "stumble" in the Doha Round in July 2008. Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are driving this trend in Asia and the Pacific as well as in Central and South America, and the sheer volume of PTAs is striking. In the 1990s there were...