This book investigates the economic, political and cultural factors that influence regional economic integration processes as well as international political cooperation in the area of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The authors analyze market integration manifested in interregional trade, investment and service connections. Taking a constructivist approach, they shed new light on how national, ethnic, religious and linguistic factors as well as systems of government, political regimes and models of leadership shape foreign-policy decision-making in various post-Soviet countries.
This book investigates the economic, political and cultural factors that influence regional economic integration processes as well as international political cooperation in the area of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The authors analyze market integration manifested in interregional trade, investment and service connections. Taking a constructivist approach, they shed new light on how national, ethnic, religious and linguistic factors as well as systems of government, political regimes and models of leadership shape foreign-policy decision-making in various post-Soviet countries.
Offers an interdisciplinary approach to studying regional integration processes among post-Soviet countries Covers twelve countries, which were part of the Commonwealth of Independent States, throughout the period from 1991 to 2015 Takes into account various economic, political and cultural factors
Katarzyna Czerewacz-Filipowicz
The Commonwealth of Independent States Regional Economic Integration Regionalism Post-Soviet Area Eurasian Economic Union Neo-institutionalism CIS russian and post-soviet politics