Eurasian Integration: Challenges of Transcontinental Regionalism

by Sven Erik Nordholm, Yee Hong Leung

Overview

The Eurasian continent, which has for over a century lagged behind in global markets, is currently gaining economic and political momentum. This book investigates emerging economic linkages in the area, examining the factors shaping this integration, the benefits and risks involved, and the future of these states on the global stage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230302686
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/15/2012
Series:	Euro-Asian Studies Series
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

EVGENY VINOKUROV is Director of the Centre for Integration Studies at the Eurasian Development Bank. He has written and edited a number of monographs and papers on economic and political integration, including A Theory of Enclaves and The CIS, the EU and Russia: Challenges of Integration.

ALEXANDER LIBMAN is Assistant Professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Senior Research Fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Researcher at the East China Normal University. Publications have appeared in Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Comparative Economics and Review of International Political Economy.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures and Boxes vii

Acknowledgements ix

Abbreviations x

1 Introduction 1

Part I The Concept of Eurasian Integration

2 The Scope of Eurasian Integration 9

3 The Waves of Eurasian Exchange 30

4 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration in Eurasia 44

Part II Emerging Eurasian Economic Linkages

5 Spaghetti, Noodle and Lapsha: Continental Bias in Trade in Eurasia 65

6 Factor Flows in Eurasia: Mutual Investments, Evolving Eurasian Multinationals and Fragmented Labour Markets 74

Part III Infrastructure of Eurasian Integration

7 From a Trans-European and Trans-Asian to a Trans-Eurasian Vision of Transport Corridors 93

8 Borderless Energy: Common Electric Power Markets 118

9 Telecommunications Links across the Continent 127

Part IV Integration through Mutual Problems

10 Transborder Ecological Issues on the Continent 141

11 'Shadow Integration': Trafficking of Drugs, People and Arms, and the Effects of Microbes and Epidemics 151

Part V Formal Intergovernmental Cooperation

12 Variations between Political Systems 161

13 Integration of Large States 174

14 Sub-Regional Aspects of Eurasian Integration 187

Part VI Northern and Central Eurasia: The Successor of the Post-Soviet Area

15 From Post-Soviet to Eurasian Integration 201

16 Central Asia at the Crossroads: A Laboratory of Eurasian Integration 213

17 Conclusion 227

Appendix: Basic Macroeconomic Indicators of Eurasian Countries 231

Notes 234

Bibliography 246

Index 263