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Eurasian Integration The View
from Within
As Eurasiabecomes more important to theworld, with growing interest from
neighbouring and international powers, there are increasing attempts to give
institutionalformtoeconomicandsecuritylinkswithintheregion.Thisbook
includes a range of substantive work from scholars based in the region,
offering contrasting perspectives on the process of Eurasian integration and
its place in the world. Chapters consider economic, political, social and
securitydevelopments,with notable studies of the majorcountries involvedin
the development of the Eurasian Economic Union. The work also examines
the connections between the region and China, greater Asia and the Eur-
opean Union. It outlines the varying dynamics, with populations growing in
Central Asia while at best stagnant elsewhere. The book discusses the
increasing strategic significance of the region and explores how the new post-
Soviet states are growing in national cohesion and political self-confidence.
Above all, the book examines the concept of ‘Eurasia’, outlining the debates
about the concept and how various aspects of the legacy of ‘Eurasianism’
contribute to contemporary plans for integration. The book argues that
althoughregionalintegrationisverymuchapopularideainourage,withthe
potential for economic benefits and increased international influence, in
practice contemporary projects for Eurasian integration have been highly
ambiguous and contested. Nevertheless, significant steps have been taken
towards the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union. The book analyses
developments to date, noting the achievements as well as the challenges.
Piotr Dutkiewicz isa Professorof Political Science and Directorof the Centre
for Governance and Public Policy at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the
University of Kent and an Associate Fellow, Chatham House.
Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
1 Liberal Nationalism in 7 The Telengits of
Central Europe Southern Siberia
Stefan Auer Landscape, religion and
knowledge in motion
2 Civil-Military Relations in Agnieszka Halemba
Russia and Eastern Europe
David J. Betz 8 The Development of Capitalism
in Russia
3 The Extreme Nationalist Threat Simon Clarke
in Russia
The growing influence of 9 Russian Television Today
Western Rightist ideas Primetime drama and comedy
Thomas Parland David MacFadyen
4 Economic Development 10 The Rebuilding of
in Tatarstan Greater Russia
Global markets and a Putin’s foreign policy towards
Russian region the CIS countries
Leo McCann Bertil Nygren
5 Adapting to Russia’s New 11 A Russian Factory Enters the
Labour Market Market Economy
Gender and Claudio Morrison
employment strategy
Edited by Sarah Ashwin 12 Democracy Building and Civil
Society in Post-Soviet Armenia
6 Building Democracy and Civil Armine Ishkanian
Society East of the Elbe
Essays in honour of 13 NATO-Russia Relations in the
Edmund Mokrzycki Twenty-First Century
Edited by Sven Eliaeson Aurel Braun
14 Russian Military Reform 23 The Colour Revolutions in the
A failed exercise in defence Former Soviet Republics
decision making Successes and failures
Carolina Vendil Pallin Edited byDonnacha ÓBeacháin
and Abel Polese
15 The Multilateral Dimension in
Russian Foreign Policy 24 Russian Mass Media and
Edited by Elana Wilson Rowe Changing Values
and Stina Torjesen Edited by Arja Rosenholm,
Kaarle Nordenstreng and
16 Russian Nationalism and the
Elena Trubina
National Reassertion of Russia
Edited by Marlène Laruelle
25 The Heritage of Soviet
Oriental Studies
17 The Caucasus
Edited by Michael Kemper and
An introduction
Stephan Conermann
Frederik Coene
26 Religion and Language in
18 Radical Islam in the Former
Post-Soviet Russia
Soviet Union
Brian P. Bennett
EditedbyGalinaM.Yemelianova
19 Russia’s European Agenda and 27 Jewish Women Writers in the
Soviet Union
the Baltic States
Janina Šleivyte. Rina Lapidus
20 Regional Development in 28 Chinese Migrants in Russia,
Central and Eastern Europe CentralAsiaandEasternEurope
Development processes and Edited by Felix B. Chang and
policy challenges Sunnie T. Rucker-Chang
Edited by Grzegorz Gorzelak,
John Bachtler and 29 Poland’s EU Accession
Maciej Sme˛tkowski Sergiusz Trzeciak
21 Russia and Europe 30 The Russian Armed Forces
Reaching agreements, in Transition
digging trenches Economic, geopolitical and
Kjell Engelbrekt and institutional uncertainties
Bertil Nygren Edited by Roger N. McDermott,
Bertil Nygren and
22 Russia’s Skinheads Carolina Vendil Pallin
Exploring and rethinking
subcultural lives 31 The Religious Factor in Russia’s
Hilary Pilkington, Elena Foreign Policy
Omel’chenko and Alicja Curanovic´
Al’bina Garifzianova
32 Postcommunist Film – Russia, 40 Managing Ethnic Diversity
Eastern Europe and in Russia
World Culture Edited by Oleh Protsyk and
Moving images Benedikt Harzl
of postcommunism
Edited by Lars Kristensen 41 Believing in Russia
Religious policy
33 Russian Multinationals after communism?
From regional supremacy to Geraldine Fagan
global lead
Andrei Panibratov 42 The Changing
Russian University
34 Russian Anthropology After the From state to market
Tatiana Maximova-Mentzoni
Collapse of Communism
Edited by Albert Baiburin,
43 The Transition to National
Catriona Kelly and
Armies in the Former Soviet
Nikolai Vakhtin
Republics, 1988–2005
Jesse Paul Lehrke
35 The Post-Soviet Russian
Orthodox Church
44 The Fall of the Iron Curtain and
Politics, culture and
the Culture of Europe
Greater Russia
Peter I. Barta
Katja Richters
45 Russia After 2012
36 Lenin’s Terror
FromPutintoMedvedevto
The ideological origins of early Putin–continuity,change,
Soviet State violence
orrevolution?
James Ryan
Edited by J.L. Black and
Michael Johns
37 Life in Post-Communist Eastern
Europe after EU Membership 46 Business in
Edited by Donnacha Ó Post-Communist Russia
Beacháin, Vera Sheridan and Privatisation and the limits
Sabina Stan of transformation
Mikhail Glazunov
38 EU-Russian Border Security
Challenges, (mis)perceptions 47 Rural Inequality in
and responses Divided Russia
Serghei Golunov Stephen K. Wegren
39 Power and Legitimacy 48 Business Leaders and New
Challenges from Russia Varieties of Capitalism in
Edited by Per-Arne Bodin, Post-Communist Europe
Stefan Hedlund and EditedbyKatharinaBluhm,Bernd
Elena Namli MartensandVeraTrappmann
49 Russian Energy and Security up 55 Punk in Russia
to 2030 Cultural mutation from the
Edited by Susanne Oxenstierna ‘useless’to the ‘moronic’
and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen Ivan Gololobov, Hilary
Pilkington and
50 The Informal Yngvar B. Steinholt
Post-Socialist Economy
Embedded practices 56 Chechnya at War and Beyond
and livelihoods Edited by Anne Le Huérou,
Edited by Jeremy Morris Aude Merlin, Amandine
and Abel Polese Regamey and Elisabeth
Sieca-Kozlowski
51 Russia and East Asia
Informal and 57 The Russian Presidency of
gradual integration Dmitry Medvedev, 2008–12
Edited by Tsuneo Akaha and The next step forward or merely
Anna Vassilieva a time out?
J.L. Black
52 The Making of Modern
Georgia, 1918–2012 58 Fashion and the Consumer
The first Georgian Republic Revolution in
and its successors Contemporary Russia
Edited by Stephen F. Jones Olga Gurova
53 Digital Russia 59 Religion, Nation and
The language, culture Democracy in the
and politics of new South Caucasus
media communication Edited by Alexander
Edited by Michael S. Gorham, Agadjanian, Ansgar Jödicke and
Ingunn Lunde and Evert van der Zweerde
Martin Paulsen
60 Eurasian Integration – The View
54 Eastern Christianity and Politics from Within
in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Piotr Dutkiewicz and
Edited by Lucian N. Leustean Richard Sakwa
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Eurasian Integration The View
from Within
Edited by
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with consulting editors Sergei Glazyev,
Fyodor Lukyanov, Feng Shaolei,
Bulat Sultanov and Pavel Andreev
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Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
1.EurasianUnion.2.Eurasia–Economicintegration.3.Eurasia–Foreign
economicrelations.4.Euraisa–Foreignrelations.5.Eurasia–Strategic
aspects.6.Regionalism–Eurasia.I.Dutkiewicz,Piotr,editorofcompilation.
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Contents
List of illustrations xi
List of contributors xii
Acknowledgements xix
Maps xxi
Introduction: Eu–Ru–Asian integration? 1
PIOTRDUTKIEWICZ
1 Challenges of Eurasian integration 12
RICHARDSAKWA
2 Eurasianism as a ‘philosophyof nation’ 31
VALERIYBADMAEV
3 Eurasianism as an idea, civilizational concept and
integration challenge 46
ALEXEIPODBEREZKINANDOLGAPODBEREZKINA
4 Eurasian economic union: achievements and prospects 61
SERGEIGLAZYEVANDSERGEITKACHUK
5 Russia and the Eurasianunion 84
SERGEIGLAZYEV
6 Kazakhstan and Eurasian integration 97
BULATSULTANOV
7 Belarus between the EU and Eurasian Economic Union 111
ELENAKOROSTELEVA
8 Ukraine: between Europe and Eurasia 126
VLADIMIRFESENKO
