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Chapter 2
Regional Integration and Future Cooperation Initiatives in the Eurasian Economic Union
An international organisation (international treaty) designed to regulate relations of cooperation between states formerly part of the USSR. The CIS was founded by the heads of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine by signing the “Agreement on the Creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States” on December 8, 1991 in Viskuly (Belovezhskaya Pushcha).
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Eurasian Regionalism: Specifics, Problems, and Prospects
Ekaterina Mikhaylenko (Ural Federal University, Russia) and Valeriy Mikhaylenko (Ural Federal University, Russia)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1950-9.ch002
Abstract
The term ‘Eurasia' is an ambiguous concept that includes in different studies: ‘Greater Eurasia', which is associated with the Eurasian continent; ‘Central Eurasia' as a post-Soviet space; and the term Eurasia can be associated with specific integration projects in Eurasia, such as Eurasian Economic Union. This chapter defines Eurasian regionalism and prospects for its development. Authors analyze modern scientific discourse around Eurasian integration and Eurasian regionalism. They examine modern approaches to regionalism and identify some of the distinctive features of the construction of regions.
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The Main Stages of Eurasian Integration Development
A regional organization established in 1991 by the former Soviet Republics. The organization promotes cooperation across the region in a wide range of issues from economics to politics and security. The organization also has some influence over trade, finance, social and cultural cooperation. There are nine countries are currently members of the CIS: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Published in Chapter: The Main Stages of Eurasian Integration Development; From: Regional Integration and Future Cooperation Initiatives in the Eurasian Economic Union
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