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What is Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC)

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Regional Integration and Future Cooperation Initiatives in the Eurasian Economic Union
A regional organisation between 2000 and 2014, which aimed for the economic integration of its member states. The organisation originated from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on 29 March 1996, with the treaty on the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Community signed on 10 October 2000 in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana by Presidents Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, Askar Akayev of Kyrgyzstan, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan. Uzbekistan joined the community on 7 October 2005; however, it later withdrew on 16 October 2008.
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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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