Eurasian Integration: A Viable New Regionalism?

Author(s): David Lane
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 146
Pages: 3-7
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2014

The project of a Eurasian Union can be considered as a response to the consequences of neo-liberal globalisation, which led to economic and moral decline in the countries forming the Commonwealth of Independent States. It is part of a more general movement in world politics towards regionalisation. Possible developments are discussed in terms of three scenarios: isolation from the world economy; a stepping stone to further integration in the world economy; and a more autonomous counter-point within the world economy. The third variety would only be possible with concurrent stronger linkages to the BRICS countries and the Shanghai Cooperative Organisation.

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