... held in reserve. The official strategy was aimed at integrating Russia, on its own terms, into the Euro-Atlantic community, i.e. expanded West. The G8 membership symbolized that. The other was to integrate former Soviet republics into a full-fledged Eurasian Union: an economic, political, and security alliance, a Moscow-led power center in Eurasia.
Today, the first strategy is a complete failure; the second one, limited to economics and without Ukraine, qualifies as only a most moderate success.
...
On March 12, 2015, in Paris the
Institut francais des relations internationals
,
Latvian Institute of International Affairs
and Latvian Embassy in France held an invitees-only seminar “
Eastern Partnership and Eurasian Union: Colliding or Matching Strategies and Interests?
” attended by international experts, French and EU government executives, diplomats and businessmen.
RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov spoke on opportunities for interaction of ...
Describing the project of the Eurasian Union Vladimir Putin referred to the successful integration experience of the EU. It is not about feasibility of the EAU what I am concerned with. Putin's project has indeed close resemblance to the European one, but do we need a blueprint?...
... revive the Central Asian integration process but the initiative is still too early to assess.
Report “
Russia’s Interests in Central Asia:
Contents, Perspectives, Limitations
”
As for the integration of Central Asian states in the Eurasian Union, many steps appear positive, while I believe they lack the element of good faith. How can one strive towards large-scale integration with insufficient trust and cooperation on a lower inter-regional level? As part of the Eurasian Union,...
... piece published by the Economist, in addition to gas blackmail, Russia is planning to tighten the screws on the Russian businesses of Ukrainian oligarchs, who have been calling for European integration, in an effort to corral Ukraine into Kremlin-led Eurasian Union. Short-sighted and quintessentially imperialistic, this policy will push Ukraine even further from Russia instead of forcing Kiev into submission. To achieve its ends, the Kremlin needs to recalibrate its understanding of Russia-Ukraine ...
... Middle East, North Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region, which prompted Moscow to prioritize a more insular approach. In 2009 Putin accelerated the creation of the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, and in 2011 suggested establishing the Eurasian Union. The Common Economic Space bringing the three countries together has formally in operation since 2012.
Even with Moscow’s renewed impetus, this integration process is only likely to succeed if Russia and its partners concentrate on ...
Will the Eurasian Union be a success?
The most obvious reasons for the creation of the Eurasian Union are the economic needs of the participants in the unification process. However, the success of the future Union will largely depend on how united a single information ...
The fate of the Union State
The fate of the Belarus-Russia Union State continues exciting the Russian and Belarusian political classes. With the arrival of the integration project, the Customs Union as one Common Economic Space (CU-CES), should be transformed into the Eurasian Economic Union by 2015, the question of the future of Russian-Belarusian state becomes of particular importance.
The Belarus-Russia Union State occupies a unique place in the line of integration projects in the former Soviet...
Eurasian Labor Market Formation Risks for Russia
The CIS countries’ joining the Eurasian Union will lead to changes in the migration management principles in the region and increase the number of legal migrants to Russia. This will result in considerable advantages for employers and foreign workers, while also increase the risks ...
... turn has spurred the growth of nationalist sentiment against integration with Russia. Accordingly, Kazakhstan, as its official representatives have stated, needs time to adapt its economic and social system to integration with Russia.
Prospects of the Eurasian Union
In principle the failure to sign a treaty would not lead to any negative consequences. On the contrary, it would offer an opportunity to elaborate on respective documents. As is shown by the previous experience of the development of post- ...
