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Towards a Eurasian Economic Union: the challenge of integration and unity. CEPS Special Report No. 75/December 2012

Blockmans, Steven. and Kostanyan, Hrant. and Vorobiov, Ievgen (2012) Towards a Eurasian Economic Union: the challenge of integration and unity. CEPS Special Report No. 75/December 2012. UNSPECIFIED.

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    Abstract

    In the lead-up to the creation of a Eurasian Economic Union in 2015, the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan represent two elements of the most ambitious regional integration project launched in the post-Soviet era since 1991. This CEPS Special Report examines both the potential and the limits of Eurasian economic integration. For the purpose of assessing the Eurasian integration process, CEPS applied a modified version of a framework first developed by Ernest B. Haas and Philippe C. Schmitter in 1964 to project whether economic integration of a group of countries automatically engenders political unity. Taking the data available for the early stages of the European integration process as a benchmark, the results for the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space point to a rather unfavourable outlook for Eurasian economic integration.

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    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > External relations > EU-Asia-general
    EU policies and themes > External relations > EU-Eurasian Economic Union
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > CEPS Special Reports
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 11 Jan 2013 11:31
    Number of Pages: 38
    Last Modified: 03 Apr 2015 10:26
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/38965

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