PART I: BASIC CONCEPTS -- Searching for Holding-Together Regionalism -- The Dynamics of Holding-Together Regionalism -- PART II: POST-SOVIET INTEGRATION -- Institutional Integration: 20 years of Post-Soviet History -- Economic Actors and Regionalization -- Convergence and Divergence of Economic and Social Development -- The Political Economy of Post-Soviet Integration -- Sub-National Actors in Post-Soviet Integration -- PART III: KEY AREAS -- Holding Together of Falling Apart: Results of the Gravity Equation of CIS Trade -- Cross-Border Investment: General Trends through the 2000s -- Financial Markets and the Banking Sector -- Trans-Eurasian Transport Corridors -- Towards a CIS Common Electric Power Market -- CIS Telecommunications Sector: the Rise of the Multinationals -- Agriculture in the CIS: Departing from the Soviet Past -- Labour Migration -- PART IV: AN INTERTWINED REGION -- The Foreign Policies of Russia and Kazakhstan: Post-Soviet Regionalism and Power Balance -- Post-Soviet Space, Central Asia and Eurasia -- Issues for the Next Decade
Summary
An in-depth analysis of one of the most important and complex issues of the post-Soviet era, namely the (re- )integration of this highly interconnected region. The book considers the evolution of 'holding-together' groups since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, looking at intergovernmental interaction and informal economic and social ties
