Introduction / Renata Dwan -- Trade initiatives in Central Asia: the Economic Cooperation Organization and the Central Asian Economic Community / Richard Pomfret -- GUUAM: the maturing of a political grouping into economic cooperation / Oleksandr Pavliuk -- The Customs Union of Five and the Russia-Belarus Union / Vyachaslau Paznyak -- Russian regions in subregional cooperation / Natan M. Shklyar -- Russian policies and non-policies toward subregional projects around its borders / Pavel K. Baev -- Subregional cooperation and security in the CIS / Roy Allison -- Energy development and transport network cooperation in Central Asia and the South Caucasus / Friedemann Müller -- Ethnicity and subregional relations: the role of the Russian diasporas / Pål Kolstø -- Islam, transnationalism, and subregionalism in the CIS / Edmund Herzig -- Conclusion / Renata Dwan and Oleksandr Pavliuk -- Selected chronology of cooperative initiatives in and around the CIS, 1991-99
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The third and final volume of a collection of papers stemming from seminars and meetings which were held as part of a three-year research and policy project undertaken in 1996 by the EastWest Institute