Russia's attempts to create a single economic space with other post-Soviet states proceed against the background of these states' engagement with other regional entities, European Union in particular. Liberal scholars argue for mutual complementarity of diverse regional integration arrangements....

Ukraine's choice of European association and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU over membership in the Eurasian Customs Union (ECU) advocated by Russia has plunged the country into chaos and led to the most serious security crisis in Europe since the end of the Cold...

The paper looks at regional integration projects in the postcommunist Eurasia, defined as the former Soviet space plus China, from the point of view of Russia's foreign policy design and implementation. The foreign policy is the main vehicle to project the country's perceptions of itself...

Almost immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, its newly independent states started reaching out to their neighbors in an attempt to join in the already established alliances and regional groupings of states. Moreover, they sought to recreate some sort of an interstate economic union...

The issue of energy security is being reviewed from a standpoint of geopolitics. The contention is that geopolitics is inescapably related to the question of energy security for a simple reason: the contradiction between the universal character of energy demand and the nation-state’s exclusive...

At the APEC summit in 2012 Russia announced a “new track” in economic diplomacy to accelerate its integration with Asia Pacific. Russia’s pivoting toward Asia proceeds in parallel to the creation of the Eurasian Union it wants to lead. Russia’s support of new regionalism in Eurasia and...

The chapter discusses Russia’s role in regional integration processes in Central Eurasia, focusing on the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in particular. It starts by juxtaposing realist and liberal interpretations of regional economic integration of the former Soviet states. It then proposes...