We study the effects of trade barriers and the persistence of past linkages on trade flows in the former Soviet Union (FSU). Estimating a gravity equation on 1987-1996 trade among and between nine Russian regions and fourteen FSU republics, we find that Russian regions traded 60 percent more...

The aim of this article is to reevaluate some elements of literature on Central Asian regionalism through the prism of contemporary regionalism theories elaborated by international epistemic community of regional scholars. Firstly, it will briefly present contemporary regionalism as a phenomenon...