Holding-Together Regionalism

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.

ALEXANDER LIBMAN is an assistant professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany, Senior Research Fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Researcher at the East China Normal University. His principal publications have appeared in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Comparative Economics and Review of International Political Economy.

EVGENY VINOKUROV is the director of the Centre for Integration Studies at the Eurasian Development Bank. He has written and edited a number of monographs and papers on economic and political integration, including A Theory of Enclaves and The CIS, the EU and Russia: Challenges of Integration.

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
Conclusion