Authoritarian Regionalism in the World of International Organizations Global Perspective and the Eurasian Enigma

Anastassia V. Obydenkova, Senior Research Fellow, Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow,Alexander Libman, Professor of Social Sciences and Eastern European Studies, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich

Anastassia V. Obydenkova is a Co-Director of the research project 'Regionalism and Regional International Organizations in a Fragmented World', co-funded by the Fung Global Fellows Program at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies of Princeton University and by the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University. She is also a leading research fellow at the National Research University's Higher School of Economics, and a research affiliate at the Institute for Economic Analysis of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research. Her previous publications include Causes and Consequences of Democratization (with A Libman, Routledge, 2015).

Alexander Libman is Professor of Social Sciences and East European Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. His research focuses on Russian subnational politics, regional organizations in the post-Soviet Eurasia, historical legacies in post-Communist politics and comparative authoritarianism. He was awarded the Knut Wicksell Prize from the European Public Choice Society, Gordon Tullock Prize from the Public Choice Society and Ovsievich Memorial Prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences. His previous publications include Causes and Consequences of Democratization (with A Obydenkova, Routledge, 2015).