Eurasian Integration—Challenges of Transcontinental Regionalism

This book examines the major economic and political transitions currently taking place in the Eurasian continent. Libman and Vinokurov provide a detailed account of various aspects of Eurasian integration, looking at both its bright side (trade, investments and joint infrastructure) and dark side (trafficking humans and drugs and the spread of diseases) and linking it to waves of 'Eurasian exchanges' in the past. The authors explore how political reality adapts and shapes the changing networks of economic interconnections and delineate a concept of 'pragmatic Eurasianism' necessary for understanding these linkages and sharply contrasting to the heavily ideological views of Eurasia that often dominate the political and social discussions.

EVGENY VINOKUROV is 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.

ALEXANDER LIBMAN is Assistant Professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Senior Research Fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Researcher at the East China Normal University. Publications have appeared in Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Comparative Economics and Review of International Political Economy.