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This chapter presents a concise overview of the history of the post-Soviet integration that began in 1991. We start with the disintegration processes of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s. We describe the mechanisms of the “civilized divorce” between the former republics of the Soviet Union. We then identify the newly independent states’ first attempts to secure major trade, economic, and infrastructure ties with one another, including several false starts. We discuss in depth the path from the establishment of the Customs Union Commission and the enactment of the Common Customs Tariff to the signing of the agreement to create the Single Economic Space. Finally, we look at the EAEU Treaty that came into effect in 2015.
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Cited in: Nurymbetova and Kudaibergenov (2010). P. 15.
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Nazarbayev (2012).
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The idea of an “integration core” for Eurasian integration is quantitatively based on the first issue of the “System of Indicators of Eurasian Integration” (Vinokurov et al. 2009).
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Gleason (2004).
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There is a widely accepted theoretical argument that crises hinder integration because the level of protectionism rises in a crisis. We will provide evidence for the opposite hypothesis: economic crises can be a catalyst for integration processes if there are close ties between the countries and a lack of real political and economic alternatives (Vinokurov and Libman 2014).
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Vinokurov, E. (2018). The History of Eurasian Integration: 1991–2016. In: Introduction to the Eurasian Economic Union. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92825-8_1
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