Holding-Together Regionalism: Twenty Years of Post-Soviet Integration

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 1-8

3. Basic Concepts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Searching for Holding-Together Integration

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 11-23

   3. The Dynamics of Holding-Together Integration

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 24-33

4. Post-Soviet Integration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Institutional Integration: Twenty Years of Post-Soviet History

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 37-53

   3. Economic Actors and Regionalization

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 54-71

   4. Convergence and Divergence of Economic and Social Development

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 72-85

   5. The Political Economy of Post-Soviet Integration

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 86-100

   6. Sub-National Actors in Post-Soviet Integration

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 101-107

5. Key Areas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Holding Together or Falling Apart: Results of the Gravity Equation of CIS Trade

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 111-119

   3. Cross-Border Investment: General Trends through the 2000s

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 120-128

   4. Financial Markets and the Banking Sector

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 129-139

   5. Trans-Eurasian Transport Corridors

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 140-144

   6. Towards a CIS Common Electric Power Market

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 145-156

   7. CIS Telecommunications Sector: The Rise of the Multinationals

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 157-163

   8. Agriculture in the CIS: Departing from the Soviet Past

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 164-168

   9. Labour Migration

      • Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov

      Pages 169-178

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.

• financial markets
• Import
• political economy
• regionalization
• trade
• transport

• Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  Alexander Libman

• Centre for Integration Studies, Eurasian Development Bank, St. Petersburg, Russia

  Evgeny Vinokurov

Alexander Libman is 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 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 (2007) and The CIS, the EU and Russia: Challenges of Integration (2007).

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