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. INDICE: PART I: THE CONCEPT OF EURASIAN INTEGRATION.The Scope of Eurasian Integration.The Waves of Eurasian Exchange.Top-down and Bottom-up Integration in Eurasia.PART II: EMERGING EURASIAN ECONOMIC LINKAGES.Spaghetti, Noodle and Lapsha: Continental Bias in Trade in Eurasia.Factor Flows in Eurasia: Mutual Investments, Evolving Eurasian Multinationals and Fragmented Labour Markets.PART III: INFRASTRUCTURE OF EURASIAN INTEGRATION.From a trans-European and trans-Asian to a trans-Eurasian vision of Transport Corridors.Borderless Energy: Common Electric Power Markets.Telecommunications Links Across the Continent.PART IV: INTEGRATION THROUGH MUTUAL PROBLEMS.Transborder Ecological Issues on the Continent.'Shadow Integration': Trafficking of Drugs, People and Arms, and the Effects of Microbes and Epidemics.PART V: FORMAL INTERGOVERNMETNAL COOPERATION.Variations Between Political Systems.Integration of Large States.Sub-RegionalAspects of Eurasian Integration.PART VI: NORTHERN AND CENTRAL EURASIA: THE SUCCESSOR OF THE POST-SOVIET AREA.From Post-Soviet to Eurasian Integration.Central Asia at the Crossroads: a Laboratory of Eurasian Integration.Conclusion.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-30268-6
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 28/09/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido