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The Eurasian Economic Union and Integration Theory

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Authors:
  1. Mikhail Mukhametdinov

    1. Department of Foreign Languages, Samara College for the Humanities, Samara, Russia

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  • Provides a comparison of the European Union with the Eurasian Economic Union from the perspective of four salient integration theories

  • Evaluates the utility of the EAEU in economic, political, cultural and geostrategic dimensions through a systematic comparison of the regional bloc with the EU

  • Analyzes Russia's role in the union and the general relationship with the West

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Analytical Framework for the Comparison of Regions

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    Pages 1-35

  3. Economic Integration

    • Mikhail Mukhametdinov
    Pages 37-73

  4. Structural Factors

    • Mikhail Mukhametdinov
    Pages 75-105

  5. Overcoming Cultural Barriers?

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    Pages 107-149

  6. External Factors and Geostrategic Considerations

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    Pages 151-185

  7. Conclusion

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    Pages 187-205

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 207-209
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About this book

This book evaluates the utility of the Eurasian Economic Union in economic, political, cultural and geostrategic dimensions. It does so through a systematic comparison of the bloc with aspects of the European Union along a number of criteria derived from integration theory. The book concludes that the EAEU is a useless undertaking, at least for Russia, in any of the integration dimensions discussed. This is so because of the inherent properties of the region, and also because of the behaviour of the member states in the context of Russia’s resistance to the West. Besides, the principles of liberal economics, endorsed by the union, contribute to asymmetries in development among its member states. In addition to a symbolic event spotlighting Russia’s regional leadership, the union appears mainly as a shop where gas is sold below market prices, and as an import base of unskilled labour for Russia in conditions of Russia’s high unemployment and underemployment. Concurrently, the book discusses Russia’s grievances with the West, which have been inducing and constraining Eurasian integration at the same time.

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  • Department of Foreign Languages, Samara College for the Humanities, Samara, Russia

    Mikhail Mukhametdinov

About the author

Mikhail Mukhametdinov is adjunct professor at the Samara College for the Humanities, Russia. He is formerly head of applied linguistics and foreign languages at this school and visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and Harvard University’s Davis Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is the author of Mercosur and the European Union: Variation and Limits of Regional Integration, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

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