Federalism, Integration and Multilevel Governance in Eurasia

The collapse of the Soviet Union initiated a set of
integration and disintegration processes between
and within the new independent states of Eurasia.
Thus it created a perfect playground for
comparing and studying the co-evolution of different
forms of interaction between governments.
The aim of this book is to analyze different
projects of multi-level governance created after the
dissolution of the hierarchical Soviet system,
including decentralization in individual post-Soviet
countries and development of post-Soviet regionalism
and regional integration in a unified
framework, combining elements of international
political economy and economics of endogenous
decentralization. The book also looks at the third
form of integration, which has been virtually
ignored by the literature so far: the vivid
regionalization based on investments of Russian and
Kazakhstan multinationals in the post-Soviet
countries. It, finally, shows that the development of
multi-level governance had a profound impact on both
success of reforms in the former Soviet
Union and specifics of economic policy pursued by
the main actors in the region.

Autorentext
Alexander Libman, Cand.Sc.: Economics (Russian Academy of Sciences). Senior research fellow at Institute of Economics (Moscow), PhD candidate at University of Mannheim and research fellow at East China Normal University. Research: political economics of international alliances and federations, political economics of non-democracies.

Klappentext
The collapse of the Soviet Union initiated a set of integration and disintegration processes between and within the new independent states of Eurasia. Thus it created a perfect playground for comparing and studying the co-evolution of different forms of interaction between governments. The aim of this book is to analyze different projects of multi-level governance created after the dissolution of the hierarchical Soviet system, including decentralization in individual post-Soviet countries and development of post-Soviet regionalism and regional integration in a unified framework, combining elements of international political economy and economics of endogenous decentralization. The book also looks at the third form of integration, which has been virtually ignored by the literature so far: the vivid regionalization based on investments of Russian and Kazakhstan multinationals in the post-Soviet countries. It, finally, shows that the development of multi-level governance had a profound impact on both success of reforms in the former Soviet Union and specifics of economic policy pursued by the main actors in the region.