ABSTRACT

This chapter looks at the experience of both formal and informal regionalization in Eurasia, focussing on the post-Soviet states and the Eurasian Economic Union in particular. Regional integration in this part of the world does not follow in the footsteps of the West. By taking a defensive stance toward neoliberal globalization practices and ideologies, new regionalism in Eurasia blazes its own path of development. Resuscitation of mutually beneficial ties of the late Soviet era and the state-guided developmentalism of a market variety are two defining features of this phenomenon.