Federalism, Integration and Multilevel Governance in Eurasia : Intergovernmental Relations across and within National Borders in the Post-Soviet Space

ISBN-13: 9783639127041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str.

Alexander Libman

Opis

The collapse of the Soviet Union initiated a set of integration and disintegration processes betweenand within the new independent states of Eurasia. Thus it created a perfect playground forcomparing 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 thedissolution of the hierarchical Soviet system, including decentralization in individual post-Sovietcountries and development of post-Soviet regionalism and regional integration in a unifiedframework, combining elements of international political economy and economics of endogenousdecentralization. The book also looks at the third form of integration, which has been virtuallyignored by the literature so far: the vivid regionalization based on investments of Russian andKazakhstan multinationals in the post-Soviet countries. It, finally, shows that the development ofmulti-level governance had a profound impact on both success of reforms in the former SovietUnion and specifics of economic policy pursued by the main actors in the region.

O autorze

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.