Post-Soviet Constitutions and Challenges of Regional Integration: Adapting to European and Eurasian Integration Projects

ISBN-13: 9780367875466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str.

Roman Petrov; Peter Van Elsuwege

Opis

Aiming to map out the constitutional challenges deriving from the European and Eurasian integration processes and identify options for reform to ensure post-Soviet countries’ effective participation in those processes, this book studies the implications of ongoing regional integration projects for the constitutional orders of post-Soviet countri

Spis treści

Introduction

Part 1. European and Eurasian integration initiatives: constitutional challenges

1. The evolution of constitutionalism in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe: some lessons for the post-Soviet space

2. Protecting the rule of law in post-Soviet states: the relevance of European and Eurasian integration

3.The Eurasian Economic Union: balancing sovereignty and integration

4.The Association Agreements between the EU and Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine: constitutional issues of sovereignty and legitimacy

Part 2. Constitutional orders of the post-Soviet countries and their adaptability to European and Eurasian integration

5.The constitutional order of Ukraine and its adaptability to the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

6.The constitutional order of Georgia and its adaptability to the EU-Georgia Association Agreement

7.The constitutional order of Moldova and the challenge of multi-vector integration

8.From European integration process to the Eurasian Economic Union. The case of Armenia

9.The constitutional order of Belarus and its adaptability to the Eurasian Economic Union. A ‘living constitution’ workaround

10.The constitutional order of the Russian Federation and its adaptability to European and Eurasian integration projects

11.The constitutional order of Kazakhstan and its adaptability to the Eurasian Economic Union

Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Roman Petrov is Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at the National University of 'Kyiv-Mohyla Academy', Ukraine.

Peter Van Elsuwege is Professor in EU Law at Ghent University, Belgium.