Eurasian integration: elite perspectives before and after the Ukraine crisis

Alena Vysotskaya Guedes Vieira

Post-Soviet Affairs, 2016, vol. 32, issue 6, 566-580

Abstract: A European scholar explores the changing dynamics of integration processes within the Eurasian Customs/Economic Union in the new context created by the Ukraine crisis. The article examines positions adopted by member states Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus before and after onset of the crisis in Ukraine. Several rationales for justifying the Union are derived from international relations theory and documented in the rhetoric of actors from these three countries. The evolution of conflicting rhetorical postures mirrors a slowdown of the Eurasian integration process and growth in the bargaining leverage of Belarus and Kazakhstan vis-à-vis Moscow.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2015.1118200

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