The European Union and Russia's Integrationist Policies in the Post-Soviet Space

March 2011 | #09

by: Tomislava Y. Penkova
Research Fellow on Russia and EU Eastern neighbours
Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Milan
pp: 30
ISSN: 2038-632X

Since 1991, Russia has been searching for a niche for itself in the new European (Western) system. The various integrationist projects it has pro-moted in the post-Soviet space (Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Economic Community, Collective Security Treaty Organization, Shanghai Cooperation Organization) suggest that it also seeks to create a system of its own there. This regional design, however, clashes with the European Union's regional policies such as the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership. Tensions are heightened by the new in-dependent states as well, which often experienced periods of state weak-ness, economic instability and persistence of unresolved conflicts, exposing their vulnerability to external forces. The result of these dynamics is...

2011 ASN World Convention
14^th – 16^th April,
New York (USA)

Our institute organises 2 panels

On the occasion of the 16^th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), which takes place in New York next April 14^th – 16^th April, 2011, the Istituto per l’Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica (IECOB) will organise two panels.