Eurasian Economic Union from the Russian Perspective

Zarei, Ghaffar; Abbasi, Esmaeil

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Ghaffar Zarei ¹
Esmaeil Abbasi ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Political Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Lamard Branch

² PhD Candidate, Political Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Lamard Branch

Abstract

The establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union strengthened Russia's position in bilateral relations towards other members of the union, although the multilateral relations between post-communist countries remained without progress. Establishing Eurasian Economic Union to some extent also has fulfilled the geopolitical ambitions of Moscow, but the determination of the geopolitical agenda for this union by Moscow, despite the presence of members with the primary objective of economic interests, will not be easy. This is despite the fact that Russia has incurred considerable costs to establish this union and has pursued the policy of "luring by subsidizing". The main question of this article is "what does Russian expect to gain through in vesting on the establishment and expansion of the Eurasian Economic Union, considering the fact bilateral agreements with post-Soviet governments provides this country with more economic benefits?” The hypothesis tested under the framework of the new regionalism theory is: "although Russia's primary goal by establishing and expanding the Eurasian Economic Union is to strengthen a geopolitical deploy against the West at the borders of the European Union at the expense of exorbitant costs in order to keep these countries away from the west, it has not over looked the benefits of a long term economic, social and cultural cohesion of this union in the post-Soviet space". The study is descriptive-analytical and methodology applied to analyze the collected data is causal.

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Eurasian Economic Union from the Russian Perspective

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Volume 24, Issue 104
February 2019
Pages 33-60

Eurasian Economic Union from the Russian Perspective

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Volume 24, Issue 104February 2019Pages 33-60

Volume 24, Issue 104
February 2019
Pages 33-60