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The Eurasian Project and Europe The Eurasian Project and Europe Regional Discontinuities and Geopolitics Editedby David Lane EmmanuelCollege,UniversityofCambridge,UK Vsevolod Samokhvalov WolfsonCollege,UniversityofCambridge,UK Selectionandeditorialmatter©DavidLaneandVsevolod Samokhvalov2015 Individualchapters©Respectiveauthors2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-47295-3 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. 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Contents ListofTablesandFigures ix PrefaceandAcknowledgements x NotesonContributors xii ListofAbbreviations xv Part I Introduction 1 EurasianIntegrationasaResponsetoNeoliberal Globalization 3 DavidLane Themovetoneoliberalismandglobalization 4 Divergentpathstotheworldeconomy 5 TheEurasianalternative 6 Theambiguityofregionalism 11 Threepossiblescenarios 12 Furtherdecline 12 TheEuropeanUnionmodel 13 Eurasiaasaregionalcounterpoint 16 Theriseofregionalblocs 17 Theriseof‘counterpoints’ 19 Conclusion 20 Part II EurasianismPastandPresent 2 TheEurasianVectorofRussia’sDevelopment 25 OvseyShkaratan Globalcivilizationandlocalcivilizations 26 ThehistoricalrootsofRussianspecificity 28 RussiainthecontextofEurasianism 30 Post-socialisttraceofEurasia’simpactanditsimplications forthefuture 33 3 TheAsiaticRootsandRootednessoftheEurasianProject 38 PrajaktiKalraandSiddharthSaxena TheSilkRoadrevisited 38 Eurasianism 39 v vi Contents AnAsianaffair 41 TheEurasianUnion 42 Conclusion 47 4 EurasianIntegration:AProjectforthe21stCentury? 53 RichardSakwa ThechordsofEurasianintegration 54 GreaterEuropeandEurasianintegration 57 Russianneorevisionism 60 Barkingupthewrongtree? 64 Conclusion 68 Part III EurasianismUnderPutin 5 EurasianismandPutin’sEmbeddedCivilizationalism 75 RaySilvius Criticalhistoricism:Discursivespaceandgeoeconomic/ geopoliticalreality 76 TypologiesofEurasianism 77 Embeddedcivilizationalism 80 EmbeddingcivilizationsintheForeignPolicyConcepts oftheRussianFederation 82 Conclusion 84 6 Putin’sEurasianDialectic 89 PaulBenjaminRichardson Adialecticapproach 89 TheendofEurasia:AEuro-Pacificalternative 90 Aneo-Eurasianvision:Empire,territory,ideology 91 Putin’sEurasia 93 Conclusion 97 7 IdeologyandInterestsinPutin’sConstructionofEurasia 102 PeterJ.S.Duncan Putin’sproposalforaEurasianUnion 103 Eurasianistthought 104 ThecontextofPutin’sEurasianturn:RussiaandtheWest 106 Theideologicalcontext 107 IntegrationprojectsbeforetheEurasianUnion 109 TheimpactoftheEurasianUnionproposal 111 Conclusion 113 Contents vii 8 EurasiaasDiscursiveLiterarySpaceattheMillennium 117 TatianaFilimonova SourcesofEurasiaasdiscursivespace 118 VanZaichik’sandKrusanov’sforaysintoEurasianism 119 EurasianismandthemythofRussia’suniqueness 121 Eurasianistalternativehistories 122 SymphonicpersonalityinTheGreedyBarbarian 124 EurasianistOrientalism 125 Conclusion 128 Part IV EurasiaasaRegion:ProblemsofIntegration 9 EuropeanUnionEmulationintheDesignofIntegration 135 RilkaDragnevaandKatarynaWolczuk Institutionaldesignandemulation 137 TheCommonwealthofIndependentStatesEconomicUnion 137 TheCustomsUnionof1995 137 TheEurasianEconomicCommunity 138 TheCommonEconomicSpaceof2003 139 TheEurasianCustomsUnionandtheSingleEconomicSpace 140 Explainingemulation 143 Regionalismasa‘scriptofmodernity’ 143 Proximityof,andfamiliaritywith,theEuropeanmodel 144 ConcertedpositioningoftheEurasianEconomicUnion asarivaltotheEuropeanUnioninthepost-Sovietspace 145 Conclusion 147 10 EconomicDevelopmentsandInstitutionalObstacles totheEurasianProject 153 RuslanDzarasov TheconceptofEurasianintegration 153 AdvantagesanddisadvantagesoftheCustomsUnion 157 TheEurasianconceptandvulnerabilityoftheperipheries 159 Thechangingdivisionofnationalincome 161 Therulingclassandaccumulationinapost-Sovietsociety 162 Conclusion:Eurasianintegrationand‘TheNewGreatGame’ 164 11 UkraineandEurasianRegionalism:ACaseof HoldingTogetherIntegration 169 VsevolodSamokhvalov Introduction 169 TheperiodofthepragmatistapproachtoEurasian integration(1991–1999) 170 viii Contents Theperiodofpoliticization(2002–2003) 172 OrangeUkraineandpiecemealinvolvement(2005–2009) 173 Post-Orangepoliticization(2010–2014) 175 Humanfactorsandlackoftrust 178 Post-YanukovichUkraine 179 Conclusion 180 Part V EurasianIntegrationinInternationalContext 12 TheEuropeanUnionandRussia:Prospectsfor CohabitationintheContestedRegion 187 ElenaA.Korosteleva Introduction:Incompatiblesubjectivities? 187 Theanalyticsofgovernment:Aframework 188 Theanalyticsofgovernment:Aframeworkandapractice 189 Discoursesofknowledge 191 Technologies 192 Subjectivities 193 Fieldsofvisibility 193 TheEuropeanUnionandEurasia:Afit-for-purposerecourse? 194 Discoursesofknowledge 194 Technologiesofpower 196 Subjectivitiesofpower 197 Fieldsofvisibility 198 Conclusion:TheEasternPartnershipregionasamissing variable 199 13 RolesandRealitiesinRussianForeignPolicy 203 P.N.Chatterje-Doody Introduction 203 Elitediscourse 204 Institutionaloverlapin‘Eurasia’ 205 ThediscursivespaceofEurasia 207 ThegeopoliticalrealityofEurasia 209 Conclusion 212 Index 218 Tables and Figures Tables 3.1 TrendsinturnoverwithintheCustomsUnion 44 3.2 CommoditytradedeficitsintheCustomsUnion 46 3.3 Belorussianforeigntradestatistics,particularlywiththeEU andCIS 46 Figures 1.1 Worldsystem:core,semicorecounterpointsandperiphery 19 3.1 ImportsandexportsfromKazakhstantoCustomsUnion 45 10.1 Percapitagrossdomesticproduct/grossnationalincome (GNI)andHumanDevelopmentIndex(HDI)ranksinthe SovietUnion(1987)andtheformerSovietUnionrepublics (2012).Ranksareshownindescendingorder 161 13.1 Russia’soverlappinginstitutionalmemberships 206 ix
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