Federalism, Integration and Multilevel Governance in Eurasia

The collapse of the Soviet Union initiated a set of integration and disintegration processes betweenand within the new independent states of Eurasia. Thus it created a perfect playground forcomparing and studying the co-evolution of different forms of interaction between governments.The aim of this book is to analyze different projects of multi-level governance created after thedissolution of the hierarchical Soviet system, including decentralization in individual post-Sovietcountries and development of post-Soviet regionalism and regional integration in a unifiedframework, combining elements of international political economy and economics of endogenousdecentralization. The book also looks at the third form of integration, which has been virtuallyignored by the literature so far: the vivid regionalization based on investments of Russian andKazakhstan multinationals in the post-Soviet countries. It, finally, shows that the development ofmulti-level governance had a profound impact on both success of reforms in the former SovietUnion and specifics of economic policy pursued by the main actors in the region.... Mehr