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Przegląd Europejski – European Studies Quarterly

The European Union vs. the Eurasian Economic Union: “integration race 2.0”?

2019, 2019, No. 3

Svetlana Kucheriavaia

0000-0002-7846-6893

University of Łódź (Łódź, Poland)

University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland), Faculty of Political Science and International Studies

Andrey A. Kinyakin

0000-0003-4428-508X

Universty of Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany)

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.5846

Publication date

19.11.2019

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Social sciences

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international relations, economics and finance, communication and media studies, political science and public administration, management and quality studies, law, sociology

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English, Polish

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Abstract

One of the most remarkable features of regional development in Eurasia is the competition between the European Union (EU) and Russia within the so called “contested neighborhood”, e.g. the post-Soviet space. Originated in the 1990s it gained the special momentum in 2000s after the beginning of the Russia-led “Eurasian integration process”, leading to the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in 2015. That fact brought the competition between the EU and Russia to the new level, e.g. the “integration race”, which had the strong impact on the whole post-Soviet space. The most obvious outcome of that process is the outburst of the Ukrainian crisis in 2013, which on the one hand contributed to further exacerbation of the EU-Russia relations, on the other – it paved the way to elaboration of the new forms and tools of the integration activities. However, it failed to bring the “integration race” between the EU and the Russia-led EAEU to the standstill. Being in the latent “crystallisation” phase, this process goes further with the covert competition between the integration blocks. Its actors are not only the non-aligned post-Soviet states, but also the existing members of the integration structures. All the mentioned above factors makes the “new edition” of the “integration race” rather dangerous because further acceleration of such a competition can lead to the large-scale rivalry between the EU and the EAEU, which may cause unpredictable consequences.

Keywords:

European Union,Eurasian Economic Union (EAUE),integration,competition,‘integration race’,post-Soviet space,Eastern Partnership

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