The Commonwealth of the Independent States as an Organization of Missed Opportunities: Civilized Divorce
Following the collapse of the USSR, the post-Soviet states applied their foreign policy and solved economic and military problems in cooperation with one another. They established the Commonwealth of the Independent States and the other integration associations, both within and beyond the CIS. This...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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President of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, North-West Institute of Management
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Евразийская интеграция: экономика, право, политика |
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| Online Access: | https://www.eijournal.ru/jour/article/view/95 |
| Summary: | Following the collapse of the USSR, the post-Soviet states applied their foreign policy and solved economic and military problems in cooperation with one another. They established the Commonwealth of the Independent States and the other integration associations, both within and beyond the CIS. This article deals with the problems of integration of the post-Soviet states. It discovers the main reasons why the CIS failed to grow in a very integration union. The authors believe that the main cause was a short-foresighted policy of the Russian leadership under the presidency of Boris Yeltsin and the reluctance of Commonwealth states to be bound by obligations. |
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| ISSN: | 2073-2929 |