Federalism, Integration and Multilevel Governance in Eurasia

The collapse of the Soviet Union initiated a set of §integration and disintegration processes between§and within the new independent states of Eurasia. §Thus it created a perfect playground for§comparing 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 the§dissolution of the hierarchical Soviet system, §including decentralization in individual post-Soviet§countries and development of post-Soviet regionalism §and regional integration in a unified§framework, combining elements of international §political economy and economics of endogenous§decentralization. The book also looks at the third §form of integration, which has been virtually§ignored by the literature so far: the vivid §regionalization based on investments of Russian and§Kazakhstan multinationals in the post-Soviet §countries. It, finally, shows that the development of§multi-level governance had a profound impact on both §success of reforms in the former Soviet§Union and specifics of economic policy pursued by §the main actors in the region.