The CIS, the EU and Russia

Introduction PART I: IN PURSUIT OF INTEGRATION IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE The Post-Soviet Space: From the USSR to the Commonwealth of Independent States and Beyond; I.Kobrinskaya Russian Approaches to Integration in the Post-Soviet Space in the 2000s; E.Vinokurov Russia's Pursuit of its Eurasian Security Interests: Weighing the CIS and Alternative Bilateral-Multilateral Arrangements; J.Willerton & M.Beznosov PART II: THE EU AND THE POST-SOVIET SPACE The Clash of Integration Processes? The Shadow Effect of the Enlarged EU on its Eastern Neighbours; T.Casier EU Policies towards Russia: Secondary Integration by Association?; H.Moroff EU- Russia Relations in EU Neighbourhood Policies; M.Vahl PART III: PATTERNS OF INTEGRATION Parallels and Divergences of Integration in Ukraine and Belarus; L.Verpoest Patterns of Integration and Regime Compatibility: Ukraine between the CIS and the EU; R.Dragneva & A.Dimitrova Integration by Absorption: New Subjects for the Russian Federation; G.Kurdiukov & K.Malfliet The EU-Russia Common Economic Space and the Policy-Taker Problem; E.Vinokurov Conclusion: Challenges of Integration: the EU, the CIS and Russia